John Tyler, Jr., Washington City, D.C., to Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1868

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Enclosed letters show he started a movement earlier this month [to persuade members of the electoral college to vote for Grant]; can prove that this summer he prevented a clash with Great Britain and laid to rest some of the civil disconent in the South; has been twice pardoned. 1 p. Cy of ALS. Including a Cy of ALS, from John Tyler, Jr., Washington, D.C., to John B. Gordon, Wade Hampton, Admiral Raphael Semmes, William Preston, J.W. Stevenson, C.C. Clay, John Forsyth, Robert Tyler, and others. 9 November 1868. Is enclosing a letteraddressed to other leading citizens [about the electoral colelge vote]; the predecents for the suggestion can be found in the electoral college votes in 1824, 1836, and 1840; thinks it expedient and necessary to maintain peace for the electoral college to vote unanimously for Grant. 3 pp. Also including a Cy of ALS, John Tyler, Jr., Washington, D.C., to Generals [Wade] Hampton, and [John B.] Gordon, [William] Prestong, I.W. Stevenson, C.C. Clay, Robert Tyler, and others, 8 November 1868. Recommends the Democratic part members of the electoral colelge cast their votes for Grant for the following purposes: as a conciliatory gesture, to show that if he is good to them they will support him, so he won't be left entirely in the hands of the Radicals, and to "strengthen" him in his conservative tendencies. 1 p.

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