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"If the voice of the people of the whole United States is to be stifled and set aside by three or fo
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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2016 Jan 05 @ 20:00UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT
Important group of five A.Ls.S. of James William Denver, namesake of the eponymous Colorado city, three of the letters - consuming about 9 pp. - with his scathing insider's views of the bitterly contested 1876 Presidential election. All from his law office in Washington, D.C., Jan. 5, 25, Feb. 2, 18, and Mar. 5, 1877. In the final letter, penned on Inauguration Day, Denver has especially vituperative observations on the state of politics, and the future of America. 8 x 10, 19 pp. in all. To his wife in Wilmington, Ohio. Four signed "Will," one signed "J.W. Denver." One with envelope, bearing his printed cornercard, 1115 Penna. Ave., addressed in his hand to "Mrs. L.C. Denver...." Jan. 5, 1877: "Yesterday a very sad event occurred next door. A gentleman from Philadelphia was here visiting a friend who is engaged in the auction of silver plated ware. They were in the store and wanting a drink of water, without asking any questions, he took a draught from a vessel containing, as he supposed, drinking water, but in reality a mixture of the most deadly chemicals, and which are used as a bath for cleansing the silver ware. He was hurried over to the drugstore... physicians called...but...two hours after...he was dead...A great deal of amusement with Eliza and Connie about their purchases. They think everything they got better than that bought by anybody else. It was very funny...The counting of the Presidential vote is going on slowly. It is thought the Florida question will be settled tomorrow or the next day, and if it is decided in favor of Tilden as most people, Republicans as well as Democrats believe, there will not be much further serious contest. 'Cataloguer's note: In fact, the winner - by a vote of 185 to 184 - would not be announced til Mar. 2.] The investigation into the Louisiana crookedness is still going on, and much damaging testimony is being taken against the returning board. Since writing the foregoing I have been up to the Capitol and find that nothing in the way of business...will be acted on until the Presidential question is settled. Poor Mrs. Nutt! I fear she will go crazy when she learns this...The Presidential question is most undoubtedly of more importance to the country at large than any private matter...."
Jan. 25: "Tonight I went to the meeting of the Burns Club at Masonic Temple...to celebrate the 118th anniversary of Robert Burns. After the bagpipes had screamed and screetched through several airs, we had the 'Welcome' then (of) some very good music and singing, then as poor an address as I ever listened to by the Hon. John Wilson, M.C. from Iowa. It seems he is terribly bothered to understand the rules of the House of Reps., of which he is a member...Then he went off to Longfellow so as to be able to inject into his address a paraphrase on the troublesome rules, after the style of Hiawatha. It was a most lame and impotent address - without spirit, without imagination, without the slightest comprehension of Burns...Last night the Senate was in session all night on the Electoral Bill and did not get to a vote until after 7 o'clock this morning...Willie 'Denver's son] has again neglected writing to me. Now one thing is certain, he must attend to his studies and write to me regularly as he promised, or I must find another school for him where he will be compelled to study. If when I return home I find he has not advanced, as he should, he shall not go to school in Wilmington 'Ohio] any more. I am determined that he shall not be a dunce if I can help it, but if he is determined that he will be a dunce then he had better dispense with schooling all together, and go to work on the farm...." * Feb. 2: Lengthy description of fancy fruit dish centerpieces and items he has sent by express. "...The clock is an eight day clock for your room. I got several things that I did not intend to buy, for instance the smaller soup tureen, but I made a bid ($8) and nobody bid more...All these articles are of the very best quality of silver plated ware. That they are being sold at auction does not detract from them in the least. They are all triple plated and made by the Taunton Silver Plating Co. of Mass...No better plated ware can be had anywhere, and fearing that such bargains might not be had again I have made the purchases in advance of your silver wedding day...Politicians are all on the qui vive, watching every turn in the Presidential muddle. The opinion seems to be gaining ground that Mr. Tilden will be our next President. Within the past two or three days developments have been made of a kind very damaging to the Republicans, and it seems impossible for them to escape. The count of the Electoral vote was begun by Congress yesterday and they stopped on Florida. It may require a week to decide this case, and should it be decided in favor of Tilden that will settle the question...."
Feb. 18: "The deed is done and the American people are to be cheated out of their choice for the Presidency. Fraud and rascality are to be made respectable. Three judges of the Supreme Court of the U.S. have declared that no evidence shall be introduced to uncover and expose election frauds, but that the most infamous frauds that were ever perpetrated shall be legalized. It was well known that the evidence offered was sufficient to prove the most outrageous frauds, and to establish the fact conclusively that the people of Florida and Louisiana had elected the Democratic electors, and the only way the Commission could avoid so declaring was to refuse to receive the evidence, and they did it. The Democrats are simply dum(b)founded at the audacity of the act; while the Republicans are too much surprised even to rejoice at it, for they did not expect it. All or nearly all the testimony taken had been published, and it was well known to have established the Democratic majorities in those two states, and thereby established the election of Tilden and Hendricks...I have not yet seen a single Republican who had the face to stand up and defend the act...They act more like a pack of rogues who have escaped the penalty of their crimes through some unexpected quibble of law...If the people do not rise up in their might and rebuke this outrage...there will be no use in ever again holding an election. If the voice of the people of the whole United States is to be stifled and set aside by three or four rascals, why go to the trouble of holding elections at all?...The best of Republicans have no regard for oaths, laws or moral obligations...I wish I could get this thing out of my mind, but I greatly fear it is the beginning of the end of all elections by the people." * Mar. 5: "I have delayed writing until the completion of the great fraud - the inauguration of Hayes as President...Occasionally someone would 'hurrah for Hayes' as the carriage containing Grant, Hayes and Sen. Morrill passed along, when off would go the hat of his fraudulency and a profound bow in response...The only outburst from the people along the street was occasioned by a dog that got into the street...It is the first time in the history of the country that the inauguration of a President was a purely partisan affair, and it was the first time that the people looked on with indignation...There is now a very bitter feeling against Tilden. Had he asserted his right he would have been inaugurated, but after having been elected he sat down tamely and allowed the conspirators to set him aside...(I) cannot go as far as to renounce all connection with the old Democratic party. That our leaders have shown imbecility in this instance is not a sufficient reason for abandoning the party...It is confidently asserted that (Hayes) will appoint two of his cabinet from among the leading Confederate generals...while the rascals who made him President are to be ignored...." One letter with some smudges on p. 4 from folding while ink still damp; another letter with light soiling along outer folds; one with split at a fold; envelope soiled, tattered, triangular tear, stamp sound. Else darkly penned in an eminently neat hand, and fine to very fine. Though having 250,000 votes more than Hayes, Tilden was fearful that a second civil war might erupt, had he not conceded. Retiring to his 99-room house in Yonkers believed by the same architect as the considerably smaller Cohasco Building, he bequeathed his fortune to the New York Public Library. (6 pcs.)
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