[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                                             $4000.00

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