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Primary document
Title:
Letter from Hinton R. Helper to Benjamin S. Hedrick, October 15, 1856:
Electronic Edition.
Author: Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909
Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the
electronic publication of this title.
Text transcribed by
Bari Helms
Images scanned by
Bari Helms
Text encoded by
Brian Dietz
First Edition, 2005
Size of electronic edition: ca. 8K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2005
The electronic edition is a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill digital
library, Documenting the American South.
Languages used in the text:
English
Revision history:
2005-10-24, Brian Dietz finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick Papers (#325), Southern Historical Collection,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Letter from Hinton R. Helper to Benjamin S. Hedrick, October 15, 1856
Author: H. R. Helper
Description: 2 pages, 2 page images
Note:
Call number 325 (Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill)
Editorial practices
The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
Originals are in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
Page images can be viewed and compared in parallel with the text.
Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.
All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as '.
All em dashes are encoded as —.
Indentation in lines has not been preserved.
For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see the section Editorial Practices.
The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
Originals are in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
Page images can be viewed and compared in parallel with the text.
Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.
All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as '.
All em dashes are encoded as —.
Indentation in lines has not been preserved.
For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see the section Editorial Practices.
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New York, Oct. 15, 1856
Bravo! You are right. Stand firm, and friends will gather around you. I have not the pleasure of
your acquaintance, but it would do me good to take you by the hand and tell you how glad I was to
find that my dear old native State has at least one fearless patriot within her borders. Here are
tens of thousands of men in the state, who entertain views similar to those expressed in your
letter, but they dare not open their mouths. A remarkably free country! Fremont
will probably get 50,000 majority in this state. "The work
goes bravely on". If the election could be postponed six or eight months I have no doubt
several of the Southern States would bring out an
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Electoral ticket in favor of something free — say, free speech, free soil, free labor, free
presses, free schools, or Fremont
.
will probably get 50,000 majority in this state. "The work
goes bravely on". If the election could be postponed six or eight months I have no doubt
several of the Southern States would bring out anPage 2
.In the faith, Very Truly, yours &c,