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**Item Description:**
Up for sale is an exceptional, historically significant **1832 stampless folded letter** sent from Moorsburg (Columbia County), Pennsylvania, to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
This is an extraordinary primary resource documenting the localized political warfare, media suppression, and voting alignment during the explosive **1832 Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay Presidential Election**.
**Exceptional Historical Content:**
The letter is datelined "Moorsburg Columbia Co Sept 7th 1832" and signed by **Abner Moore**. Writing directly to **George P. Wiestling**, Moore describes a subscription dispute regarding the *Pennsylvania Intelligencer* that reveals dirty political tactics:
* **Jacksonian Dominance:** Moore notes that prior to the election, his neighborhood was partisan, supporting Andrew Jackson and PA Governor George Wolf *"fundamentally at that time allmost to a man."*
* **Media Mail Tampering:** Moore notes that prominent local politician Gen. Daniel Montgomery originally ordered the anti-Jackson paper to expose locals to different viewpoints. However, Moore writes that the papers stopped arriving because they were likely **stolen out of the mail by local political rivals**, stating: *"few of them found their way to my family (I suppose apprehended from the Post office by other persons) as our office has been conducted in a very loose way."*
* **1832 Election Climate:** Moore highlights the isolation of being an opposition voter, writing: *"I have stood almost alone in politics since Jackson become a candidate."* He notes that while anti-Jackson men were too intimidated to hold public assemblies (*"we were not able to get up a Anti-Jackson meeting in opposition to the Jackson boys"*), political tides were finally shifting in favor of the Anti-Jackson Electoral ticket (headed by Joseph Ritner, spelled here as "Ritcher").
**Postal Markings & Details:**
* **Postmark:** Highly distinct, elegant manuscript town cancel reading "Moorsburg Sept 18".
* **Rate Marker:** Bold, crisp manuscript "10" cent single-sheet zone rate stamp.
* **Reverse Side:** Features original folding creases, a clean split at the original opening wax seal point (leaving all letter text intact), and vintage accounting notations.
**Condition:**
Superb antique condition given its age of nearly 200 years. Complete folded letter sheet. The ink remains deeply dark, starkly crisp, and completely legible. Beautiful presentation piece for collectors of early American political history, Jacksoniana, or Central Pennsylvania postal history. Please review the high-resolution photos for full condition details.
Ships securely in a rigid mailer with tracking.
Complete Transcript of the LetterMoorsburg Columbia Co Sept 7th 1832To Geo. P. WiestlingDear Sir,Yours was recd addressed to M. Cadwallader relative to your demands for the Pennsylvania Intelligencer.Some short time previous to the last Presidential election Genl. Daniel Montgomery stated my consent to receive the Intelligencer that we might receive some correct information as he alleged with regard to politics (Jackson politics fundamentally at that time allmost to a man) my name was given for the paper & General Montgomery engaged to satisfy the demand and discontinue the paper at the end of the first year— the spring following Cadwallader removed from the County since that time after I went from home on business and have been from home the most part of two years, at the same time thinking the paper would be discontinued It appears the paper was not discontinued although for some reason few of them found their way to my family (I suppose apprehended from the Post office by other persons) as our office has been conducted in a very loose way. If there has been no remittance by Genl. Montgomery the Account stands against me although I have not recd perhaps half the papers. I submit the matter to the generosity of the Editors— different Editors of the Intelligencer. It is for them to say how much I ought to pay under the circumstances as above stated. Please forward me the conclusion of the matter and I will endeavor to remit payment the first opportunity perhaps through an Assemblyman.I have stood almost alone in politics since Jackson become a candidate, in our neighbourhood Jackson & wolf when all the talk, Jackson matters are changing although we were not able to get up a Anti-Jackson meeting in opposition to the Jackson boys, yet it is confidently believed that Ritcher will have a large majority in our district— Let the Intelligencer be endorsed with my proper name for the future.I am Dear Sir your most Obedient &cAbner Moore
