Auction Date:2010 Jul 14 @ 22:00 (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
Signed book: Loco Foco Congressional Speeches 1840. Washington: Globe Office, 1840. Hardcover, 6 x 9.25, over 1100 pages. Signed vertically on the inside front cover, “Millard Fillmore, Buffalo,” and signed inside three more times on three of the speeches: “M. Fillmore,” in pencil on the first page of “Abolition!! /Infatuation of Federal Whig Leaders of the South”; “M. Fillmore” in ink on the first page of “Speech of Mr. Benton, of Missouri”; and on the first page of “Message from the President of the United States, to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Twenty-Sixth Congress”—President Martin Van Buren’s State of the Union address—signed “M. Fillmore” in pencil and dated December 2, 1839. In very good condition, with foxing to inside paste downs, toning and foxing to opening pages as well as inside pages, scattered soiling, wear to covers, and soiling, some light flaking, and crazing to spine.
A radical wing of the Democratic Party, organized in New York City in 1835, the Locfocos were comprised of workingmen and reformers opposed to state banks, monopolies, paper money, tariffs, and generally any financial policies that seemed conducive to special privilege. Their strength was at its peak in 1840, the year this volume was published, and the year that Congress passed the Independent Treasury Act which President Martin Van Buren signed into law. It was also the year in which members of the Whig Party began referring to all Democrats as “Locofocos.” When it came time for Fillmore, a Whig, to have his personal collection of Congressional Speeches 1840 bound into this volume, including lengthy speeches for the Independent Treasury Bill, he had “LOCO FOCO” added to the title as part of his dislike for the Democrats.
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