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SYLVESTER PATTIE.
Document Signed. Promissory Note with Pattie signing as witness. No place, October 20, 1800. 1 p., 7Âľ x 2Âľ Docketed on the verso and signed by Boyd with his mark. War of 1812 veteran Sylvester Pattie witnessed this promissory note for "John Boyd or order on demand four pound four Shilling for value received."
Originally from Kentucky, Pattie and his son, James Ohio Pattie, took a small expedition throughout the Southwest in 1824. At the time, the territory belonged to Mexico, and the party was exploring a little-known route through the area and encountered Indians who had never seen white men and proceeded to steal their horses. The party had a large number of furs confiscated by the Mexican Governor in Santa Fe, New Mexico, under the pretense of hunting without a license. Nevertheless, the Governor gave them a passport for safe passage through Mexican territory.

When the party arrived in San Diego, the Governor there rejected the passport, accused them of spying… Read More

"Our Convention having gone off half cocked, after the nomination of the noble Abraham we had nothing else to do, but endorse what they did, and adopt this modern bogus 'Moses.'"

"The infliction of Andy upon us was after all a probable God Send. Mr Lincoln would have adapted himself to events probably, and his noble heart would have stopped far short of what is now, as inevitable as death."

Written on March 2, 1868, the day the House of Representatives approved the first nine articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, this letter reflects on the responsibility for his 1864 nomination as vice presidential candidate and the villainy of his rule, and expresses the hope that African American voters would yet save the nation. Congressman Arrick apparently did not count on Johnson's acquittal. [ANDREW JOHNSON]. CLIFFORD ARRICK.
Autograph Letter Signed, to James T. Ames, March 2, 1868, Washington, D.C. On U.S. House of Representatives stationery. 5 pp., 5 x 8 in.
Complete… Read More

BELLE BOYD.
Photographic Negative. Sized for a carte-de-visite, 2½ x 3Âľ in. Matthew Brady's Washington, D.C. Gallery, ca. mid-1860s. Archivally framed and secured in protective glass, 11 x 12½ in. Isabella Marie "Belle" Boyd (1844 – 1900) was one of the most famous and notorious Confederate spies. Boyd became an espionage agent at the age seventeen, aiding the Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley, and operating her spying operations from her father's hotel in Front Royal, Virginia. During the spring 1862 Valley Campaign, she was a courier and provided valuable information to Generals Turner Ashby and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. A bold and daring young woman, Belle, at times, galloped headlong into the dark with cipher messages and even crept into rooms to eavesdrop on Union Army conferences. General Jackson made her a captain and honorary aide-de-camp on his staff. After being betrayed by her lover, she was arrested on July 29, 1862, and spent a month in the Old Capitol… Read More

Pennsylvania founder William Penn supported James II during the Glorious Revolution, James's attempt to regain the English throne. When William and Mary ascended the throne, Penn was suspected of treason. [WILLIAM PENN].
Newspaper. The London Gazette, February 9, 1690, 2 pp., 6ÂĽ x 11ÂĽ in.
"A Proclamation For Discovering and Apprehending the late Bishop of Ely, William Penn, and James Grahme."

"…William Penn, Esquire...have designed & endeavoured to depose their Majesties & subvers the government of this Kingdom by procuring an invasion of the same by the French, & other treasonable practices...for which cause several warrants for High Treason have been issued out against them, but they have withdrawn themselves from their usual places of abode and are fled from justice…" (p. 1, col. 1).

With other news from late 17th century London.

