Nov 08, 2018 - Sale 2492

Sale 2492 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 715
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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
WHISKEY REBELLION CAUSED BY "DEMOCRATIC CLUBS" ARTEMAS WARD. Autograph Letter Signed, "(Gen'l) Artemas Ward," to "Dear Dana," expressing pleasure that he arrived safely in Charleston, praising his abilities, advising him to be virtuous and seek the blessing of God, reporting that his New England friends are well, planning to investigate the possibility of obtaining franking privileges, and, in a postscript, reporting the general belief that "Democratic Clubs" were a cause of the Whiskey Rebellion. 2 pages, 4to, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; faint scattered foxing, folds. Philadelphia 15 December 1794
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". . . Every moment we receive favors for which we ought to be thankful and we are continually in want of blessing which we ought to seek to God for, these are duties not to be neglected.

". . . I sincerely wish you the Divine protection and blessing in all your lawful undertakings in this life & when you have finished your course here on Earth, I ardently pray you may through the merits of Jesus Christ be received to Zion above where ye weary are at reast & all tears shall be wiped away. . . ."

The postscript: "I hope you will never forsake the northern Polaticks & adopt the present Southern ones. Harmony is much more prevalent in Congress than last sessions. The Democratic clubs are pretegerally [sic] reprobated[.] [I]t is the general received opinion they were one cause of the late insurrection in the four Western Counties of Pennsylvania."

From the Collection of William Wheeler III.