Miscellaneous items from Brander, Williams, and Co. (New Orleans) to Douglas, regarding the marketing of cotton. The collection also includes a letter from Douglas to William Alexander Richardson, an Illinois delegate to the Democratic Party conventions at Charleston, S.C., and Baltimore, Md., 1860. Douglas writes that he has "no hope for the preservation of the Union, except by a faithful and rigid adherence to the doctrine of non Intervention by Congress with Slavery in the Territories," and offers to withdraw his name if the delegates could unite behind another non-intervention, Union-loving Democrat.