Historical Background

William Penn (1644-1718) rejected his Anglican faith and joined the Society of Friends when he was 22 years old. His chagrined… Read More

"To free by pardon or on parole the Colored soldiers of the gallant 24th in Fort Leavenworth federal prison already so long for retaliation, poorly proven or not proven at all, against goading insult and provocation and insult to women of their race. We do now ask whether you will grant this special plea for clemency."
The Secretary of the National Equal Rights League writes to a Massachusetts state senator asking for his support for clemency for black soldiers imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth. The drive on behalf of soldiers convicted of participation in the 1917 Houston riot, resulted in 124,000 signatures, and reduction in the sentences of the 54 soldiers still in prison. (19 of the soldiers had already been executed).
WILLIAM MONROE TROTTER. Typed Letter Signed, to Albert P. Wadleigh, Boston, February 1, 1924. With a blank printed petition to President Calvin Coolidge, and an envelope to return the petition to the National Equal Rights League in Boston. 2 pp.

Excerpts:
"On Oct. 6 this League… Read More

"I set out with a determination to make no pledges – If the Anti Masons rely upon my openly avowed opinions against Masonry one would suppose that they ought to be satisfied with the certainty of their having a full proportion of my confidences."

Future U.S. President William Henry Harrison demonstrates exceptional political acumen by revealing his credo not to make pledges, and is keenly aware that his actions to get nominated may be used against him in the actual campaign. Harrison also resents that Anti-Masonic leader Thaddeus Stevens, is "determined to support [Daniel] Webster under any circumstances or any person but any old Jeffersonian Democrat like myself." WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON.
Autograph Letter Signed, to William Ayres. Cincinnati, Ohio, November 25, 1835. 4 pp., 7½ x 12 in.
Partial Transcript:

"I received yesterday a letter from Mr. [Thaddeus] Stevens...He declines publishing my letter because, as he says, it will create an insurmountable barrier between the Anti-Masons &… Read More

"I am brought in Debt upon the Treasury Books…by stopping my salary…and leaving me to maintain myself in London…while I was employed under the orders of the President in the affairs of the Maryland Bank stock…" WILLIAM PINKNEY.
Autograph Letter Signed, Baltimore, January 11, 1815, to Richard Forrest.
Complete Transcript "Baltimore. Jany 11. 1815
Dear Sir,
I do not owe the Government one farthing as Commissioner under the 7th article of Mr. Jay's Treaty – and will not accept of any compensation upon that offer now.
The way in which I am brought in Debt upon the Treasury Books on that score is by stopping my salary immediately upon the closing of the Commission and leaving me to maintain myself in London until the month of August following while I was employed under the orders of the President in the affairs of the Maryland Bank stock.- I sent you some time ago a full statement upon that business - with an account of the Credit which I expected and… Read More

"If there is one measure better calculated than another to produce that state of things so much deprecated by all true republicans, by which the rich are daily adding to their hoards and the poor sinking deeper into penury, it is an exclusive metallic currency...."

"Always the friend of my countrymen, never their flatterer, it becomes my duty to say to them … that there exists in the land a spirit hostile to their best interests--hostile to liberty itself.... It is union that we want, not of a party for the sake of that party, but a union of the whole country for the sake of the whole country, for the defense of its interests and its honor against foreign aggression, for the defense of those principles for which our ancestors so gloriously contended...."

On a cold, wet day, March 4, 1841, President Harrison delivered the longest inaugural address in history. Contracting pneumonia, 31 days later he was the first president to die in office. This same-day National Intelligencer broadside… Read More

This "ticket" allowed male voters to express their belief that "the vote should be granted to the Women of New York."
[WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE]. Printed Document. Ticket of Support for Women's Suffrage. New York: New York State Woman Suffrage Party, ca. 1915-1917. 1 p., 4Âľ x 3 in.

Complete Transcript
The New York State Woman Suffrage Party
Headquarters, 303 5th Avenue, New York City
I, _________________________________________________________
of _______________________ Street _______________________ City
believe that the vote should be granted to the Women of New York.
__________________________ County
Assembly District ___________ Election District __________
Historical Background
Carrie Chapman Catt founded the New York State Woman Suffrage Party in 1909 at the Convention of Disfranchised Women. By 1915, the Woman Suffrage Party had 100,000 members, and that summer, suffragists organized 5,225 outdoor meetings, 13 concerts, and 28 parades and processions. A referendum in October 1915 lost, when 58… Read More