Property from the Eric C. Caren Collection(TEXAS)A broadside circular announcing formation of a Massachusetts State Committee to resist the admission of Texas as a Slave State. Boston, 10 Court Street: 3 November 1845 Printed broadside, 1 page, 4to (9 7/8 x 8 in.; 250 x 203 mm). Text printed in two columns, signed in type by 39 individuals, including Elihu Burritt, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, John Greenleaf Whittier, and others; small chip to left margin, two tiny pinholes, minor soiling to verso. The consignor has independently obtained a letter of authenticity from PSA that will accompany the lot. "The undersigned were appointed 'to act as a State Committee, to resist the admission of Texas as a Slave State.' In this capacity we have prepared an Address to the people of Massachusetts and the free States." The present circular letter announces a meeting "without distinction of party," which was held in Cambridge on 21 October 1845, and the subsequent formation of a committee to take action to prevent the incorporation of Texas into the United States. The members of the committee argue: "There is no reasonable doubt that, within two months from this time, the foreign slave nation of Texas will be actually incorporated with these United States, or else the measure will be defeated, and the hope of accomplishing it dismissed forever. If the Representatives in Congress from the free States do their duty, it will be defeated. Their voice is but the echo of that of the people..." The circular offers an articulate and eloquent plea to Massachusetts' public officials, with its authors asserting: "Permit us to remind you that the question now presented does not relate to any measure of interference with the institutions of other States, or with compromises of the Federal Constitution. The present question is, whether, by admitting Texas into the Union with its proposed Constitution, the free States will consent to build up slavery again in a country where it was abolished..." The circular was distributed about a month before the 29th Congress reconvened. Massachusetts representative John Quincy Adams, leader of the anti-slavery movement in Congress, had fought to block the admission of Texas, which he said would leave the Constitution "a monstrous rag." Despite his continued efforts, Texas was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on 29 December 1845.Condition ReportCondition as described in catalogue entry. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
Property from the Eric C. Caren Collection(TEXAS)A broadside circular announcing formation of a Massachusetts State Committee to resist the admission of Texas as a Slave State. Boston, 10 Court Street: 3 November 1845 Printed broadside, 1 page, 4to (9 7/8 x 8 in.; 250 x 203 mm). Text printed in two columns, signed in type by 39 individuals, including Elihu Burritt, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, John Greenleaf Whittier, and others; small chip to left margin, two tiny pinholes, minor soiling to verso. The consignor has independently obtained a letter of authenticity from PSA that will accompany the lot. "The undersigned were appointed 'to act as a State Committee, to resist the admission of Texas as a Slave State.' In this capacity we have prepared an Address to the people of Massachusetts and the free States." The present circular letter announces a meeting "without distinction of party," which was held in Cambridge on 21 October 1845, and the subsequent formation of a committee to take action to prevent the incorporation of Texas into the United States. The members of the committee argue: "There is no reasonable doubt that, within two months from this time, the foreign slave nation of Texas will be actually incorporated with these United States, or else the measure will be defeated, and the hope of accomplishing it dismissed forever. If the Representatives in Congress from the free States do their duty, it will be defeated. Their voice is but the echo of that of the people..." The circular offers an articulate and eloquent plea to Massachusetts' public officials, with its authors asserting: "Permit us to remind you that the question now presented does not relate to any measure of interference with the institutions of other States, or with compromises of the Federal Constitution. The present question is, whether, by admitting Texas into the Union with its proposed Constitution, the free States will consent to build up slavery again in a country where it was abolished..." The circular was distributed about a month before the 29th Congress reconvened. Massachusetts representative John Quincy Adams, leader of the anti-slavery movement in Congress, had fought to block the admission of Texas, which he said would leave the Constitution "a monstrous rag." Despite his continued efforts, Texas was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on 29 December 1845.Condition ReportCondition as described in catalogue entry. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
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