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Bangor May 2[?] 1859

Hon Lot M Morrill

Governor of Maine

Sir

As the Indian Agency question will probably be considered by you at the next session of your Council & as I shall not be able to appear before you personally to urge my claim as a candidate for the office, I take this method of saying a few words directly to yourself in addition to what I wrote a few days since. I understand that there will be several applicants for the office besides myself and it may be represented to you by some of them or their friends that the office should be conferred upon a resident of Oldtown [Old Town]. I cannot see why this should be the case unless it has become the property of Oldtown [Old Town] by possession, some one that has held the office for a long service of years, and common fairness would seem to dictate that for a portion of the time at least it should be bestowed upon some other locality.  

On the ground of convenience there would be but little difference between there & here. By the B. O & M RRoad I have access to Oldtown [Old Town]