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A Republican On Slavery, Secession And Bleeding Kansas

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A Republican On Slavery, Secession And Bleeding Kansas
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Autograph Letter Sigend, “K.A. Hayes. Two pages, 7 3/4” x 9 3/4” Grasshopper Falls. November 30, 1860. Hayes writes, in part: “ … It is true our little barks upon the sea of life have been widely separated and it seems strange that floating as they did upon different seas they should land so near together yet such is life. How little we know of the future and how widely different from our most wild dreams of childhood is the reality. The last I knew of you until I received your letter was as a student of the law in Erie Pa., and now I find you a I find you a ‘limb’ of the same in ‘Bleeding’ and Starving Kansas. My course has been hardly less diversified than you own, although I did not venture to show my Republican head in any locality where my peculiar views of the ‘peculiar system’ would be apt to bring my Choking Place [?] … Speaking of division & secession I do not feel any way concerned as I think the South know too well what is for their interests, that is the masses. I look upon it as only as an effort of the office seekers and prominent men who have so far committed themselves to retreat without an effort seemingly to carry into effect what they have threatened …” Nice slavery and secession content written in the Shadow of the coming Civil War. Usual folds. Overall Extremely Fine.