Raynors HCA 2016-10
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/21/2016
An authentic and original issue of “PUCK”, July 9, 1884, 10” x 13”, 16pp., disbound, with gorgeous color litho covers and centerspread. Most dramatic is the center spread regarding Fugitive Slaves. Under the caption, “John A. Logan in 1859, ‘You call it the dirty work of the Democratic Party to catch fugitive slaves for the Southern people. We are willing to perform that dirty work.’ John A. Logan, in the Illinois State Legislature, Dec. 9th, 1859.” The illustration shows John A. Logan standing at center, holding a paper that states "No Interference with Slave-Hunters!", and looking over his left shoulder at two slave hunters rounding up a family of fugitive slaves, a similar scene is repeated in the background. Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, and Charles Sumner are standing on the left, watching in anger and with restraint. On the ground is an Illinois resolution which was supported by Logan. “"If a Negro or Mulatto, bond or free, shall hereafter come into this State, and remain ten days with the evident intention of residing in the same, every such Negro or Mulatto shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and for the first offense shall be fined the sum of fifty dollars. If such Negro or Mulatto shall be found guilty, and the fine assessed be not paid forthwith to the Justice of the Peace before whom the proceedings were had, it shall be the duty of said Justice to commit said Negro or Mulatto to the custody of the Sheriff, or otherwise keep him, her or them in custody; and said Justice shall forthwith advertise said Negro or Mulatto, and on the day and at the time and place mentioned in said advertisement the (aid Justice shall, at public auction, proceed to sell said Negro or Mulatto to any person or persons who will pay such fine and costs for the shortest time; and said purchaser shall have the right to compel said Negro or Mulatto to work for, and serve out said time. If said Negro or Mulatto shall not within ten days after the expiration of his, her or their time of service, as aforesaid, leave the State, he, she or they shall be liable to a second prosecution, in which the penalty to be inflicted shall be one hundred dollars, and so on for every subsequent offense the penalty shall be increased fifty dollars over and above the last penalty."
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