THE WHITE SLAVE
Two nearly identical stereoview albumen prints, mounted side-by-side on cardstock. Oblong 7" x 3-1/4." Applied paper title-- "The White Slave" -- and publisher/vendor label on verso. Housed behind glass in a nice wooden contact print frame [not examined out of frame]. Very Good. In each print, a young African-American man is dressed to the nines in boldly checked and striped pants, frock coat, large top hat, and expensive shoes. A young white boy shines his shoes. The setting indicates dissatisfaction with Emancipation and Republican Reconstruction. Many whites, North and South, experienced Reconstruction, not as an effort to elevate Blacks to first class citizenship; but as a reversal of fortune for whites, diminishing their social and economic status, displaced by upstart African Americans. The Library Company describes this rare double print as follows: "Stereograph, possibly published in London, depicting a scene satirizing race relations in America. Shows the dandy standing and with one foot on the boy's shoe shine box in front of a back drop depicted as a wall adorned with broadsides referencing abolition, slavery, and emancipation. The dandy is attired in striped and checkered pants, a jacket with tails, a ruffled shirt, and top hat. He holds a walking stick under one arm and a cigarette in his other hand. The boy kneels and shines the dandy's shoes with his shining supplies and tools by his box. Broadsides include a "playbill" reading "Adelphi. Tonight The White Slave. Octoroon Farce" and an advertisement for "Fast Clipper. Clyde. For New Orleans." Other posts read "No Slavery. Freedom" and "Great Meeting. Negro Emancipation. Poor Slaves." The Adelphi, the Library Company points out, was a London theater; hence, the possible attribution to a London source. On the other hand, the hub of the Clyde Steamship Company, founded in 1874, was New York City, equally suggesting the possibility of a New York imprint. LCP P.2014.29 on line.
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ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD IN WASHINGTON, JULY 2, 1881
Pages [968]-989, as issued. Original printed title wrappers and staples. Numerous illustrations. Light but persistent tide mark to upper right quadrant. Good+. The story of the assassination, Garfield's awful medical ordeal, and his biography. McDade 399. THE POLITICAL “SIAMESE” TWINS. THE OFFSPRING OF CHICAGO MISCEGENATION
Lithograph broadside, 13-1/2" x 17-3/4," on white wove paper. Mild edge toning, Very Good plus. "The unlikely teaming of military leader George B. McClellan with Peace Democrat (Copperhead) George Hunt Pendleton as presidential and vice presidential candidates in the 1864 election is ridiculed here. The artist charges McClellan with disloyalty to his former troops by virtue of a 'peace at any price' campaign" [Reilly]. Like the Circus performers Chang and Eng, Barnum's famous Siamese Twins, the two are inextricably bound together. Calling the Democrats' team, which was birthed at the Chicago Convention, "the offspring of Chicago Miscegenation" is a slap at the Democratic ticket for its constant hammering that the Republicans' emancipation policy will "mongrelize" the purportedly superior white race. Firmly attached by "The Party Tie" to Pendleton, McClellan apologizes to the two Union soldiers on his left, "It was not that I did it fellow Soldiers!! but with this unfortunate attachment I was politically born at Chicago." The soldiers, one with his arm in a sling, rebuke McClellan for tying himself "to a peace Copperhead, who says that Treason and Rebellion ought to triumph." Copperheads Clement Vallandigham and Horatio Seymour encourage Pendleton. Reilly 1864-19. Gale 5232. Weitenkampf page 144. OCLC 191120100 [2- Peabody-Essex, Clements], 950902713 [1- AAS], as of July 2023. THE GREAT TUMBLE BUG OF MISSOURI, BENT-ON ROLLING HIS BALL
