Newspapers

6-1. Trial of the President “for his numerous unconstitutional acts.”

Rabidly anti-Lincoln newspaper with pro-Constitution themes echoed in today’s discourse,  The Crisis, Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 12, 1863, 13 x 19½, (8) pp. A leading Copperhead tabloid,  reportedly banned in several Northern cities, with volatile articles including, “The Martyrdom  of Congressman C.C. Vallandigham,” who was deported by Lincoln to the Confederacy – then  sent back North by Jefferson Davis! “Democratic State Ticket” featuring Ohioan Vallandigham  on page 1; lengthy message from him. Full-page-plus fanciful expression of the intense hatred  of Lincoln by antiwar Democrats: “Trial of Abraham Lincoln - A Council of the Past on the  Tyranny of the Present - The Spirit of the Constitution on the Bench - Abraham Lincoln,  Prisoner, at the Bar, his own Counsel...The seance lately held at the White House is the basis  for a trial of the Pres. by the ghosts of the Founding Fathers, for his numerous  unconstitutional acts during the war emergency....” With biting fictionalized interrogations of  Lincoln on his unconstitutional conduct, by John Hancock, Webster, Clay, Calhoun,  Hamilton, Patrick Henry, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, et al. “How Soldiers’ Views are  Controlled...The inalienable right to instruct the Pres., who is but their agent and  servant...These soldiers had volunteers under the most solemn and sacred pledge of Congress  and the Pres. that this war should not be waged to free the negroes; and because, when asked,  they say they do not approve the perfidious usurpations of the Pres., they are seized and  imprisoned!...” A crowning editorial: “Mr. Lincoln on Citizenship: The States alone declare  who are their citizens...The General Government is nowhere invested with the right to declare  any at large citizenship...The only power given to the General Govt...was to declare ‘a uniform  rule of naturalization.’ There are no laws in the U.S...for the naturalization of the negro. He  can be made a citizen only by State action....” En toto, the writings of this newspaper are more  vociferous than any Confederate newspaper we can recall. Light edge toning, wrinkle at right  margin of only fold, else very fine, and apparently unread. $75-100  “At a Time when the Public Enemy have actually invaded some of our Neighbouring States...”

6-2. “...And the fire is still raging...with a sky of brass.”

Three captivating issues of Cincinnati newspapers with news of the Great Chicago Fire – as it  was still spreading, and the aftermath: Cincinnati Times and Chronicle, Oct. 9, 1871, about 22  x 28, 4 pp. “First Edition - 2½ O’clock - Chicago - The City Laid in Ashes - Thirty Business  Squares Burned - 10,000 Houses Destroyed - Scenes That Beggar Description - Help Wanted  From Everywhere - 500 Millions Loss...,” with time-stamped accounts direct from Chicago of  the expanding disaster as the minutes and hours wore on: “All Chicago is on fire...In fact,  everybody, is burned out from about Twelfth St. north, and from Canal, on the west side, to  the lake. All the city banks are burned, and all the business part of the city is gone, and the fire  is still raging. The water has given out, and the firemen are exhausted...” “1:15 A.M.: Increased  fury. It has spread almost with the velocity of the wind...The Gas-House will be destroyed, and  the city wrapped in darkness. A terrible panic is prevailing...Almost everybody, men, women  and children, are in the street. Praying, weeping and wailing is heard in every direction. It now  looks as if the whole city might be destroyed...Vessels in the river are catching fire in every  direction...Already within a block of the telegraph office, where this dispatch is written, and  sweeping onward, a whirlwind of flame against which human efforts are powerless. 2:10 A.M.:  The block immediately across the street from the telegraph office, one of the finest--- At this  period the wires were broken....” Also on p. 1, “Second Edition - 4½ O’clock...The work of  destruction continues....” Heartfelt editorial; “Our Great City of the Future in Ashes - Great  Excitement. Never in the history of the New World has there been a conflagration so  tremendous....” Front-page notice, “The Israelites of the city of Cincinnati are hereby requested to meet in the...Plum-Street Temple...to  adopt proper measures in regard to the great calamity that befell Chicago....” • Same, Oct. 10, 1871. Massive page-one coverage,  including 9”-wide map of the fire. “First Edition - 2½ O’clock...Gen. Sheridan to the Rescue...Assistance for the Sufferers...Troops in  Arms - Cincinnati Engines at Work - Enormous Prices for Rooms - The Origin of the Fire - Heroic Efforts of the Firemen - Intense  Excitement in N.Y. - Trepidation in Financial Circles....” “Second Edition - Chicago - The Burned City...Scenes of Terror and Confusion  - Appalling Beyond Description...,” with a cinematic narrative: “...a continuous sheet of flames two miles long...poor people of all colors  and shades...mad with excitement, struggling with each other to get away...All the books and papers of the Historical Society, including  the original copy of the famous emancipation proclamation of Pres. Lincoln, for which the society paid $25,000, were destroyed....”  Other news on Brigham Young trial, cable monopolies, Chicago ward politics, and much more. Both issues with some press creases as  the paper was printed under great duress, considerable handling wear, varying foxing and staining, but good. • Cincinnati Daily  Enquirer, Oct. 13, 1871, 14½ x 22, 8 pp. Densely set news of the fire’s aftermath: “Hopeful Feeling Pervading all Classes - Visitors  Requested to Leave the City - Graphic Description by a Tribune Reporter...Blank Ruin on every Hand - 18,000 Buildings  Destroyed...2,600 Acres Devastated - But One Building Left in the Entire North Division...Good Order and Security Restored.”  “Chicago...mistress of the Lakes...her magnificent blocks and splendid edifices...lapped up by the dragon tongue of the Fire-demon....”  Tattered with loss of text along horizontal fold of pp. 1-2 (only); edge tears and creases, handling wear, foxing, but still satisfactory, and  enormously evocative artifact, embodying the tension and excitement of its readers. Midwestern accounts, especially as the fire was still  advancing, are very scarce. Library of Congress’ Chronicling America reports about five holdings of the Oct. 9-10 issues. $275-325 (3  pcs.)

