Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
Antislavery Broadside, headed: "FREE DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK," 14.5" x 9.5" with a three printed column format, October 1854. It is signed in print by John P. Hale, Hiram Barney, and John Jay, as a "Committee appointed by the State Convention of the Free Democracy." The text of the address touches specifically on the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and concludes that, in part: "...Slavery is the one element that disturbs our peace and threatens our stability. Originally sectional and local, it openly aims to become national and universal... The power of deciding it is in your hands. Act, as the South declare you will, as 'hucksters in politics' -- 'knock under,' as they predict and hope, to the sectional coalition, which having betrayed and defrauded you, now sneers at your want of spirit, and all is lost, and most of all your honor... convince the slave power that 'there is a North'...." Fine condition.
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