Whigs in Kentucky
Autograph letter signed Joseph Reed Ingersoll ("JR Ingersoll") to ("Gentlemen").
Philadelphia: October 4, 1842.
Price: $90.00
About the item
2 pp. pen and ink on bifolium. 4to. Whigs in Kentucky. Old folds, very good.
Item #249700
A partisan letter praising the spirit of the West and arrangements for an upcoming "Whig Festival," while disparaging President Tyler, whose unexpected rise to the presidncey after William Henry Harrison's sudden death left him aliented by both political parties.
Reading in part:”The arrangements for a Whig festival at or near Frankfort on the 26th of October announced in the letter with which you have honoured me, are new proofs of the genuine spirit of the West… if the spirit and policy which influence the Great West were reflected in the Executive as they are in the Legislature of the nation, there might be less occasion for unequivocal and impressive signals of popular sentiment…”
Philadelphian, Joseph Reed Ingersoll, was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress and was reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses, serving terms from 1835-1837 and 1841-1849. Ingersoll was an ardent supporter of Henry Clay, which may explain his sentiments in our letter towards fellow Whig, John Tyler, whose sudden ascent to the presidency was seen as a threat to Clay’s own presidential aspirations
Our letter is addressed to nine influential Kentucky Whigs who are listed at the bottom of the second page.