6-3. Including the First Issue of the “...Rebel Ventilator.”

Unusual run of Brownlow’s Knoxville Whig, and Rebel Ventilator, Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 11, 1863-June 25, 1864, including Vol. 1, Nos.  1-13 inclusive, plus Nos. 16-19 and 22-25. 17¾ x 24, 4 pp. ea. Impassioned pro-Lincoln, anti-Confederate newspaper by the irrascible  Tennessee personality, the articles ranging from informative to inflammatory. Much more than just Union news with a Southern  imprint, each issue is infused with an amalgamation of bitingly anti-Confederate invective, sarcasm, and vitriol. Extensive content on  blacks, slavery, and the war. American flag at upper left of every page. The premiere issue offers the paper’s policy: “Two years ago the  infuriated Rebels of the South forced us to suspend our publication...In the South there has been a strong Union element all the time,  but powerless for good, as it was kept down by Rebel bayonets under the worst reign of terror ever known...Since the occupation of East  Tennessee by the Union army...we understand that some solicitude is manifested upon this question in certain rebel quarters. Those  who know us, as all East Tennesseeans do, need not be enlighted on this subject, but those who have forgotten us, as most rebels have,  are entitled to the information... We are not here to excuse this or that act of the Washington Government; nor yet to censure Pres.  Lincoln...We indorse all he has done, and we find fault with him for not having done more of the same sort! The Federal Government  has been too lenient, and too slow to punish rebels, and to crush out this most abominable, wicked and uncalled for rebellion, from its  very commencement. The mediation we shall advocate, is that of the cannon and the sword, and our motto is - no armistice on sea or  land, until all, ALL the rebels, both front and rear, in arms, and in ambush, are subjugated or exterminated! And then we are for  visiting condign punishment upon the leaders in the rebellion, who may survive the struggle, in the unholy crusade against  civilization...They will try to do so again. Let them submit to the laws and Constitution of the Federal Government...or pack up their  effects and leave the country. Let them speedily...learn to behave themselves....” Voluminous reportage of the Civil War in all its  aspects. In first issue alone: “Union Men in Prisons,” “East Tennessee and the Rebellion,” “To East Tennessee Refugees,” “Refusing a  Compromise,” “Stop the Niggers!,” “How to Treat Enemies of the Union,” “Sending the Rebels South,” “Traitor Slidell on Slavery,” “The  Fugitive Slave Law,” “Selling White Boys South,” “Our Southern Traducers,” “Violating the Constitution,” “Origin of Arming the  Negroes,” “The Rebellion a Conspiracy,” and more. A front-page item in the third issue expounds on “Rebel Females”: “It is a well  known fact, that there are, in this city, a class of most hateful and disgusting rebel women - traitors to the Government, and as mean as  the men...There are two classes of them, however - one class is prudent, quiet and lady-like...the other...as brazen as the Devil, full of  impudence, flirting about, meddling in everybody’s affairs...These women...should be sent South, and made to stay there....” A modern  essay courtesy of the University of Tennessee sheds fascinating light on Brownlow: “Seemingly never in doubt about his own rectitude,  Brownlow regarded anyone who disagreed with him about religion or politics as an enemy. The circuit-riding Methodist parson turned  to the press to spread his harsh anti-Presbyterian, anti-Calvinist, anti-Baptist rhetoric, and to branch out into politics. Brownlow’s  speeches and publications drew both attention and anger. Founded in 1855, Brownlow’s Knoxville Whig expressed its owner’s fervently  held views on