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[ADAMS & JEFFERSON]  Webster, Daniel. A Discourse in Commemoration of the 
Lives and Services of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, delivered in Faneuil 
Hall, Boston, August 2, 1826. Boston; Cummings, Hilliard and Company: 1826. 
m America, and a righteous defender of the Union, commemorating the lives 
of two of the Founding Fathers. Jefferson and Adams died the same day -July 
4th, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the Signing. Several weeks later 
Daniel Webster gave this oration at Boston's Faneuil Hall. "The tears which 
flow, and the honors that are paid, when the Founders of the Republic die, 
give hope that the Republic itself may be immortal". Disbound. 5"x8.5", 62 
pages, a little light soil; evidently bound into and then disbound from a 
larger compilation. [02500] $75.00

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[GARFIELD]  Garfield Memorial. Sorrow of the People of Buenos Ayres for the 
Death of General James A. Garfield, Late President of the United States of 
America. Buenos Ayres; printed by order of Committee:1881. A former Union 
General in the Civil War, President Garfield was assassinated by a lunatic, 
but suffered for some months before succumbing to his wounds. This very 
interesting pamphlet expresses the sorrow of the American community in 
Buenos Ayres, and describes the receipt of the news, memorial services, 
speeches, etc. OCLC only locates 8 copies.  6.5"x10", 39 pages, softcover; 
evidently bound into a larger volume at some point and then removed, 
leaving excess spine material; several marginal cover chips; a very 
discreet ex-institutional with a small withdrawal stamp and a faint 
blindstamp on the title page; with the ownership signature on the front 
cover of "Joseph G. Story, New York". [28360] $150.00

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[HARRISON]  Damon, Norwood. The Holy Voice. A Discourse, delivered before 
The Society of the Rev. David Damon, in West Cambridge, Mass. on Friday, 
May 14, 1841, the Day of the National Fast, appointed in consequence of the 
Death of William Henry Harrison, President of the United States. Boston; 
Charles C. Little and James Brown: 1841. President Harrison, "Tippecanoe" 
of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" fame was the first U.S. President to die in 
office, and the event shook the nation to its core. The fact that he caught 
pneumonia and died within a very short time of his inauguration didn't help 
matters much. Harrison had been a very successful general in the Seminole 
War, and his death gave rise to the later legend that the President elected 
every 20th year would die in office -he was said to have caused a dying 
Indian chief to utter the curse that began the whole thing.  Softcover, 
5.5"x9", 16 pages; an exceptionally fine copy of a fragile pamphlet. 
Interestingly, there are four period minor penned text corrections 
-obviously someone was reading from the copy. OCLC locates 10 copies. 
[00931] $100.00

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[HARRISON]  Krebs, John M. The Leader Fallen: A Sermon preached in the 
Rutgers-Street Church, New York, on Sabbath morning, April 11th, 1841, on 
occasion of the death of William Henry Harrison, President of the United 
States of America. New York; Harper & Brothers: 1841. "Printed by 
Request".  Disbound. 5.5"x8.5", 44 pages. Light soil and a few foxed spots; 
evidently a family copy, as it is signed "from her brother, the Author". 
[00932] $50.00

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[LINCOLN]  Valentine, David T. (ed.). The Obsequies of Abraham Lincoln in 
the City of New York. New York; Edmund Jones & Co. 1866. A full and 
detailed report of how the death of Lincoln was observed and mourned in New 
York City. This includes text of all the resolutions passed, a square by 
square and neighborhood by neighborhood description of the mourning 
observances and decorations, in many cases describing how individual 
buildings were draped and decorated, and including the text of various 
mourning cards and placards placed in windows; the ceremonies surrounding 
the President's body lying in state, a complete description of the marchers 
in the funeral parade by division, and on and on in incredible detail. 
There are many text illustrations and a number of full-page plates showing 
scenes from the ceremonies, individual decorated buildings, 
etc.  Hardcover. 7.5"x11", 254 pages, portrait frontispiece and many 
decorative vignettes, plus 7 engraved duo-tone plates and a due-tone 
frontispiece with tissue guards; the text is printed with a thick black 
border around each page; original black cloth with a gilt, draped urn on 
the covers. Ex-institutional, with spine label and bookplate; covers with 
light soil and some wear, especially at the spine head and tail; several 
minor internal hinge cracks, but the binding is tight and nice. Overall a 
nice copy of this somewhat fragile book which is prone to defects and not 
usually found in very good condition.  $250.00


AND A VICE-PRESIDENT-

Wilson, Henry. Four items from the Funeral Solemnities for Vice President 
Henry Wilson. Boston: 1875. Born Jeremiah Jones Colbath in Farmington, New 
Hampshire in 1812, Henry Wilson became an important abolitionist leader, a 
Senator, and Vice President of the United States. Early life was hard for 
Jeremiah- he came from a family so poor that his father named him after a 
rich neighbor in hopes of extracting money in return; from the ages 10 to 
21 he was apprenticed to a farmer and never had more than a month of school 
a year.

At the age of 21 he changed his name to Henry Wilson and traveled to 
Natick, Massachusetts where he became a shoemaker. An 1836 trip to 
Washington, D.C. aroused a fierce antipathy to slavery in Wilson, and he 
entered state politics as a Whig, winning election to both state House and 
Senate. When the Whigs proved too conservative he joined the radical Free 
Soil party, but the party collapsed. Something of a political opportunist, 
he then joined the "Know Nothings", and, in a complicated maneuver, got 
himself elected to the United States Senate as a Republican.

Wilson never lost touch with the common man, never forgot his roots, and 
disdained the society of Boston Brahmins. He is said to have traveled 
tirelessly through Massachusetts and the other states, talking and 
listening to people. Paired in the Senate with his colleague Charles 
Sumner, Wilson worked hard for abolition, and became the Chairman of the 
powerful Senate Committee on Military Affairs during the Civil War.

After the War he introduced the first civil rights legislation in the 
Senate and became extremely critical of President Johnson, supporting 
Johnson's impeachment. In 1868 he began to angle for the Vice Presidency, 
and although backroom maneuvering denied him the job in 1868, he got it in 
1872. Unfortunately, just as he got the job during Ulysses Grant's second 
term, he suffered a stroke, from which he never really recovered. He died 
in the Capitol building on November 22nd, 1875.

This interesting lot includes a black-bordered admission card to the 
"Solemnities" at the Massachusetts State House; the program for the 
Commemoration Services at the State House; an invitation to a "meeting of 
citizens" at Boston's Faneuil Hall to commemorate the Vice President, and a 
black-bordered program for the services held at Wilson's home in Natick. A 
little light soil, but overall very nice condition. [02491] $125.00

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