SURELY THERE CAN BE A HUMBLE SEAT AT THE GOVERNMENT TABLE

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"SURELY THERE CAN BE . . . A HUMBLE SEAT AT THE GOVERNMENT TABLE?" (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) HENRY WARD BEECHER. Autograph Letter Signed, to the President's sister Rose E. Cleveland, asking for her help in finding a government job for a needy woman. 2 pages, 8vo, written on a single folded sheet, personal stationery. With the original envelope addressed in his hand. Brooklyn, 2 October 1885

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In full: "I do not wish to ask you to exert any political influence upon your brother--but there is a case quite free of politics, which I desire to communicate to your sympathies and aid. Mrs. Upshur will relate the reasons and grounds of her appeal to government. I think they demand consideration not alone from considerations of humanity, but also of patriotism. Surely there can be under our rich government some humble place where she may rest without feeling she is a pauper.

"Will you comfort her, and so far as you can, will you help her in securing a humble seat at the government table?"