Oblong folio broadside, 17-1/2" x 14." Hand-colored lithograph. Short closed tear and a few light fox spots at blank margins. Mounted to a thin board. Very Good. At upper margin: "N. Tom O' Logical Studies." "Tumblebugs roll manure into balls as large or larger than themselves. Female adults lay eggs in the balls and bury them to supply food for the larvae" [Garrett, The Dirt Doctor, on line article on the Tumble Bug] "A caricature of Missouri senator Thomas Hart Benton, as an insect rolling a large ball 'Expunging Resolution' uphill toward the Capitol. The print employs Benton's own metaphor of rolling a ball for his uphill campaign to have a March 1834 Senate censure of then-President Andrew Jackson stricken from the Senate journal. The censure had condemned Jackson's removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States as exceeding the President's constitutional power. "In the cartoon Benton says, 'Solitary and alone and amidst the jeers and taunts of my opponents I put this Ball in motion.' The quotation comes from Benton's 1834 speech given in the Senate, stating his intention to move to expunge the censure. Benton's campaign earned him scorn from the opposition and, initially, little support from friends of the administration. But his resolution was finally passed in January 1837. The cartoon must have appeared shortly after the successful vote, for the ball is inscribed with a 'List of the Black Knights,' which names the twenty-four senators who voted for the resolution" [Reilly]. Reilly 1837-14. Weitenkampf 46. OCLC 299944520 [1- DLC], 945093240 [1- Clements] as of November 2022. MARRIAGE OF THE FREE SOIL AND LIBERTY PARTIES
Lithograph on wove paper, folio broadside. 12-3/4" x 19." A few fox spots, Very Good. "A comic portrayal of the alliance between Free Soil Democrats and Whigs and the more extremist abolitionist Liberty Party interests during the election campaign of 1848. The factions joined to form the Free Soil party and nominated a presidential candidate in a convention at Buffalo in August" [Reilly]. Our broadside illustrates this critical political alliance, which within a few years would blossom into the Republican Party, in mocking fashion. Using the contemporary racist trope equating abolition with miscegenation, it depicts an interracial marriage between Free Soil candidate Van Buren and a crudely dressed, uneducated black woman whom Weitenkampf describes as "a fat Negress." "That union is lampooned here as the wedding of Free Soil presidential candidate Martin Van Buren (center left) and a ragged black woman (center right). Van Buren ally Benjamin F. Butler presides over the 'marriage.' Van Buren, reluctant to embrace the aged bride, is shoved forward by antislavery editor Horace Greeley (left), who says, 'Go, Matty, and kiss the bride. That is an indispensable part of the ceremony.' Van Buren's son John (far left, here called 'John Van Barnburner') also urges him on, 'Walk up, dad. You can hold your breath till the ceremony is over, and after that you can do what you please.' Van Buren says, 'I find that politics, as well as poverty, make one acquainted with strange bedfellows.' In contrast, the woman beckons with open arms, 'Come here, my flower. You is a great stranger, and I want to get acquainted wid you.' A black man behind her says of Van Buren, 'I nebber hab berry good pinion ob the gemman; but if he ax pardon for all he hab done and said agin us, I will shake hands wid de gemman.' A black woman (further right) remarks, 'Mercy on me! How bashful he is!' Butler, with arms raised and book in one hand, intones, 'Who giveth this man to be married to this woman?' " [Reilly.] Reilly 1848-52. Gale 4359. Weitenkampf 90. OCLC 981401226 [1- DLC] as of October 2022. Not at the online sites of Boston Athenaeum, NYPL, Huntington, AAS, Library Company. THE OLD BULL DOG ON THE RIGHT TRACK
