[Rarebooks] FS: Frederick Douglass Letter

[Charles Agvent]

DOUGLASS, Frederick. LETTER SIGNED (LS). Rochester, 4 Nov. 1867. A 
letter of @90 words to Frederick W. Gunster on a 5" x 8" sheet of lined 
paper accomplished in another hand but SIGNED in full by Douglass. In 
full: "Your favor of the 30th of Oct. has reached me. Absence from home 
is my apology for delay. You give me the choice of any evening between 
the 20th and 30th of Nov. inclusive. The best I can do is to give you 
Monday evening the 25th of Nov. Regarding the limits set for me as final 
I have placed Scranton on my list for that evening." Throughout 1867 
Douglass canvassed New England, the Midwest, and the mid-Atlantic states 
in a grueling campaign to muster white voter support against the Andrew 
Johnson administration's sluggish attempts at black enfranchisement. On 
the 25th and 26th of November, Douglass was Gunster's guest, reportedly 
telling Scrantonites in no uncertain terms that there was little 
advantage in emancipation under Andrew Johnson. Whether black Americans 
would continue to bear the inherent burdens of citizenship without 
impartial suffrage would be decided at the polls the following November 
when Ulysses S. Grant, carrying 26 states to opponent Horatio Seymour's 
8, privately sighed, "I am afraid I am elected." Normal creases from 
folding; slight foxing. Near Fine.                $4,000.00	

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