Auction Date:2012 Mar 14 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Letter, written and signed “Jefferson Davis,” by his wife Varina on his behalf, two pages, 7.75 x 12.25, January 8, 1883. In part: “Communities are, or should be, formed to protect each individual, and by punishing wrong to preserve right. The members by entering the community do not alienate their natural rights, but combine for the greater security of them. The sovereignty of the community is the aggregate of the individual sovereignty and therefore ‘Governments rest on the consent of the governed.’
The state i.e. the people, require agents as well for efficiency as for convenience, and functions are delegated, but sovereignty, indivisible and indefeasible, remains in the People. Some form of Government is necessary to social existence, and the common interest of all is a guarantee to each, that the Government will be the…which the judgment of the whole can devise; but it is usual…us to guard against usurpation by a bill of rights, a barrier over which official…cannot pass even if corruptly using the shield of state sovereignty. The many pages both preceding and following the one cited by your correspondent, I endeavored, on the part of authority and by agreement to report three mischievous errors of recent birth and rapid growth. First that our governments are sovereign. Second, that the Constitution of the U.S. is the creation of the people en masse, instead of a compact between the states i.e. the people of each independent community. Third that the will of the majority is the law of the land, meaning thereby of the U.S. In attacking each and all of these positions, state sovereignty was the heavy battalion relied on, and its leaders were the founders of our Constitutional vision.”
In good to very good condition, with intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, a couple old repairs to folds on reverse, scattered soiling, dampstaining, toning, and a stamp showing through on reverse of pages, trimmed bottom edge of second page, a small repair to paper loss along edge of second page affecting just a couple letters, and a few stray ink marks. The complete text of the letter is available online at rrauction.com.
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