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Auction archive: Lot number 106

Autograph Letter Signed from John McLean while Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court - who dissented on the Dred Scott fugitive slave case

Estimate
US$250 - US$350
Price realised:
US$390
Auction archive: Lot number 106

Autograph Letter Signed from John McLean while Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court - who dissented on the Dred Scott fugitive slave case

Estimate
US$250 - US$350
Price realised:
US$390
Beschreibung:

Title: Autograph Letter Signed from John McLean while Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court - who dissented on the Dred Scott fugitive slave case Author: McLean, John Place: Cincinnati, Ohio Publisher: Date: July 24, 1852 Description: 1 pp. + stampless leaf. Written to James Goodwin of Hartford. Goodwin was an insurance company executive who was married to J.P. Morgan's aunt. “We are surprised, at Cincinnati, to learn from a distance that the city is sickly. I… am in the city every day, and I have not heard one of the citizens speak of its being unhealthy; on the contrary…I do not know that I have ever known it to be more healthy than it now is, at this season of the year….” Justice McLean had lived in “healthy” Cincinnati for nearly fifty years, since he began his legal career there at the time of the Louisiana Purchase. After representing Ohio in the US Congress during the War of 1812, he served in Washington as Postmaster General in the cabinets of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams. Andrew Jackson appointed him to the US Supreme Court in 1829 and he remained on the bench for more than. Five years after he wrote this letter, McLean was one of two dissenting Justices in the Dred Scott fugitive slave decision who maintained that free Negroes were citizens of the United States. In 1860, McLean sought the Republican nomination for President, but lost to Abraham Lincoln. A year later, he died – in Cincinnati – the week the Civil War began. Lot Amendments Condition: A bit of yellowing to stampless address leaf; very good. Item number: 231226

Auction archive: Lot number 106
Auction:
Datum:
15 Nov 2012
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Autograph Letter Signed from John McLean while Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court - who dissented on the Dred Scott fugitive slave case Author: McLean, John Place: Cincinnati, Ohio Publisher: Date: July 24, 1852 Description: 1 pp. + stampless leaf. Written to James Goodwin of Hartford. Goodwin was an insurance company executive who was married to J.P. Morgan's aunt. “We are surprised, at Cincinnati, to learn from a distance that the city is sickly. I… am in the city every day, and I have not heard one of the citizens speak of its being unhealthy; on the contrary…I do not know that I have ever known it to be more healthy than it now is, at this season of the year….” Justice McLean had lived in “healthy” Cincinnati for nearly fifty years, since he began his legal career there at the time of the Louisiana Purchase. After representing Ohio in the US Congress during the War of 1812, he served in Washington as Postmaster General in the cabinets of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams. Andrew Jackson appointed him to the US Supreme Court in 1829 and he remained on the bench for more than. Five years after he wrote this letter, McLean was one of two dissenting Justices in the Dred Scott fugitive slave decision who maintained that free Negroes were citizens of the United States. In 1860, McLean sought the Republican nomination for President, but lost to Abraham Lincoln. A year later, he died – in Cincinnati – the week the Civil War began. Lot Amendments Condition: A bit of yellowing to stampless address leaf; very good. Item number: 231226

Auction archive: Lot number 106
Auction:
Datum:
15 Nov 2012
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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