Lithograph broadside, by sight 11-1/4" x 16." Matted, 18-1/4" x 23-1/4." Fine. "An election year cartoon measuring Democratic candidate McClellan's military failures against the recent successes of his successor, Ulysses S. Grant. At right Grant, portrayed as a bulldog wearing a collar labeled 'Lieut. General' and epaulets, sits pugnaciously on the tracks of the 'Weldon Railroad,' a Confederate supply route. He looks to Republican presidential incumbent Abraham Lincoln and boasts, 'I'm bound to take it.' Grant refers to the city of Richmond, here represented by a doghouse, in which cowers Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Davis, flanked by his own generals Lee (left) and Beauregard, remarks, 'You aint got this kennel yet old fellow!' Several other dogs hide behind the house. "At far left a dwarf-like McClellan asks the president, '. . . don't you think you had better call the old dog off now. I'm afraid he'll hurt those other dogs, if he catches hold of them.' Lincoln answers, 'Why little Mac thats the same pack of curs, that chased you aboard of the Gunboat two years ago, they are pretty nearly used up now. I think its best to give the old bull dog full swing to go in and finish them!' Lincoln refers to McClellan's failure to counterattack during the Battle of Malvern Hill in 1862. In contrast, Grant aggressively advanced his army toward Richmond, hoping to force a decisive battle" [Reilly]. Weitenkampf 142. Reilly 1864-18. OCLC shows seven institutional holdings [AAS, U IL, Peabody-Essex, Clements, UNC, Boston Public, IN Hist. Soc.] as of December 2022 under several accession numbers. BEADLE’S HALF DIME LIBRARY.SEPTEMBER 11, 1888. VOL. XXIII. NO. 581. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY BEADLE AND ADAMS, 98 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK. DOUBLE CURVE DAN, THE PITCHER DETECTIVE. OR, AGAINST HEAVY ODDS. BY GEO. C. JENKS.
Folio, 8"x 11". 15, [1, advts.] pp. Caption title [as issued], folded. Large illustration on front page of "Double Curve Dan" preparing to pitch. Printed in triple columns. Tanned, light edgewear. Rubberstamp at bottom of title page: "Dime Novels Bought & Sold Charles Bragin, 1525 W. 12th St., Brooklyn 4, N.Y." Good+. OFFICIAL REGISTER OF THE OFFICERS AND CADETS OF THE U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY, WEST POINT, NEW YORK. JUNE, 1858
12mo. 19, [1 blank] pp. Stitched, spine reinforced with cloth tape. Light dusting, Very Good. General George Armstrong Custer is listed among the students of the Fifth Class. He graduated in 1861. Custer was the youngest general of the Union Army during the Civil War, attaining the rank at the age of 23. His classmate and close friend, Thomas L. Rosser, of the Fourth Class, became a Confederate General and captured a number of Custer's men at Trevilian Station. Several other students listed in this register later became Civil War generals: Union - Emory Upton, Ranald S. MacKenzie, Charles Garrison, Martin D. Hardin, Edwin H. Stoughton, James H. Wilson, Wesley Merritt, James M. Warner, Adelbert Ames, Hugh J. Kilpatrick; Confederate - Bryan M. Thomas, Joseph Wheeler, and Stephen D. Ramseur [at age 27]. The course of study is printed. THE ROLE OF SOVIET INVESTIGATORS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BLOOD BANK. [IN] AMERICAN REVIEW OF SOVIET MEDICINE, APRIL 1944
