Samuel Townsend's circular no. 2

Item Information

• Description
  Single-sided circular from prominent Delaware businessman Samuel Townsend, protesting the interference of church in state by the "Temperance hypocrites" and suggesting the need for a new party formed from "the honest and well disposed" of the Democratic and Whig parties. "Hypocrisy in politics in Delaware has become a science."

• Item ID
  bdsde10264
• Source Collection
  Broadsides and Ephemera Collection
• Spatial Coverage
  United States
  Delaware
  New Castle County (Del.)
  Appoquinimink Hundred (Del.)
• Language
  eng
• Title
  Samuel Townsend's circular no. 2
• Extent
  1 scan
• Date
  1850-1855
• Folder
  DE1
• Type
  Text
  circular letters
• Subject
  Politics and government
  Political campaigns
  Manners and customs

• Copyright & Usage
  None