[Rarebooks] FS: Charles Sumner Handwritten SIGNED Letter

[Charles Agvent]

*SUMNER, Charles. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). [Washington], March 30. 
A one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on a 10" x 8" sheet of paper folded 
in half by Sumner to Charles P. Eaton of Boston replying to his request 
to secure a copy of a speech by Maine senator Peleg Sprague. Dated 
"Senate Chamber/March 30th." "It is wholly uncertain whether I make any 
speech on the English treaty. If I do, and it is published, I shall be 
happy to send you a copy." Creases from folding. Near Fine.
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's uncle, South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler, and the 
Kansas-Nebraska Act in his "Crime against Kansas" [May 19 and 20, 1856] 
speech. The beating nearly killed Sumner, and it took him several years 
to recover. The beating also contributed significantly to the country's 
polarization over the issue of slavery and has been considered symbolic 
of the "breakdown of reasoned discourse" and the use of violence that 
eventually led to the Civil War. (#020897)        $200*

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