Raynors 2012-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/27/2012
Broadside, “TO THE LIBERTY PARTY OF THE COUNTRY OF MADISON,” Peterboro. Sept. 15, 1846, 1pp., signed in type by Gerrit Smith. Faint creases, small tear along one crease not affecting text, minor age-toning. Very good. Gerrit Smith, reformer, philanthropist, and thrice presidential candidate from the Liberty Party, was one of the foremost abolitionists of his day and to whom Frederick Douglass dedicated his work "My Bondage and My Freedom." This circular congratulates the Liberty Party's State Convention at Canastota in Madison County, New York, and the progress of the Party in Smith's hometown of Peterboro. Presumably printed by Smith on his private press in Peterboro, New York, the present broadside was a way in which many disseminated their political ideas and campaigns. Here, Smith exalts the participants of the Canastota Convention for nominating anti-slavery proponents as political candidates, proclaiming: "Hereafter the Liberty Party of this State will not vote for a proslavery man, though it be for the humble office of pathmaster; no, not even, if it be to gain an antislavery President by it."
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