the inferiority of blacks and his unalterable opposition to secession. In 1861, Brownlow’s criticism of the Confederacy led  the government to shut down the Brownlow’s Weekly Whig for two years. On December 6 of that year, Brownlow was arrested on a  charge of high treason against the Confederacy. Brownlow spent much of 1862 touring the North, giving pro-Union, invective-spiced  lectures. When he returned to Knoxville in the fall of 1863, the federal government provided him with a press, some type, $1,500, and a  government printing contract. On November 11, 1863, the first issue of the weekly Brownlow’s Knoxville Whig, and Rebel Ventilator  rolled off the press. “Brownlow used the paper to attack the secessionists as ‘the negro-worshipping aristocracy [and] the cotton and  tobacco-planting lords.’ He declared that the ‘halter’ (noose) should be used against the rebellion’s leaders, and he backed Lincoln’s  Emancipation Proclamation. Thus, the political trajectory of Brownlow’s editorials had changed from southern Whig in the 1840s to  radical Republican by the mid-1860s. In 1864, Brownlow was a force in the convention that abolished slavery in Tennessee and that led  to the creation of a new state government. The Unionists won control of the Tennessee legislature, and Brownlow was elected governor  in April 1865. Hatred of Brownlow and the Unionists became more intense as laws were passed to disenfranchise those who supported  the Confederacy and to give blacks the vote... Brownlow’s pugnacious editorial stances and willingness to meet violence with violence  made him famous and earned him the nickname, ‘The Fighting Parson.’ “In the 1830s, before he started newspapering, he was sued for  libel and shot in a religious dispute. In the years that followed, Brownlow was shot at through a window in his home, shot in the leg  during a fistfight, beaten at a camp meeting after his derringer misfired, and severely injured by two attacks with clubs. One of his  newspaper’s slogans sums up both his journalism and his life, ‘Independent in all things—Neutral in nothing.’”--  chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/essays/369/ Almost all of the advertisements are of Cincinnati merchants. Most issues with contemporary  name “Fred. A. Dreer, Goldsmith Hall” at blank top margin in ink or pencil, possibly the “gentleman” and jeweler in Philadelphia.  Varying wear at original quarter folds, with occasional fine tears through letters but no loss of text; some dust-toning, edge wear, other  relatively minor defects, else generally good plus to fine. Library of Congress’ Chronicling America database locates only five runs of  issue nos. 1-13 (American Antiquarian Society, Library of Congress, Western Reserve, Wisconsin Historical, and Yale). Ex-Mendoza’s  Book Shop, the then-oldest book store in Manhattan, still illuminated with gaslight as late as the 1970s. An unusual gathering, both for  its content and relative completeness. $3500-4500 (21 issues) 

6-4. For Sale – Woman and 18-Month-Old Child.

Group of four newspapers from post-Revolutionary War America: Independent Gazeteer or Chronicles of Freedom, May 28, 1785, 4 pp.  Slave reward of $4 for “negro lad named Abraham.” Advertisement for “Moses Cohen, Broker,” moved “nearly opposite the Friends’  Meeting....” 8” of one column lacking from second leaf. • The Spectator, Oct. 6, 1798, 2 pp. Article, “Declaration, Resolutions &  Constitution of Societies of United Irishmen.” $40 reward for runaway negro man. Some foxing. • The Public Advertiser, July 6, 1808,  4 pp. “Ran away, a mulatto girl of 13, reward $5....” • The North American, Nov. 30, 1808, 4 pp. “For sale - Mulatto Woman & her Child,  about 18 months old.” Some wear, last with waterstains, else good and better. $90-120 (4 pcs.) 

6-5. The Captured Treasure of Jeff Davis.

