[Rarebooks] FS: Witty Charles Sumner Letter about attending a Horse Fair

[Charles Agvent]

SUMNER, Charles. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). Boston, 19 October 1853. 
A witty one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Sumner responding to an 
invitation to appear at the Horse Fair in Springfield. In part: "The age 
of Chivalry has passed. The age of Humanity has come. The Horse, which 
gave its name to the first, now yields to Man the foremost place. But 
your Fair shows that Man will not neglect his noble dependent." Pencil 
notations at the top and bottom; adhesive stain at the very left margin 
where the letter was once tipped in. A few small stains and creases from 
mailing. Very Good.

Senator Charles Sumner, perhaps the most influential man in public life 
after Lincoln at the end of the Civil War, was a notable advocate for 
emancipation of the slaves and later for civil rights. He was severely 
beaten on the floor of the United States Senate by Representative 
Preston Brooks of South Carolina in retribution for Sumner's attack on 
Brooks' uncle, South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler, and the 
Kansas-Nebraska Act in his "Crime against Kansas" [May 19 and 20, 1856] 
speech. (#019666)     $350.00

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