Scope and Contents Bulk of this collection consists of materials received by Benjamin Franklin Copeland (1798-1863), a Boston merchant and Justice of the Peace for Roxbury, Mass., as Chairman of a Massachusetts political committee promoting the nomination of Daniel Webster for President of the United States in 1851-1852. The most significant items among the papers are letters written by prominent state congressmen, lawyers, and merchants discussing campaign tactics, the growth of the Free Soil Party in...