Drew's article occupies pages 360-369 of the April 1944 issue. We offer the entire Volume I, consisting of four issues totaling 588 pages. Portraits, illustrations, charts, bound in original large 8vo red cloth, gilt spine title lettering. Very Good. This is the article's first appearance by the father of the American and British blood banks of World War II. Drew became the first African-American to receive a Doctor of Science degree, which he earned for his thesis, written at Columbia, on blood banks. Drew's article acknowledges the early Soviet work in the preservation of blood. "Dr. Charles Richard Drew broke barriers in a racially divided America to become one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. His pioneering research and systematic developments in the use and preservation of blood plasma during World War II not only saved thousands of lives, but innovated the nation's blood banking process and standardized procedures for long-term blood preservation and storage techniques adapted by the American Red Cross." [web site of the American Chemical Society.]. THE REPUBLIC OR THE OLIGARCHY? WHICH? AN APPEAL AGAINST THE PROPOSED TRANSFER OF THE RIGHT TO VOTE FROM THE PEOPLE TO THE STATE. BY ONE OF THE PEOPLE
36pp, disbound, held with two metal clasps in left margin [two earlier stab holes run through text - no loss]. Institutional blindstamp at title page, minor dusting of outer . Good+. Cheever attacks the Republican Congress for failing, in the proposed Fourteenth Amendment, to guarantee to freedmen the right to vote. "The right to vote belongs to the people, and can neither be withheld nor bestowed by the government; otherwise the people are slaves. The essence of an oligarchy is the exclusion of particular classes from the vote." Congress's refusal is a lingering badge of slavery. Sabin 70009. Not in Work, Blockson, Bartlett. PERSECUTION. THE CASE OF CHARLES PIGOTT: CONTAINED IN THE DEFENCE HE HAD PREPARED, AND WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN DELIVERED BY HIM ON HIS TRIAL, IF THE GRAND JURY HAD NOT THROWN OUT THE BILL PREFERRED AGAINST HIM. BY CHARLES PIGOTT, AUTHOR OF STRICTURES ON THE NEW POLITICAL TENETS OF EDMUND BURKE, TREACHERY NO CRIME, AND OTHER WELL KNOWN POPULAR PUBLICATIONS`
vi, 52 pp, without the half title. Disbound, several pages with upper blank margins moderately spotted. Good+. The publisher, Daniel Eaton, was arrested in December 1793 for publishing an alleged libel comparing King of England to a Game Cock. He was acquitted in early 1794. Pigott began his adult life as a "libertine gentleman, whose reformation took place amid the efflorescence of a short-lived culture of radicalism in the London of the 1790s, a change which signalled his involvement in an attempt to reform not only himself, but also the entire political order of British society" [Mee, Libertines and Radicals in the 1790s: The Strange Case of Charles Pigott. Pages 185-203 in Cryle, LIBERTINE ENLIGHTENMENT (Hampshire and NY: Palgrave Macmillan 2003)]. "Pigott was arrested after an incident at the New London coffee house involving the physician William Hodgson. The official indictment claimed that the two men began proposing republican toasts in their private box after a bout of drinking. The charge revolved around the accusation that Hodgson had denounced George III as a 'German hog butcher.' The proprietor of the coffee house sent for the constables. Hodgson and Pigott were arraigned for uttering seditious words. Early in October, Pigott's lawyer, John Martin, discovered mistakes in the warrant. Pigott also complained to the bench that the excessive amount of bail set contravened the Bill of Rights. A jury at the Old Bailey threw out the charges against Pigott on 2 November. While in confinement, Pigott wrote his defence, later published as Persecution. His account of his evening with Hodgson was of two friends indulging 'in that openness and freedom of discourse natural to persons, who harbour no criminal or secret intentions'. More generally, he staked his defence on Whig principles: 'freedom of speech is an english man's prerogative, engrafted on our Constitution, by magna charta and the bill of rights'." [Mee: Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s, pages 131-148. (Cambridge: 2016)]. FIRST EDITION. II Harv. Law Cat. 355. ESTC T43881.
CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY FOR THE SECOND SESSION OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. COMPILED AND PRINTED FOR THE USE OF CONGRESS
62, [6] pp, plus full-page diagram and folding diagram of Congressional chamber. Disbound, light foxing, Good+. This scarce Directory lists the "places of abode in Washington, of the members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: together with their post offices, counties and Congressional Districts." These were primarily boarding houses. For example, Congressman Millard Fillmore lived at Mrs. Pitman's on 3d Street; Senator James Buchanan lived at Mrs. Dashiell's, "on C, between 4 1/2 and 6th streets;" Senator John C, Calhoun lived at Mrs. Houston's on Capitol Hill. John Quincy Adams had his own house, on F Street between 13th and 14th. Members are also listed by each Committee to which they have been assigned; and in an alphabetical list of "Boarding Houses & Messes." OCLC 1315582060 [1- Georgetown] as of December 2023. HOUSE OF COMMONS, THURSDAY, 18TH OF AUGUST, 1831. [FROM THE MIRROR OF PARLIAMENT, PART XCIV.] CASE OF LESCENE [sic] AND ESCOFFERY
16pp. Disbound. Caption title, as issued. Generous margins, occasional minor foxing. Very Good. "Proceedings of a debate in the House of Commons led by Joseph Hume against the proposal for the British rather than the colonial government in Jamaica to pay financial compensation to Lecesne and Escoffery. Their case against deportation from Jamaica had been brought before the House of Commons in 1824 by Stephen Lushington, M.P., where the decision of the colonial government had been overturned" [description by Kings College, London]. British authorities on Jamaica had deemed Lescene and Escoffery, freemen of color, as dangerous aliens engaged in treasonable and subversive practices, particularly their participation with a committee seeking racial equality and allegedly promoting insurrection against British rule. The authorities banished the two men from Jamaica, triggering protests and years of litigation. OCLC 681176601 [1- Kings College London] as of January 2024. THE TIPPECANOE TEXT-BOOK, COMPILED FROM NILES’ REGISTER AND OTHER AUTHENTIC RECORDS. AND RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE YOUNG MEN OF THE UNITED STATES
95, [1 blank] pp, plus elaborately engraved illustrated title page and four full-page illustrations. Light to moderate spotting, Good+ in a later slipcase. A scarce campaign biography by the admiring editor of Niles' Register. William Henry Harrison is "a pure patriot, whose well-earned fame has been shamelessly traduced for the most vile and selfish purposes." Miles 139. OCLC records eight locations as of January 2024 under two accession numbers. THE SPEECH OF ALBERT GALLATIN, DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, ON THE FIRST OF MARCH, 1798. UPON THE FOREIGN INTERCOURSE BILL. SECOND EDITION. WITH AN APPENDIX
48pp. Disbound, lightly toned. Tear at upper margin of title leaf affects portions of final three letters of title word 'SPEECH.' Good+ This is the second-- and best-- edition of two 1798 printings, each issuing from Folwell's press. The first, in 28 pages, lacks this second edition's Appendix, in which Gallatin presents new arguments defending a Legislature's "right of discretion" to enact laws without constraint from any prior legislation, "where the constitution is silent, and where no obligation, in the nature of a debt or contract, results from the law." At this time in Gallatin's long career he was a member of the House of Representatives from western Pennsylvania. He demonstrated "an unrivaled grasp of constitutional and international law, great power of argument, and a calmness of temper unruffled by the personal attacks of the New England Federalists . His signal service was in the field of finance" [DAB]. Gallatin, supporting a Republican amendment designed "to reduce the diplomatic establishment" by cutting ambassadors' salaries, upholds Congress's power of the purse against Federalist constitutional objections. His analysis is a sophisticated examination of the Constitution's system of divided government and checks and balances. Evans 33775. ESTC W3538. WINDSORS PAY VISIT TO HITLER. THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF WINDSOR [LEFT] ARE SHOWN AS THEY VISITED ADOLF HITLER AT HIS HOME IN BERCHTESGADEN, GERMANY, ON THEIR RECENT TOUR OF THAT COUNTRY. STANDING NEXT TO HITLER IS DR. ROBERT LEY, HEAD OF THE GERMAN LABOR FRONT, AND GUIDE OF THE WINDSORS ON MANY OF THEIR INDUSTRIAL VISITS
