Lot 94
A Notorious Abolitionist Speculates on the Future at the Close of the Civil War. Hinton Helper (1829-1909). American writer who published "The Impending Crisis of the South, and How to Meet It" (1857), criticizing slaveholding on economic grounds. Autograph letter signed ("H.R. Helper"), as U.S. Consul, 4 pages, recto & verso, 8 x 5", Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 4, 1865. To Edward M. Davis (1811-1887) in Philadelphia, an American merchant who was deeply interested in the anti-slavery movement and served on the staff of General John C. Fremont during the Civil War. With only some minor creasing through the lower third of the last two pages and a few chips to the lower edge, this letter is very good. Helper writes in part: "If I mistake not, you have always… practiced the virture of antagonism to the fiendish fraternity of Kidnappers and Slaveholders….We who are friendly toward the government of the United States… have not, as yet, been able to see but one solution to the problem, and that is the complete reestablishment of the Union over the irreproachable downfall of Slavery and the Slaveholders." Estimated Value $200 - 300
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