AUGUSTA, AUGUST 22, 1849. GENTLEMEN: THE COUNTY COMMITTEE, IN CONCURRENCE WITH THE STATE COMMITTEE, HAVE APPOINTED YOU TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE INTERESTS OF THE WHIG PARTY IN YOUR TOWN. A GREAT EFFORT IS MAKING BY THE WHIGS AND FREESOILERS OF THIS STATE TO CARRY THE LEGISLATURE...
[Kennebec, Maine? 1849]. Pale blue folio sheet, folded to [4] pages, printed on the first two pages. Final leaf filled with pencil numerical calculations. Very Good.
The recipients of this printed mailing were [names in manuscript] T.D. Millett, L. Lothrop, and J. Lane, the Whig Committee of the Town of Leeds. If "the present dominant party get the apportionment under their control, they will district the Whigs off the face of the State. Kennebec, especially, will suffer. Evidently referring to Democrats' dominance of Maine's Waldo County, the sheet warns, "The east half of our Congressional District will be carried by Waldo Locofocoism, and west half will be hid under the wing of Oxford. Whigs of Kennebec! are you ready for this?" Item #35303
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