Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 224

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(NEBRASKA.) Taylor, William H. Broadside titled "To the Public." Letterpress broadside, 20 x 13 inches; moderate foxing and wear, slight loss at intersection of folds; long contemporary pencil note in lower margin. Nebraska City, NE, 11 October 1859

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This early Nebraska imprint is an open letter which begins " To the Public. Fellow Citizens: The last issue of the Omaha Nebraskian makes a personal attack upon me and tries to rob me, upon the eve of an election, of my character, by putting in circulation the most unmitigated lies that ever emanated from the pen of a human being." Taylor was a Republican lawyer who had issued a handbill against local Democratic candidate Experience Estabrook, which drew a fierce attack from Democratic paper. Taylor, who was apparently new in town, asserts that he had a substantial law practice in Palmyra, MO, and denies that he came to Nebraska as a fugitive. Nebraska Imprints 45; none in OCLC and none known at auction.
The manuscript note on the bottom reads "Dear Rob: This is the first shot. Publish the letters that Cap Moore has and ask for evidence that Esterbrook called him 'a mean, unmitigated contemptible d__d liar' in the streets of Nebraska City on the evening of Saturday Sept 24 1857. You can have the evidence. Blackman."