TAPPAN LEWIS Autograph Letter Signed

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LEWIS TAPPAN TO SENATOR WILSON ON THE ANTI-SLAVERY BILL TAPPAN, LEWIS. Autograph Letter Signed to Massachusetts State Senator Henry Wilson, one page 4to, written on a sheet of stationery with the famous Patrick Reason engraved letterhead of a kneeling slave; a few creases where folded, tiny hole at joining of creases in center right; paper lightly and evenly toned. Professionally conserved with a few archival repairs to the verso. New York, 28 April 1862

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Lewis Tappan (1788-1873), noted anti-slavery advocate and silk merchant, was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, which commissioned the engraving by Patrick Reason that was first used in the Fountain (1836). Tappan congratulates Senator Wilson for his speech, "I have today read your speech . . . for the second time, and must drop you a line to say that it deserves to be written in letters of gold and be put into the hands of every citizen of the United States. To you especially is the country indebted for the passage of this bill. May the country ever be grateful, and may the blessings of the God of the Oppressed rest upon you!"