"Albany, August 17, 1852. : Dear Sir: We desire to draw your attention, not to the importance of the approaching elections, state and national, for that we doubt not you already appreciate, but to the necessity of early and rightly directed efforts. ... A truthful and graphic, but brief Life of Gen. Scott has been published, in which the great services of our presidential candidate are plainly and candidly narrated. ... We ask, therefore, your immediate and active co-operation, in an effort to place the Life of Scott in the hands of all the electors of this state"@en
"Albany, August 17, 1852. Dear Sir: We desire to draw your attention, not to the importance of the approaching elections, state and national, for that we doubt not you already appreciate, but to the necessity of early and rightly directed efforts. ... A truthful and graphic, but brief Life of Gen. Scott has been published, in which the great services of our presidential candidate are plainly and candidly narrated. ... We ask, therefore, your immediate and active co-operation, in an effort to place the Life of Scott in the hands of all the electors of this state"@en