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2 pp. Autograph Letter Signed. To his daughter Anne, probably in Morley, St. Lawrence County, New York, with a postscript to another relation named Thaddeus, possibly her husband. White was visiting Washington to handle the estate property of a deceased relative. A postscript for a man, was written in the heat of the presidential election campaign between the incumbent Grant and Democrat-endorsed liberal Republican, Horace Greeley. White was also perturbed by the sight of the large free Black population of the nation’s capital. The letter was written two weeks after the Democratic National Convention met in Baltimore and, in the expedient hope of defeating incumbent Republican President U.S. Grant, endorsed New York newspaper mogul Horace Greeley, nominee of a splinter group of Liberal Republicans. He was concerned that Thaddeus might vote for Grant and his vice presidential running mate, Massachusetts Senator Henry Wilson a veteran Abolitionist. “…what think of the Democratic Candidate? I never thought the democracy of old St. Lawrence. would go Greely. Old boy! ‘tell it not in Gath, nor publish it in the Streets of Ashkelon.’ Or neither in nice little Morley. Grant is losing ground, and I hope there will be some other middle man to step in between them. Some strong man, and I hope you won’t vote for negro Wilson, the man that has done so much to marry us to the negro race. Let your little Village be overrun by negro hosts as it is here, and the locust tribe will strip you clean. They would differ from the worms, not leave the midrib, they clean all when they do anything.”