2005-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/31/2005
Autograph Letter Signed, “Geo. Bliss” 1p. quarto, Wooster, Ohio, April 1865, addressed to M.D. Phillips, and reads in part: “...Our little community is shocked by he aspect ‘of a new gorgou” exhibited in the assassination of President Lincoln and Secretary Seward a horrid illustration of the bloody and vindictive spirit of the times upon which our country has fallen. As by the constitution the chief executive office inures to Andrew Johnson of evil renown, the American people may reasonably dipricate the cup which crime under the permission of Providence has commanded to their lips...
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