Raynors HCA 2016-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/17/2016
Imprint, “LETTER OF PETER COOPER, on SLAVE EMANCIPATION,” Loyal Publication Society, New York, 1862,8pp., disbound, VG. Cooper writes to President Lincoln, in part “...It is a fact that the enslavement of human beings has so far infused its insidious poison into the very hearts of the Southern people, that they have come to believe and declare the evil of slavery to be a good ...The constitutional requirement to return fugitive slaves on their being demanded by Southern men, having been acknowledged and performed by the States, has been reaffirmed by an almost unanimous vote in Congress ...It should be remembered by all, that slavery is in itself a perpetual war in its natural struggles for freedom, and that this struggle can never cease until men by nature choose slavery in preference to freedom, and until men actually prefer being forced, instead of performing free compensated labor.....” Cooper founded the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in Manhattan, New York City. The new institution soon became an important part of the community. The Great Hall was a place where the pressing civic controversies of the day could be debated – and, unusually, radical views were not excluded.
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