BIB_ID
108421
Accession number
MA 7179
Creator
Dresser, Horace, 1803-1877.
Display Date
1862 June 19.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)
Notes
Removed from Nicolay & Hay. Lincoln, v. 7.
Dresser is most likely referring to the Treaty between United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, also known as the Lyons-Seward Treaty, concluded on April 7, 1862.
Docketed.
Dresser is most likely referring to the Treaty between United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, also known as the Lyons-Seward Treaty, concluded on April 7, 1862.
Docketed.
Summary
Asking for the nomination for "the office of Judge of the Court of Mixed Commission under the new Slave trade Treaty with Great Britain"; adding "as my residence is the city of New York where one branch of the Court is located, I desire the nomination for that locality -- if that cannot be -- then I am ready to go to Africa"; writing that he is ready to provide "evidences of my ability and fitness for the office" and that he hopes his application will be favorably received.
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