[Simpson, Wallis Warfield; Edward, Duke of Windsor; Hitler, Adolf] Associated Press Photograph, oblong 7-1/4" x 9." Hitler in military uniform, Swastika on his left sleeve. Backstamped, "Associated Press Photo." AP typed caption [as in title above]. Fine. Dated 1 November 1937. The Nazi sympathies of Simpson and the Duke caused much concern for Churchill and British leadership during World War II and its preceding events. The Duke was King Edward VIII for less than a year when he abdicated in late 1936 to marry Simpson. Churchill got them out of the way by appointing the Duke Governor of the Bahamas. "In October 1937, the Duke and Duchess visited Nazi Germany, against the advice of the British government, and met Adolf Hitler at his Berghof retreat in Bavaria. The visit was much publicised by the German media. During the visit, Edward gave full Nazi salutes. In Germany, 'they were treated like royalty. . . members of the aristocracy would bow and curtsy towards her, and she was treated with all the dignity and status that the duke always wanted', according to royal biographer Andrew Morton in a 2016 BBC interview" [Wikipedia]. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, AND THAT OF THE UNITED STATES; THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, WITH PRESIDENT WASHINGTON’S FAREWELL ADDRESS. PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE GENERAL COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Massachusetts 119, [1 blank] pp. Bound in quarter sheep and paper-covered wooden boards [front inner hinge cracked]. Some toning, Very Good. THE BRITISH TOCSIN; OR, PROOFS OF NATIONAL RUIN
[Eaton, Daniel Isaac] Modern plain wrappers and stitching. 54pp. Light browning, Very Good. The publisher, Daniel Eaton, was a persistent challenger of British efforts to curtail speech critical of the Crown and government. He had been arrested and acquitted for publishing Paine's 'Rights of Man," and then for publishing a comparison of the King of England to a Game Cock. This pamphlet's thesis is that "Britain is on the brink of ruin. . . Corruption and distress, walking hand in hand through the country; and war eternally compleating the triumvirate of despotism. . . That government is near its end, when having once depended upon the free temper of the people, they endeavor to reign by their own extent of power." The author writes "on the extravagance of the present reign" and its corrupting effects. He predicts "commercial bankruptcy! a national famine! and an unavoidable Revolution!" OCLC 221410570 [4- Columbia, Baylor, two in England] as of January 2024. HISTORY OF COMPANY E OF THE SIXTH MINNESOTA REGIMENT OF VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. WITH AN APPENDIX BY CAPT. CHARLES J. STEES
Hill, Alfred J. 45pp, with port. frontis. Original staples and printed wrappers. Blank rear wrapper with a chip; front wrapper present but separated from text by a tear along the entire inner margin. Else Very Good. With roster, statistics, record of service [primarily in the Sioux Campaign, and in New Orleans and Alabama]. Captain Stees's report describes Lieutenant Colonel Marshall's 1862 "raid" into the Dakotas against the Sioux. Stees had been captain of Company G of the Sixth Minnesota. FIRST EDITION. Howes H478. Dornbusch [MN] 56. Nicholson 375. Not in Nevins, Graff, Decker, Eberstadt, or Soliday.
A DISCOURSE, DELIVERED IN HARVARD, JULY 4, 1794, AT THE REQUEST OF THE MILITARY OFFICERS IN THAT PLACE, WHO, WITH THE MILITIA UNDER THEIR COMMAND, WERE THERE ASWEMBLED TO COMMEMORATE THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE. BY WILLIAM EMERSON, A.M. MINISTER OF THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN HARVARD
Emerson, William 18pp, disbound rather roughly at inner blank margin, With the half title, 'Mr. Emerson's Discourse on the American Independence' [upper blank corner clipped]. Light perforation stamp at title page. Text clean, but several blank margin repairs. Good or so. This July 4th Sermon was delivered by the father of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Its caption title, 'On the American Independence, and the Means of Preserving It,' is accompanied by advice from Galatians V: "Be Not Entangled Again with the Yoke of Bondage." Emerson's opening sentence is, "Slavery is one of the greatest calamities of human life." Its opposite, Liberty, "is the light and life and happiness of mankind." He counsels "the due cultivation of useful and religious knowledge" as a people's best guarantee of "the maintenance of their liberties." The American Revolution and the founding of the American Nation have delivered us from the bondage of English despotism. Evans 26940.- $175
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SPEECH OF HON. L.E. PRATT ON SENATOR SMITH’S BILL, FOR THE REPEAL OF THE SPECIFIC CONTRACT LAW. DELIVERED IN THE CALIFORNIA STATE SENATE, FEB. 15, 1866. [REPORTED FOR THE AMERICAN FLAG.]
