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Charles Sumner Writes to a Fellow Abolitionist |
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 Charles Sumner (1811-74), Autograph Letter Signed. Boston, October 27, 1861. To Jonathan P. Blanchard (1811-1982), 1 p.
Inventory # 20532 $1,500
“My dear Sir, I always read you writings with interest & sympathy. We are both arriving at the same results; for we both hate Slavery & love Peace...”
Senator Sumner of Massachusetts was a leading abolitionist, intimate of Lincoln, and radical republican. Before the Civil War, he joined the ranks of abolitionism’s martyrs when he was savagely attacked on the floor of the Senate by Congressman Preston Brooks in consequence of remarks that Sumner made about Brooks’ relative, Senator Andrew Butler of South Carolina. Sumner never fully recovered.
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