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Five letters to Frederick Wolcott regarding family news and politics written from Washington, D.C. while he was serving in Congress.

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Huntington thanks Wolcott for his condolences on the death of unidentified woman; philosophizes about God, life, and death; criticizes Andrew Jackson’s intentions regarding the Supreme Court and the Bank of the United States and predicts a political storm.

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Thanks for recent correspondence; requests details of court proceedings; mentions subjects to soon appear before the house which include Native Americans, public lands, the judiciary, and the presidential elections; speculates on upcoming appointments and the status of the judicial branch; expects the charter for the Bank of the United States will expire.

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Discusses candidates for office and the possibility of his being nominated for a judgeship; mentions that the trial of the Houston is progressing slowly.

Scope and Contents Sends payment for a slip; calls the President's message "the most extraordinary document which he has ever signed"; mentions concessions to the South; confidence in the Bank of the US to be destroyed; public lands to be given to "all needy adventurers from every corner of the globe"; states that those who act together to preserve the union will not be "overawed wtih fear" and will sustain it as far as they can effect it and with it the interests in which they have contended for years;...

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Laments that he has nothing to report which would restore public confidence in the business of the Country; expects that the present bank will not be renewed nor will Congress charter a new one; discussion of banking committee resolutions is doubtful; compliments the style of Connecticut's resolutions which will be presented at the first opportunity.

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Cover of a letter sent to William Tuck, Collector in Gloucester Massachusetts.