Raynor HCA 2014-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/30/2014
A compete issue of The Liberator, July 27, 1860, 4pp., disbound, VG. From the interior is a fiery letter from Fred. Douglass to James Redpath, June 29, 1860, in part “ to do honor to the memory of one whom I regard as THE man of the nineteenth century. Little, indeed, can you and I do to add lustre to his deathless fame. -- The principles of John Brown, attested by a life of spotless integrity and sealed by his blood, are self-vindicated. His name is covered with a glory so bright and enduring, as to require nothing at our hands to increase or perpetuate it. Only for our own sake, and that of enslaved and imbruted humanity must we assemble. To have been acquainted with John Brown, shared his counsels, enjoyed his confidence, and sympathized with the great objects of his life and death, I esteem as among the highest privileges of my life. We do but honor to ourselves in doing honor to him, for it implies the possession of qualities akin to his. ... I have little hope of the freedom of the slave by peaceful means. ... While the slave will tamely submit his neck to the yoke, his back to the lash, and his ankle to the fetter and chain, the Bible will be quoted, and learning invoked to justify slavery. The only penetrable point of a tyrant is the fear of death. ....”
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