Raynors HCA 2017-02
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LAWRENCE, William Beach (1800-1881) was a wealthy politician and jurist, born in New York City, graduated from Columbia, and moved to Rhode Island. Autograph Letter Signed, “W.B. Lawrence ,” Ochre Point, Newport, November 25, 1872, 4pp., to Rhode Island Senator Henry B. Anthony (former Governor), VG. In part, “... while the events of the late elections and the matters, which preceeded it, induce me to think that the question of a constitutional amedmt does not stand precisely as it did some months since. The utter dissolution of the Democratic party, by the insane nomination of Greeley, gives to General Grant the power of retaining his position, by repeated election, as long as he may desire it. ... here is another element not hereafter to be overlooked & that is the negro vote – the negroes are naturally disposed to support those who are in power & whom they invest with superior dignity, on account of the possession of power. Moreover, the extraordinary denouement of the Cincinnati Convention has placed in bold relief the mode most unsatisfactory to an intelligent people, by which party conventions are constituted & which are readily made, the instruments of the vilest partisan combinations, carried on by men without character & without principle.
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