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Letter from Senator Samuel Pomeroy (R-KS) to Anna Dickinson (1867)


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Letter from Senator Samuel Pomeroy (R-KS) to Anna Dickinson (1867)

credit: Anna E. Dickinson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

In this letter to suffragist Anna Dickinson, dated October 31, 1867, Kansas senator Samuel Pomeroy proclaimed his fervent devotion to the cause of “Impartial Suffrage,” writing, “I have gone boldly—fearlessly—into the movement! And it must succeed!”