Pratt, Leonidas E. 23, [1 blank] pp. Stitched. Each page printed in two columns. Very Good. California's Specific Contract Law required that, when a contract specified the currency in which a debtor must pay a debt, the debtor was required to pay in the currency so specified. At this time, the United States recognized three types of currency: gold, silver, and United States notes. Thus, if a contract required payment to be made in gold coin, the debtor could not legally pay in a different currency, i.e., U.S. treasury notes or silver. The Specific Contract Law had many enemies who sought to overturn it. Senator Pratt defends it in this speech. Not in Cowan, Rocq, Drury. OCLC 58943039 [1- CA State Lib.], 19720730 [1- UC Berkeley] as of January 2024.- $350
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REPLY OF WADE HAMPTON, GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA, AND OTHERS, TO THE CHAMBERLAIN MEMORIAL
Hampton, Wade 63, [1 errata] pp. Stitched in original printed title wrappers [spine reinforced with old tape]. Light scattered foxing. Good+. The caption title is, "Memorial of the Governor and State Officers of South Carolina. To the Senators and Representatives of the Congress of the United States of America." The pamphlet recounts the bitter South Carolina gubernatorial election of 1876, the "most tumultuous" in its history. Hampton's "campaign of intimidation far overshadowed" other lawless acts [Foner, Reconstruction 573-574]. For a look at the resurrection of anti-Negro sentiment in the South at the close of Reconstruction, this pamphlet is illuminating. "In 1876 Hampton was nominated for governor by the 'straight-out' Democrats. His acceptance did much to win the support of those Democrats who had opposed the 'straight-out' movement believing that it would be better policy to work for the re-election of D.H. Chamberlain, a Republican governor." Hampton's "election was probably secured in the end by the success of his followers in preventing large numbers of the Republican Negroes from voting." He was then instrumental in restoring white supremacy in South Carolina. [DAB.] IV Turnbull 73. Not in LCP, Blockson.- $650
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THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT AARON MIERS PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFORE ME A PERRIN ONE OF THE COMM. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR LINCOLN CTY, AND MADE OATH THAT THE CONTRACT THAT HE MADE WITH LUCY MIERS FOR WHICH AN EXECUTION IS NOW IN FORCE AGAINST HIM FOR THE HIRE OF A NEGROE NAMED JIM WAS TO BE PAID IN THE CURRENT PAPER OF THE COUNTY GIVEN UNDER MY HAND THIS 11TH DAY OF JULY 1825. A. PERRIN JPLC
[Slave Hire] Ten lines, entirely in ink manuscript, on paper, oblong 4-1/2" x 7-3/4." Docketed in ink manuscript on verso: "Aaron Myers | affadavit | Lucy Myers." Very Good. A[chilles] Perrin [1778-1868] was a farmer whose father and uncles had fought in the American Revolution. The family emigrated from France to England, to Virginia, and finally to Lincoln County, Kentucky.- $350
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STIPPLE ENGRAVING BUST PORTRAIT OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, TORSO DIRECTED SLIGHTLY RIGHT, FACE TURNEDSLIGHTLY LEFT AND EYES LOOKING FRONT, FUR COLLAR ON COAT, ROLLING SHIRT COLLAR. CAPTIONED: FRANKLIN/ NE A BOSTON LE 17 JANVR 1706./ MORT A PHILADELPHI IN 1790.”
