[Rarebooks] FS: Henry Clay: "I had rather be right than be President." Price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:     Was $750,      Now $500

CLAY, Henry. AUTOGRAPH DOCUMENT SIGNED. Washington, 21 May 1832. 
Document (13-1/2" x 9-1/2") from the American Colonization Society 
conferring lifetime membership upon G. W. Burnet and SIGNED by the 
society's president Henry Clay who at the time was also a United States 
Senator and candidate for President of the United States on the Whig 
ticket. Just a few years after this document was signed Clay, who looked 
with dread on the spread of abolitionism, would make his famous 
statement connected with this issue: "I had rather be right than be 
President." The document has a neat vertical split right down the middle 
fold separating it into two pieces and a long tear on one horizontal 
fold not affecting Clay's signature. Tears and chips along outer edges. 
(#007678)        $500.00

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