May 04, 2017 - Sale 2446

Sale 2446 - Lot 199

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
"THE COUNTRY WILL FIND PEACE IN THE RECONCILIATION OF RACES" (SUPREME COURT.) CHASE, SALMON P. Autograph Letter Signed, "STChase," as Chief Justice, to jurist and Chase biographer Robert B. Warden, expecting Grant to be elected president [written on Election Day], and anticipating a peaceful reception of the Republican Party's reconstruction program. 2 pages, 12mo, written on recto and verso of a single sheet; inlaid, ink quotation marks inserted before paragraphs in unknown hand, folds. (MRS) Washington, 3 November 1868
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"Some months have passed since I received your letter . . . . Many events have taken place since; and the greatest in which the test culminates is taking place today.
"It is not my purpose to comment on them; but simply to thank you . . . . Your anticipations have not been realized; and my faith in the Good Providence which has thus far presided so plainly in our country's destiny is such that I cannot doubt . . . .
"At the close of today's voting I doubt not that General Grant will be President elect. It is my earnest prayer & confident expectation that the country will find peace in the reconciliation of races and in the . . . protection of the equal rights of all men. . . ."