Group of five Civil War-era newspapers: Boston Daily Advertiser, July 12, 1862, oversize. Death of Mrs. Beauregard; status of slaves;  McClellan. Left portion softly rippled from vertical storage. • Lowell Daily Citizen & News, Mass., Sept. 5, 1863. News from Charleston  and Savannah. • Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 18, 1864. Escape from Libby Prison; Gen. Longstreet. • Vermont Watchman & State  Journal, June 2, 1865, oversize. Jeff Davis moved to new cell; news of Sherman, Howard, and Custer. • New York Herald, Oct. 10, 1865.  Colored troops leave Kentucky; captured treasure of Jeff Davis; earthquake in San Francisco; rights of freedmen in Miss. Clean and  very good and better. $90-120 (5 pcs.)

6-6. Mary Lincoln through the Years.

Highly interesting ensemble of nine newspapers, all with Mrs. Lincoln content, from trivial to tragic: N.Y. Herald, Dec. 21, 1865.  Payment to Mrs. Lincoln. • Phila. Inquirer, Oct. 14, 1867. Pres. Lincoln’s estate. • Luzerne Union, May 13, 1868. Book about Mrs.  Lincoln, disclosing that her debts were not known to the Pres., mention of her jewelry collection, and rivalry of Douglas and Lincoln for  her hand. • Record of the Times, Wilkes-Barre, Dec. 1, 1869, May 29, July 2, and July 10, 1875, all oversize. Gossip on her remarriage to  a German nobleman; sad discourses on her “sanity,” “mental disorder,” and how she spends her day. • Elmira Advertiser, June 3, 1892.  Interview of Withers, the conductor at Ford’s Theatre at time of the assassination; he was almost killed that night as well. 4-8 pp. ea.,  variously. Some toning and wear, but satisfactory to very good. $140-180 (9 pcs.) 

6-7. “Running the machine of government outside of the Constitution....”

Excessively rare newspaper, Natchez (Miss.) Tri-Weekly Courier, Feb. 21, 1868, Vol. I, No. 21, 4 pp., 11½ x 16¼. Front-page news by  telegraph: “The Tribune of this morning hoists the name of Grant for the Presidency... after waiting and much labor to secure greater  harmony and unanimity among the republican [lower case] party of Louisiana.” “Gen. Gillem is making all possible efforts to assist the  suffering of all classes...” Finding of a 35-inch-round vertebrae of a mastodon on the Kentucky River; “it must have belonged to an  animal of gigantic proportions even among mastodons.” “It has been discovered that the grossest frauds were committed by the  radicals at the late Alabama election. At one precinct in Mobile the ballot box was twice opened with a key, and once broken  open...Negroes were allowed to vote in white men’s names....” Inside, “The old-fashioned and almost obsolete instrument, once called  the Constitution of the U.S., declared that the judicial power should be vested in one Supreme Court...Of course [Sen.] Trumbull’s bill  violates the Constitution, but what care he, or his radical abettors? They are running the machine of government outside of the  Constitution, and mean to do so. The majority in Congress is composed of conspirators and revolutionists against the organic law they  have sworn to support....” “At the session of the reconstruction committee, democrats and extreme radicals voted together against the  Bingham and Sherman bills to admit Alabama....” “The Lincoln national monument is to represent the late lamented in the center of a  group - four negroes surrounding him....” Lengthy article, “Gen. Grant’s Surrender”: “...Had he been in Maj. Anderson’s place in Ft.  Sumter, would he have held the post any less tenaciously?...It would have been no excuse to Maj. Anderson for surrendering Ft. Sumter  that all the lawyers in the land told him the law required him to evacuate....” Two unusual advertisements for valentines: “Valentines! A  splendid assortment, in great variety...Comic and sentimental...,” together with plantation time books. Advertisement of Natchez  Mayor seeking “one competent, white person” to protect city’s graveyard. Auction of “five boxes sardines” received by steamboat the  previous year, unclaimed. Illustrated ad for “Colgate & Co.’s German Erasive Soap.” Uniform toning, darker at top left quarter panel of  p. 1, fold wear, affecting only few words at central junction, two old misfolds, else good plus, and very scarce. Once boasting more  millionaires than New York City, the venerable city of Natchez was a real-life Tara in the postwar years, some of its properties in ruins,  and once-wealthy families in dire circumstances. No copies of this issue, neither original nor microfilm, located by WorldCat. Possibly  unique. $325-425

6-8. First Ladies in Old Newspapers.