Franklin, Benjamin Small oval bust portrait, 2 1/16" x 2 3/8"; printed within raised rectangular border, 2 5/8" x 4 1/4"; printed on partly untrimmed sheet of thick paper 8 5/8" x 12 3/8". Portrait done using stipple effect. "F. Bonneville del" and "Delatour Sculp." printed outside bottom border of oval. Caption directly below and within rectangular border, "FRANKLIN./ Ne a Boston le 17 Janvr 1706./ Mort a Philadelphie en 1790." Light shading and foxing around edges of paper, does not touch or affect portrait area. Very Good. "In S.V. Henkel's catalogue no. 683 ('Washington and Tilghman correspondence,' sold April. 5" & 6", 1892, Phila.) item 925 is: 'Small ivory miniature of Benjamin Franklin. Original painting on ivory, from life, by F. Bonneville." [New York Public Library: BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, VOLUME 10. 1906. No. 111, Pages 66-7.] Catalogue of the Very Important Collection of . Edwin Babcock Holden. 1910, 1379. Bulletin of New York Public Library, Volume X.1906, p. 66, #111.- $250
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FOUR SEPARATE IMPRINTS, BOUND TOGETHER, RELATING TO THE TRIAL OF CHARLES ANGUS ON AN INDICTMENT FOR THE WILFUL MURDER OF MARGARET BURNS
[Angus, Charles] Four imprints in contemporary binding [hinges cracked, extremities rubbed]. Light to moderate foxing throughout. Good+. 1. THE TRIAL OF CHARLES ANGUS, ESQ. ON AN INDICTMENT FOR THE WILFUL MURDER OF MARGARET BURNS, AT THE ASSIZES HELD AT LANCASTER, ON FRIDAY, 2D SEPT. 1808, BEFORE THE HON. SIR. ALAN CHAMBRE, ONE OF THE JUSTICES OF HIS MAJESTY'S COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. TAKEN IN SHORT HAND BY WILLIAM JONES, JUN. Liverpool: Printed by William Jones. . . [1808]. [4], 288 pp. Last page dirty but legible. 2. A VINDICATION OF THE OPINIONS DELIVERED IN EVIDENCE BY THE MEDICAL WITNESSES FOR THE CROWN, ON A LATE TRIAL AT LANCASTER, FOR MURDER. Liverpool: Printed by and for W. Jones. . . 1808. [5], 8-88 pp. Upper blank corners heavily browned. 3. Carson, James: REMARKS ON A LATE PUBLICATION, ENTITLED "A VINDICATION OF THE OPINIONS DELIVERED IN EVIDENCE BY THE MEDICAL WITNESSES FOR THE CROWN, ON A LATE TRIAL AT LANCASTER." BY JAMES CARSON, M.D. Liverpool: Printed by W. Jones. . . 1808. [3], 8-136 pp. Upper blank corners browned. 4. Campbell, D.: REFLECTIONS OCCASIONED BY THE PERUSAL OF A PAMPHLET, ENTITLED, A VINDICATION OF THE OPINIONS DELIVERED BY THE MEDICAL WITNESSES FOR THE CROWN, (THE PROSECUTION) ON A LATE TRIAL AT LANCASTER. BY D. CAMPBELL, M.D. Liverpool: Printed by W. Jones. . . 1809. 53, [1] pp. A "hole in the stomach" killed Margaret Burns. Did Angus cause her death, by deliberately giving her a "solution of corrosive sublimate of Mercury" to drink? Or, as Angus alleged, did Margaret suffer from a chronic "obstruction in her female evacuations," which, when treated, did "rupture the coats of her stomach"? Much medical controversy accompanied the verdict: NOT GUILTY. "In a case that aroused much controversy, in September 1808, Liverpool merchant Charles Angus was accused of poisoning Margaret Burns, his deceased wife's half-sister and his children's governess. Burns was believed to be pregnant at the time of her death and Angus was charged with attempting to induce an abortion through the use of oil of Savin, a poison. Medical experts testified that, upon autopsy, no significant amount of the poison could be found in the body. Angus was found not guilty" [online site, National Library of Medicine].- $600
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