Farmers of Middlesex, read this and hand to your neighbors

Item Information

• Description
  Letter to "brother farmers" to vote for Luke Fiske, representative for Waltham, rather than to re-elect Edward Everett, the candidate of the monied Boston aristocracy, who'd advocated slavery on the floor of the national legislature. Luke Fiske possesses "a perfect acquaintance with the views, feelings and interest of the people...a farmer like ourselves..." Passed the "Warren Bridge bill", lowering the people's tax burden. "Educated at Harvard College...not...in foreign countries at the public expense."

• Item ID
  bdsma10784
• Source Collection
  Broadsides and Ephemera Collection
• Spatial Coverage
  United States
  Massachusetts
  Middlesex County (Mass.)
  Waltham (Mass.)
  Boston (Mass.)
  Lexington (Mass.)
• Language
  eng
• Title
  Farmers of Middlesex, read this and hand to your neighbors
• Extent
  1 scan
• Date
  1828-10-31
• Folder
  MA1
• Type
  Text
  broadsides
  advertisements
  circular letters
• Subject
  Political campaigns
  Elections
  Politics and government
  Speeches, addresses, etc.
  Agriculture
  Slavery
  Manners and customs
  Education

• Copyright & Usage
  None