Absorbing group of sixteen newspapers, with content covering eight First Ladies, 1844-92. Comprising: Mrs. Cleveland in 1 issue  Elmira Daily Advertiser, 1896. Levee at the White House. • Mrs. Garfield in 3 issues Wilkes-Barre Record and Daily Union Leader,  1882. On her pension, $400,000 received, printing a letter from her. • Mrs. Grant in 6 issues Cincinnati Commercial, Salem Observer,  Elmira Advertiser, and Luzerne (Pa.) Union, 1869-92. Including charming evaluation of the new First Lady, 1½ columns on White  House reception, Nellie’s wedding, and more. • Mrs. Benjamin Harrison in 2 issues Elmira Advertiser, 1892. Obituary. • Mrs. Hayes in 1  issue Elmira Advertiser, 1890. Obituary. • Mrs. Polk in 1 issue Elmira Advertiser, 1891. Obituary. • Mrs. Tyler in 2 issues, Salem  Register and Manufacturers and Farmers Journal, Providence, R.I., 1844-45. Reception at Executive Mansion with description of Pres.  and Mrs. Tyler, and Mrs. Tyler’s party for her daughter. • Mrs. Martha Washington in 1 issue Salem Observer, 1851. Describing long-  ago visit to Martha Washington, finding her wearing an apron while knitting stockings for herself and George. Before her guests left,  she counseled them on importance of doing tasks for oneself, as future contacts with the home country would lessen availability of  products. • Plus, Mrs. William T. Sherman in 1 issue Daily Record of the Times, Wilkes-Barre, 1875. Defending the General. • Mrs.  Edwin Stanton in 1 issue same, 1875. Commenting on Henry Ward Beecher scandal. Much of the First Ladies-related content is on page  1. Issues 2-8 pp. ea., variously. Elmira issues with characteristic browning; others with occasional wear and edge tears, else generally  good plus to fine, and clean. Request full list. $170-270 (18 pcs.) 

6-9. What America was Reading in the 19th Century.

Group of twelve: Harper’s Weekly, Oct. 3, 1863. Siege of Charleston, Gen. Rosecrans’ operations, double-page woodcut of the obscure  Battle of Raccoon Ford. • Harper’s Bazaar, Jan. 5, Jan. 20, and June 22, 1878. Including Custer. • Gleason’s Pictorial, July 2, 1851, Jan.  8 and Oct. 1, 1853. Presidential, First Ladies, and more. • Spirit of the Times, N.Y., July 2, Aug. 6, Sept. 3, 1853, Sept. 16, 1854, Sept. 11,  1858. California, Gold Rush, sports. Removed from bindings, some edge toning, else V.G. and clean. Add ambiance to your parlor!  $140-180 (12 pcs.)

6-10. All Aboard the Jack Pack Train.

Rare territorial newspaper, The Colorado Miner, Georgetown, Colo., Apr. 23, 1868, Vol. 1, No. 47, 12½ x 20, 4 pp. Much local mining  content: “The one thing needful to bring out this silver region, is more reduction works. So long as the treatment of the ores is confined  to the works of one or two companies, causing little or no competition, just so long will our miners lack confidence in the prices  offered...Competition in the purchase of ores, is all that is necessary to give a new impetus to mining enterprise here....” Fascinating  ads, including “Dealers and Brokers in Gold & Silver Mines,” analytical chemists, saloons, pianos, new general store (“all goods sold  very low for cash”), “Ashley Franklin’s Jack Pack Train...Ores packed on the shortest possible notice. Snake River transportation, riding  animals and extra pack animals...,” notice “To Producers of Gold and Silver Bullion” from Supt. of U.S. Mint at Denver reducing charge  for melting and assaying to ¼ of 1%. Warning of fraudulent title of the “Charlie Jones lode...near the top of Alpine mountain, south  of...Taylor gulch.” “Retail Market Report” with town prices for Colorado flour, corn, “Cheese - Western Reserve,” dried apples, prunes,  and two kinds of fuses! Nearly full-col. ad for “Shortest and Quickest Route to the East - The Chicago & North Western Railway...Two  daily trains will leave Cheyenne Station by the Union Pacific R.R., on arrival of Wells, Fargo & Co.’s Mail....” News briefs: “Fourteen and  a half feet of snow fell in Central Park...N.Y. has over 60,000 persons in want of employment. Why don’t they come to the Rocky  Mountains?...Drunkenness is an egg from which all vices may be hatched....” Small thin spot at bottom right first leaf, much  waterstaining, wear, but quite satisfactory, and fascinating. “Present day Georgetown contains more than two hundred 19th century  structures, an incomparable collection of western bonanza architecture”--town.georgetown.co.us. Evidently unique; the Library of  Congress’ Chronicling America database finds no original examples of this issue. $125-175 

6-11. Mormon Polygamy, and Fighting in Salt Lake City – and Syria.

The Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, May 1, 1872, about 11½ x 15½, (16) pp. A wealth of news printed by Mormons, about  Mormons, the country, and the world. Front page, “The Legal War against the Mormons.” “The chair in which John Adams sat when he  signed the Declaration of Independence will be sent to Cincinnati for the use of the presiding officer of the Liberal Convention.” “A mob  of 75 or 100 armed men, some masked, stopped the eastward bound train on the Missouri & Kansas & Texas railway...and  murdered...presiding Judge when the recent bond excitement was raised....” “N.Y.: The first of the new crop of India rice arrived  yesterday...via the Suez Canal, which saves nearly three months’ time in transit.” “...After May 1, the ten word minimum on messages  between the Western Union offices and Great Britain and Ireland will be abolished...Our present rate...for 10 words is $13....” Extensive  account of seventh day of Mormons’ General Conference, with nearly full-page address of Brigham Young: “...How do you think I look  after my long confinement?...Have you nothing to say, Brother Brigham, concerning the Supreme Court of the United States?...There  are yet men in our government who are too highminded, too pure in their thoughts ...to bow down to a sectarian prejudice...Have they  decided in favor of the Latter-day Saints? Yes. Why? Because the Latter-day Saints are on the track of truth; they are for law, for  right...And a man who sits as Pres. of the U.S...who would reduce himself to the...narrow, contracted views of partyism, is not fit for the  place...I have said a few words about lawyers; but I could pick up other classes of men just as bad....” “Revs. Calhoun and Jessup,  missionaries in Syria, telegraph that Antioch and villages are destroyed, the survivors are perishing, contributions are needed.” “The  Senate Committee on Territories have about concluded consideration of the bill to prevent polygamy in Utah....” “Trouble at Salt  Lake...The recent decision...against the Mormons in Judge McKean’s Court has aroused the worst features of Mormondom, the baser  element of which, jubilant at the result, is on the rampage...The Gentiles are arming themselves...Several street fights have occurred....”  Many Salt Lake City ads, including “Cutting by the Celebrated Curtis Mathematical Models” to make clothing at home. Light soiling p.  1, small tear at center affecting a few words; right margins somewhat tattered, lower right portion of last three leaves crinkled but  flattenable, with one internal tear, some insect spots in blank margin of several leaves, but still good plus. The Deseret News’  combination of incisive stories and layout make it one of the more engaging American newspapers of the 19th century. $75-100 

6-12. “‘Merica man and ‘Merica woman” in Liberia.

Rare black-themed newspaper, Africa’s Luminary, printed in Monrovia, Liberia, Nov. 15, 1839, Vol. I, No. 17. 12¼ x 17¾, 4 pp.  Masthead wood engraving showing two black men being shown the way, by a white, to Salvation - a newspaper held by a woman  hoisting Liberty cap, an ancient printing press behind. Highly unusual title, edited by John Seys, published “by a committee for the  Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.” Letter to editor on “murder of one of our American boys by the natives of Little  Bassa. Just before the expedition that was fitted out by our governor for Little Bassa to break up a slaver’s establishment... he was  caught by the natives and murdered after two days’ imprisonment...He said to them, ‘men, what is the matter!’ They said to him, ‘the  ’Mericans, your brothers have come from the cape (meaning Mesurado) [near Monrovia] and taken all our strangers’ money (meaning  the slavers’ goods) and you shall die to pay for it...‘Merica man be ‘Merica man’....” Mention of slavery in China; Spanish slave ship  captured in Barbados. Discussion of difficulty traveling in interior of Africa, believing it degrading to pay Africans to carry white men.  “We all arrived safely, and were kindly and affectionately received. The native brethren and sisters, men, women, and children, ran out  to meet and welcome us...truly rejoiced at seeing so many ‘Merica man and ‘Merica woman....” Obituary of Solomon Bayley, born a  slave in Delaware, migrating to Liberia, becoming a preacher. Old soft folds, minor foxing, else fine. $125-175 

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