[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Letter from the most influential man in public life after Lincoln at the end of the Civil War

[Charles Agvent]

SUMNER, Charles. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). Boston, 25 April 1853. A 
2-1/2-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on a 8-1/4" x 6-3/4" sheet of paper 
folded in half by Sumner to Rev. John L. Blake. Sumner tells Blake that 
he has only his own copy of his book--ORATIONS & SPEECHES OF CHARLES 
SUMNER--but that Blake can find a copy in New York. He congratulates 
Blake on the success of his book and concludes: "My father to whom you 
kindly refer died at Boston in April 1839. I was at the time in Rome." 
John Lauris Blake (1788–1857) was an American clergyman and bestselling 
author, best known for the GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. Creases from 
folding; mounting strip on verso. 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'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. (#021254) $250

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