Letter from Salmon Portland Chase, Washington, [D.C.], to James Miller M'Kim, Oct[ober] 31. 1868
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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Manuscript recto has two annotations, in pencil. At the top-left of the page reads "113", while the bottom-left reads "V 36, P 57".Salmon P. Chase writes James Miller M'Kim informing him that M'Kim's last letter was received, and that he had read the enclosed article with much interest. Chase encloses to M'Kim a check for the sum of $100 towards the "liquidate of the obligations" mentioned by M'Kim in his previous missive. Chase asserts his wish that the term "freedman" be "discontinued altogether" in preference for the term "citizen".
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- Abolitionists
- Antislavery Movements
- Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland) 1808 1873
- Correspondence
- Freedmen
- History
- Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis) 1830 1909
- M'kim, J. Miller (James Miller) 1810 1874
- Reconstruction (U.S. History, 1865 1877)
- Slaver
- Social Reformers
- United States
- United States Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands