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U. S. Grant

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U. S. Grant

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Auction Date:2012 Mar 14 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : 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
ALS, one page, lightly-lined both sides, 4.5 x 7, no date. Letter to John P. Jones. In full: “I write to you in answer to the letter signed by the Vice President, Senator Conkling, & yourself, and only just rec’d. I regret exceedingly I did not get it…in time possibly to have had some effect. Please read my letter to you, also the one to Garfield and the signers of the letter of the 30th, and use your combined judgement as to whether the latter should be delivered or not.

I am likely to remain here another month. The work I am engaged upon is one which I believe to result in great benefits to my own country, and of course to this. No personal consideration would tempt me to engage in what I am now doing, but I believe sincerely that by building these people up we will establish a market for our products which will stave off, for years at least, a panic which is otherwise inevitable from the rapidity with which we are going on.” In fine condition, with some scattered light toning and soiling and a central horizontal fold.

Jones was a longtime Republican senator from Nevada who criticized President James A. Garfield for various appointments the chief executive made after winning the 1880 presidential election, including his selection of cabinet members. When he tapped William Henry Robertson as collector at the port of New York on March 23, it set off a firestorm among the New York delegation who openly resisted the nod. Citing that the party had not been notified about the nomination, Senators Jones and Conkling fired off the March 30 letter enlisting the help of prominent politicians, including Grant, to help quash the appointment. When the general received the letter, he wrote to Garfield on April 24, 1881 using Jones as the courier, as mentioned above. In response to the former president, Garfield purportedly defended his appointments and maintained that Grant had been ‘deceived by gross exaggerations and deliberate misrepresentations as to the motives and purposes of the President,’ making it clear that he would not allow officials to interfere with the presidential right of nomination. On May 5,the president withdrew all the favorable nominations supported by New York Senator Conkling and kept Robertson's appointment in the mix. The senator, realizing his cause was lost, resigned May 18, 1881. Two days later, the senate confirmed Robertson's nomination. An important and historically significant correspondence from a former president to a successor.
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