2005-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/31/2005
Letter group, totaling 9 pages (one letter partial), dated August 20, 1856, August 25, 1856 and October 4, 1856, all from Reading, PA, all written on blue lined paper and all from C. W. Ladel to a cousin. The letters are almost exclusively concerned with politics, Ladel's hatred of slavery, but belief in the Union saying, in part, "...Now what did Fillmore do when acting President by the will of God - that he should receive bitter curses...upon his silvery Head by the northern Republican Disunionists? Why he signed that Fugitive Slave Act. Supposing he had not signed that act. What would have been our condition as a people now! Would we have been the prosperous & growing people we really are. No...I love Mr. Fillmore not because he is a friend to the north nor the south, but because he is a friend to our whole country..." Some discoloration and some separation at folds. A fine set of correspondence with extensive political content.
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