Letter from Edward S. Buffum to Samuel Downer accepting his invitation to the reunion

Letter from Edward S. Buffum to Samuel Downer accepting his invitation to the reunion

This letter is from Edward S. Buffum to Samuel Downer. Buffum acknowledges receipt of his invitation to the reunion of the Free Soil Party and accepts it. The then reminisces about the events that took place in 1848, particularly the stigma placed on party members and the fact that they are now thought to have saved the country.

Downer, Samuel, 1807-1881

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Buffum, Edward S.

Hingham Public Library

1877 August 3

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Hingham (Mass.)

1848

1877 August 9

Hingham Public Library

Chelsea  August 3^d. 1877. 

Samuel Downer Esq.

Dear Sir.

Your invitation to visit Melville Gardens on the 9^th of August to attend a Reunion of the Free Soilers of 1848 is just received, and I take great pleasure in accepting it. The noble and unselfish Band of Free Soilers who in 48 arrested the onward march of the Slave Power, and who at that time were stigmatized as Fanatics and one Idea men, are now universaly[sic] recognised as the Salt that saved our Country, and have made it what it is, free in fact as well as name. 

                                Yours with great respect.

                                              Edward S. Buffum.

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