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Henry Clay - the Moving Force Behind the Compromise of 1850 - Wants the Fugitive Slave Act to Be Maintained and Upheld by Henry Clay

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Title: Henry Clay - the Moving Force Behind the Compromise of 1850 - Wants the Fugitive Slave Act to Be Maintained and Upheld
Author: Henry Clay
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 22/11/1850. On the South’s fear of emancipation and the need to have the South’s cooperation in revising legislation: “That feeling was wearing away, but it is aroused again by what has recently passed and is passing in regard to Slavery. It is only in a period of calm, when the passions are stilted, that an appeal can be favorably made to the South. Without its co-operation to some extent, it would be inexpedient to rely altogether on Northern support.” You “can form no full conception of the violence of the passions boiling over in Congress” as a result of the Compromise Clay will now turn his attention to the colonization idea - sending slaves back to AfricaThe Compromise of 1850 was a series of measures proposed by the “great compromiser,” Sen. Henry Clay of Kentucky, and passed by the Congress in an effort to settle several outstanding slavery issues and to avert the threat of dissolution of the Union. The crisis arose from the request of the territory of California (December 3, 1849) to be admitted to the Union with a constitution prohibiting slavery. The problem was complicated by the unresolved question of slavery’s extension into other areas ceded by Mexico the preceding year.Clay’s purpose was to maintain a balance between free and slave states and to satisfy both proslavery and antislavery forces. The plan adopted by Congress had several parts: California was admitted as a free state, upsetting the equilibrium that had long prevailed in the Senate; the boundary of Texas was fixed along its current lines; Texas, in return for giving up land it claimed in the Southwest, had $10 million of its onerous debt assumed by the federal government; areas ceded by Texas became the recognized territories of New Mexico and Utah, and in neither case was slavery mentioned, ostensibly leaving these territories to decide the slavery question on their own; the slave trade, but not slavery itself, was abolished in the District of Columbia; and finally, Congress passed a new and stronger Fugitive Slave Act, taking the matter of returning runaway slaves out of the control of states and making it a federal responsibility. This proved to be a momentous move.The compromise measures were enacted in September 1850. President Fillmore called it “a final settlement,” and the South certainly had nothing to complain about. It had secured the type of fugitive slave law it had long demanded, and although California came in as a free state, it elected proslavery representatives. Moreover, New Mexico and Utah enacted slave codes, technically opening the territories to slavery.The compromise, however, contained the seeds of discord. The new Fugitive Slave Act required citizens to assist in the recovery of fugitive slaves, which triggered such a strong negative - even furious - reaction throughout the North that many moderate antislavery elements became determined opponents of any further extension of slavery into the territories. Thus, while the Compromise of 1850 served as a very temporary expedient, it also proved the failure of compromise as a permanent political solution when vital sectional interests were at stake.Autograph letter signed, one page both sides, Ashland, November 22, 1850, to Thomas R. Hazard, a social reformer in Newport, Rhode Island. In it, Clay notes that there were strong forces in favor of the Fugitive Slave Act who would oppose any modification or repeal, and Hazard’s proposal for paying slaveowners for escaped slaves would not work. Clay wanted the act maintained as it was.“I received your favor of the 14th instant which I have perused with much attention and pleasure. It is full of sentiments of humanity, benevolence and patriotism worthy of your heart. I am afraid with you that the Fugitive Slave bill is every where taking strong ground against its repeal or eventual modification. I fear that your remedy of paying a portion of the value of un-reclaimed Slaves would, if practicable to be adopted, would be liable to serious objections, and lead in operation to fraudulent results. I hope that the law can be maintained, unless it can be shown to have unconstitutional defects, which I do not believe.“You overrate, my dear Sir, my ability to allay the agitation; but whatever I have shall be freely devoted to the object, with the most perfect disinterestedness personally. I had intended to direct my exertions, at the coming session, to the great interests of Colonization, and especially to the object of establishing a line of Steamers on an economical plan; but I now apprehend that the agitation and excitement arising out of the Fugitive Law will render the moment inauspicious for any successful effort. The ultra South has seen, in the scheme of Colonization, through the distant vista, a project of general emancipation. That feeling was wearing away, but it is aroused again by what has recently passed and is passing in regard to Slavery. It is only in a period of calm, when the passions are stilted, that an appeal can be favorably made to the South. Without its co-operation to some extent, it would be inexpedient to rely altogether on Northern support. You, in your great delightful retreat at Vaucluse, can form no full conception of the violence of the passions boiling over in Congress.“I shall present your petition with great satisfaction, should I receive it during the next session. I thank you for the seeds which you sent me, and which I safely received. Do me the favor to present my respectful compliments to Mrs. Hazard.” Includes the original mailing envelope addressed in Clay's hand, and franked in the upper right, ""Free, H. Clay.""The compromise helped preserve the Union for a decade, but it played a role in heightening tensions and bringing on the Civil War. This historic letter offers exceptional insight into Clay's thoughts on the most significant political matter of his time, and one in which he played such a central role.

