Signatures gathered by the New York Kansas Relief Committee to "call for a public meeting to be held on the 12th day of December to consider what action shall be taken" to aid settlers in Kansas during the drought which began in June 1859. Signatories include William Cullen Bryant, Horace Greeley, Hiram Ketchum, John A. Stevens, John Earl Williams, Isaac H. Bailey, and several others.
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