Vintage hardcover autograph album, 8 x 5, signed inside by 96 politicians and military officers, mostly on affixed clipped slips and cards, most pages having multiple signatures, and almost all pages being signed on a single side. Signers include: Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, William Seward, David G. Farragut, O. O. Howard, Ambrose Burnside, Edward Everett Hale, Charles Sumner, William T. Sherman, Lew Wallace, and Edwin Stanton. Scattered toning and soiling to most slips, several loose pages, fragile binding, and both covers detached and worn, otherwise very good condition. RR Auction COA.
American politician (1811–1874) and Massachusetts senator best known as a radical Republican and a staunch opponent of slavery. In 1856, Sumner was severely beaten in the Senate chamber by South Carolina Congressman Preston Brook. ALS, one page, 9.5 x 7.75, April 15, 1865. Letter to an unidentified gentleman, written in the center panel of the sheet. A strong statement by the great abolitionist on Equality, issued on the day following Lincoln’s assassination. In full: “I hope this report will be satisfactory. Our cause has passed into a new phase. It is now the battle of ideas & not of arms. We insist upon Equality before the law, as the protection & safeguard of the new made freedom.” Sheet is affixed by the reverse of its left edge to a slightly larger light brown sheet. Scattered toning and soiling and vertical folds to either sides of text, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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