May 12, 2005 - Sale 2043

Sale 2043 - Lot 49

Price Realized: $ 1,725
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
ON THE KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT (CIVIL WAR.) TOOMBS, ROBERT. Autograph Letter Signed, to Daniel Naar [?], on slavery and the Kansas Nebraska Act. 2 pages, folded 8vo sheet; usual folds, the second page partially mounted to a larger sheet. Washington, 21 July 1856
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". . . The great difficulty in Northern minds is not understanding the African race. They will insist of viewing him only as a dark skinned white man. But he is not, he is a negro . . . I have not a doubt but that we have found the true political solution of this question in the principles of the Kansas Nebraska Act . . ."