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Discontent with Gilded Age Presidential Politics and the Influence of the negro vote by WILLIAM BEACH LAWRENCE

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Title: Discontent with Gilded Age Presidential Politics and the Influence of the negro vote
Author: WILLIAM BEACH LAWRENCE
Seller: Seth Kaller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Newport [R.I.], 1872. No binding. Fine. Autograph Letter Signed, to Henry Anthony. Newport [R.I.], November 25, 1872. 4 pp. A detailed, despairing letter on campaign politics after the reelection of Ulysses S. Grant. Lawrence observes the humiliating defeat of Democrats and ""Liberal Republicans"" - who united behind Horace Greeley because of corruption in the Grant administration - in the Election of 1872. Lawrence laments the elevation of personality over merit and virtue in elections, an observation which resonates today. He also expresses concern about how newly enfranchised African Americans tended to vote. ""The negroes are naturally disposed to support those who are in power & whom they invest with superior dignity, on account of the possession of power. ...the extraordinary denouement of the Cincinnati Convention has placed in bold relief the mode most unsatisfactory to an intelligent people, by which party conventions are constituted & which are readily made, the instruments of the vilest partisan combinations, carried on by men without character & without principle."" Complete Transcript Ochre Point, Newport 25 Nov. 1872Dear Governor Anthony Your kindness in supplying me in former years with the Congressional Globe induces me to solicit the favor of the sequel to my set. I have to the end of the 41st. Congress 2d. Session 1869-70. I have not the 1s. or 2d. Session of the 42d. Congress.- nor the annual reports, accompanying the last message. I have not forgotten my promise to write a paper on the changes to be effected in the character of the Executive office, for which the existing arrangement in Subjects furnishes valuable suggestions, but the task which I somewhat hastily [2] assured, to enter on the, (to rue,) novel task of a lecturer, has occupied all the time that I could give to my library, while the events of the late elections and the matters, which preceeded it, induce me to think that the question of a constitutional amedmt does not stand precisely as it did some months since. The utter dissolution of the Democratic party, by the insane nomination of Greeley, gives to General Grant the power of retaining his position, by repeated election, as long as he may desire it. Not only is all outside opposition removed, but the plan of those, who attempted, in the party itself, to secede from the support of administration has been signally defeated, that the same cause is not likely to be repeated by any of those who remained steadfast to their chief. If the principle of the civil service bill is carried out, as was professed, the same panacea [3]which attaches to subordinate places may readily be applied to the highest, especially, when it is considered that it is a remedy for those periodical agitations, which Presidential elections formerly occasioned. There is another element not hereafter to be overlooked & that is the negro vote - the negroes are naturally disposed to support those who are in power & whom they invest with superior dignity, on account of the possession of power. Moreover, the extraordinary denouement of the Cincinnati Convention has placed in bold relief the mode most unsatisfactory to an intelligent people, by which party conventions are constituted & which are readily made, the instruments of the vilest partisan combinations, carried on by men without character & without principle. I know not that Belmont's cause, in deferring the Democratic Convention, till after the nondescript assemblage at Cincinnati, is to be ascribed to any cause other [4] incompetency to deal with such matters, but if his object had been, in furtherance of the interests of Rothschild's financial scheme, to affect the reelection of General Grant, he could not have taken a more effectual course than he adopted, for the purpose. In giving it as my opinion, in these rambling remarks, that the election of General Grant for a third & fourth term is as certain as any event, which has not actually occurred, I wish to be understood n... (See website for full description)

Abstract of a Report of Professor Clayton on a Set of Twenty Mines in the Eureka District, Nevada [caption title] by [Nevada]: [Mining]: Clayton, Joshua E.

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Title: Abstract of a Report of Professor Clayton on a Set of Twenty Mines in the Eureka District, Nevada [caption title]
Author: [Nevada]: [Mining]: Clayton, Joshua E.
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
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Description: Eureka, Nv: July 3, 1871. Very good.. [4]pp., on a single large folio sheet. Old horizontal folds, minor toning. A large-format mining report on the Eureka District of Nevada by noted mining and mechanical engineer Joshua E. Clayton. Joshua Elliott Clayton (1820-1889) was regarded as one of the nation's foremost mining engineers in the latter half of the 19th century. Self taught, Clayton worked in the mining fields of California, Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Nevada for a variety of companies for over fifty years. He was also innovative, inventing mining and milling machinery over his long career that he would market to the companies for which he was a consultant. Clayton was renowned in the west for his integrity and accuracy, once claiming in 1880 that Butte would eventually yield 40,000 tons of copper per year; nine years later, Butte was producing over 50,000 tons of copper annually. The idea was laughed at, until the mine produced. A detailed biography of Clayton by Clark C. Spence, titled, "Joshua E. Clayton: Pioneer Western Mining Engineer" was published in the Autumn 1980 issue of Arizona and the West. Beginning in 1867, Clayton consulted for a number of British and American firms in the mining fields of Nevada. The present report on "twenty mines in the Eureka District" in Lander County, Nevada was produced for an unspecified investment group, likely a British firm, many of whom Clayton was consulting at this time. In the report, Clayton details the overall state of the geology of the area, the ore deposits, lodes, veins, and other phenomena. He also goes into great detail on two area mines - the "Bullwhacker" Series and the 1,600-foot Dunderberger Mine. Clayton describes these mines in great detail, and characterizes them as can't-miss opportunities for his unnamed investors, writing that "the set of mines selected for the basis of your investment...is the finest combination of claims that can now be made in this wonderfully rich district." The last page of the document is a supplemental report by W.S. Keyes which confirms Clayton's assessment of the Eureka-area mines. Though no item-level records of this report are listed in OCLC, there may be copies in the two collections of Clayton's papers at Yale and the Bancroft. Otherwise, the document is unrecorded.

The New York Weekly News November 19, 1864. Vol. IX No. 1. by [Civil War].

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Title: The New York Weekly News November 19, 1864. Vol. IX No. 1.
Author: [Civil War].
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Description: Newsprint, folio sheets, 8 pp. Last four pages uncut, Creasing, and chips and tears along edges, with some loss in the final column and top margin. A little bit of soiling, staining and foxing; overall between fair and good. This issue has a couple of articles on the war. One relates to General Sheridan's activities in Virginia, another relates to Confederate Finances. A somewhat large chip has resulted in the loss of some words in these articles, but most of the articles are present. Paper maybe shipped at center fold.

Evening in Paradise; More Stories by Berlin, Lucia

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Title: Evening in Paradise; More Stories
Author: Berlin, Lucia
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ISBN: 9780374279486
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Description: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($26.00), bumped at the top edge. Grey paper on the boards with yellow ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A selection of twenty-two of Berlin's stories favorable compared to the work of Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, and Alice Munro.

A Roman Summer" [in] HORIZON: A Review of Literature and Art, Vol. XVI, No. 91 by WILSON, Edmund; Cyril Connolly (ed)

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Title: A Roman Summer" [in] HORIZON: A Review of Literature and Art, Vol. XVI, No. 91
Author: WILSON, Edmund; Cyril Connolly (ed)
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Description: London: Horizon, 1947. First Edition. Light tan printed wraps; 8vo. August 1947 issue with "A Roman Summer 1945" by Wilson; two leaves of black and white plates. About very good.

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