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Collection Reference Number GLC07863.02
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to the 1860s 
Title Resolution of New Jersey Delegation
Date 16 May 1860
Author Vorhees, N.W. (fl. 1860)  
Document Type Government document
Content Description One manuscript page (in the hand of N. W. Voorhees, Secretary) in which the New Jersey Delegation responds to the Massachusetts Delegation's communication with a resolution of their own, instructing and informing the Delegates from Massachusetts that "William L. Dayton is the first choice of New Jersey, and that they can carry the State with him; and that the Delegation are not prepared at this present time to state what their second and third choice of Candidates may be." Validated as "A true copy," also in Voorhees' hand.
Subjects Republican Party  Election  President  Government and Civics  Politics  
People Vorhees, N.W. (fl. 1860)  
Place written Chicago
Theme Government & Politics; The Presidency
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945