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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2010 Dec 16 @ 17:00UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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William Henry Harrison historically significant autograph letter signed ''W.H. Harrison,'' in rich, black ink, with over 1,000 words in Harrison's hand. Dated 25 November 1835 from Cincinnati, Harrison writes during a unique election year where the Whigs ran more than one presidential candidate and Harrison lost to Martin Van Buren. Letter, addressed to William Ayres, a lawyer who served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, discusses Harrison's sentiments in declaring himself fully an Anti-Mason. Letter reads in part, ''I received yesterday a letter from Mr. [Thaddeus] Stevens...He declines publishing my letter because, as he says, it will create an insurmountable barrier between the Anti-Masons & myself. His object seems to be to procure from me a declaration that I will, if elected, appoint no adhering Mason to office in anti-Mason states. This appears to me to be new ground taken by the Anti-Masons and which cannot but result in injury to their cause; could any President make the declaration that he would be governed by that principle & decline to act upon the converse proposition in states where the anti-Masons were in a majority? Indeed it would be very questionable whether Pennsyl[vani]a could be called in strict propriety an anti-Masonic state. Our friend [Joseph] Ritner did not obtain a majority of the whole number of of [sic] votes taken at the last election. I am decidedly of opinion that an irreparable blow would be given to the Anti-Masonic cause by the adoption of the course recommended by Mr. Stevens. No person who would avow such principles can possibly be elected to the Presidency. He would not get an Electoral vote in one of the Western States. And I think it extremely probable that the avowal of such sentiments would be the means of concentrating an opposition in the Senate of the United States against the anti Masonic interest sufficiently strong to prevent the passage of an anti-Masonic nomination. Mr. Stevens forgets that the President whom the anti-Masons might elect could do them little or no good if the Senate were opposed to them. I do not mean to express any opinion which should govern the appointments to office in Pennsyl[vani]a. I confine myself exclusively in my remarks to the Govt of the U States...If I understand Mr Stevens aright the only fault he now finds in my course is that of my being unwilling to pledge myself to appoint no adhering Mason to office in an anti-Masonic state. Now even if I were determined to do so I would not pledge myself to do it, for I set out with a determination to make no pledges. If the Anti Masons rely upon my openly avowed opinions against Masonry one would suppose that they ought to be satisfied with the certainty of their having a full proportion of my confidences...Can it be possible that the anti-Masons will nominate a candidate who will not get a single electoral vote in any of the Western states or South of the Potomac? I refer to Mr [John Quincy] Adams not to Mr [Daniel] Webster. Mr. Stevens' course here is attributed to his Federalism & that he had determined to support Mr. Webster under any circumstances or any other person but any old Jeffersonian Democrat like myself. I however think that he is really sincere in saying that he would have preferred me if I could have come up to his standards of anti-Masonry. But will Mr. Webster or any of the other persons who have been thought of for the Presidency go further than I go? Perhaps Mr. Adams might, but what earthly chance could he stand to succeed.The difficulty of forming a single rule for a President is further increased from the circumstance of the immense differences in the size of the States & their perfect quality as to rights and from that too of the mode of his election (whether by the electors or by the representatives of the States) clearly pointing him out as the peculiar guardian of the interest of the weaker members of the great political family. But example is better than precept - & practice than theory. I refer to my conduct during the 13 years of my government of Indiana & the North Western Territory as furnishing some grounds by which to ascertain what it might be in the discharge of a somewhat analogous trust.'' A powerful letter by Harrison painting an apt picture of the political climate at the time. Letter, measuring 7.5'' x 12'', runs 3.5pp., front and verso. Light soiling at the edges of each sheet, else near fine.
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