INFINITE JEST by Wallace, David Foster

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Title: INFINITE JEST
Author: Wallace, David Foster
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Near fine.
Description: Boston: Little, Brown And Company, 1996. First edition. Near fine.. Signed advance "Special Galleys" (stated) of Wallace's generation-defining magnum opus about a movie so funny it addicts its watchers. Advance promotional issue (in an unstated edition, reportedly 1000 copies) of one of the most beloved and acclaimed cult novels of the last thirty years. Equal parts Delillo and Pynchon, a modern classic - especially scarce with the publisher's response card. 9.25'' x 6.25''. Original color pictorial wrappers. Signed by Wallace (with a small drawing of a smiley face) to the front endpaper, as issued. 1080 pages. Includes scarce publisher "INFINITE JEST Response Card." Shallow bump to one corner, some faint staining to lower edge of text-block, small spot of soil/wear to front panel. Else bright, sound, and sharp overall.

Kunstenaarsboeken uit het [Artists’ Books from the] Other Books & So Archive Amsterdam (27 March-4 April 1981) by CARRIÓN, Ulises, curator

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Title: Kunstenaarsboeken uit het [Artists’ Books from the] Other Books & So Archive Amsterdam (27 March-4 April 1981)
Author: CARRIÓN, Ulises, curator
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Seven black & white illus. [11] pp. Small 4to (210 x 150 mm.), pictorial printed wrappers, staple-bound. Schiedam, Netherlands: Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 1981. An uncommon exhibition catalogue published by the Stedelijk Museum in Schiedam; the show was curated by Ulises Carrión (1941-89), and the books displayed came from his personal archive, the Other Books and So Archive. By 1978, Carrión had closed his intrepid Amsterdam bookstore, Other Books and So, and converted it into an archive of artists’ books. This is one of a number of exhibitions on artists’ books that the artist organized; others took place in Iceland, Poland, Denmark, and several locations across the Netherlands. This catalogue features an illuminating interview with Carrión (in Dutch and English), in which he spells out his criteria for what qualifies as a “bookwork,” “an object book,” and a “book object.” Describing the conception and production of his own bookworks, he says: “When realizing my works I’m strongly influenced by my literary background, I think. I’m constantly trying to get rid of it. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes not. I try to reduce the book as much as possible to its essence – a sequence of signs. To me, sequence implies time, it means you cannot perceive a book in one time or moment. The second element is visual by nature – that which you see when you open the book. I try as much as possible to use signs other than literary, even other than verbal. That’s why I use photography or rubber stamps. I’m very conscious of the paper. I strive towards an evident unfolding of the book. I don’t mean that the message should be evident, but rather the book’s structure, how the book fits together. You are free to interpret it as you wish, but there must be some sort of recognizable structure. I’m not talking of just a pile of loose sheets.” Carrión selected artists’ books by Juan Agius, Anna Banana, Guglielmo Cavellini, Robin Crozier, Claudio Goulart, Kristjan Gudmundsson, Davi Det Hompson, Jiri Kolar, David Mayor, Bruno Munari, Maurizio Nannucci, Dieter Roth, Ed Ruscha, Takako Saito, Jiri Valoch, Lawrence Weiner, etc., etc. A full listing of the works is found at the very end. In near fine condition. Printed in an edition of 350 copies. ❧ Guy Schraenen, ed., Dear reader. Don’t read. (2016) pp. 174 & 214 (pictured).

The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds & Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel (in 2 vols.) by Robinson, W. Heath (illustrator); Francois Rabelais

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Title: The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds & Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel (in 2 vols.)
Author: Robinson, W. Heath (illustrator); Francois Rabelais
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
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Description: London: Grant Richards, 1904. First edition. Very Good. Two quarto volumes (11 3/16 x 8 3/4 inches; 285 x 223 mm.). xlii, [1, blank], [1, illustration], 377, [1, blank]; xliv, 350, [2, blank] pp. Photogravure frontispiece in each volume, with tissue guard. Volume I with fifty-five full-page illustrations, fifty-nine grotesque heads, and twenty-six other small drawings or vignettes, all in line. Volume II with forty-three full-page illustrations, thirty-five grotesque heads, and thirty-four other small drawings or vignettes, all in line. Publisher's white buckram pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, pictorial end-papers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Corners slightly bumped, some light foxing to preliminary leaves and blank margins, otherwise a very good copy. A favorite author of the French Renaissance, François Rabelais's wild stories of adventuring giants Gargantua and Pantagruel still entertains today. Consisting of five novels, the humorous and satirical narratives allowed for the humanist Rabelais to explore and critique everything from superstition to marriage. This edition of Rabelais was "[Robinson's] largest and most ambitious project to date....The Works of Rabelais which was published in two large volumes containing a hundred full page illustrations and well over a hundred smaller drawings and vignettes... It is the full page drawings that are the most original, with visions of hell that are truly horrific, and a raw power and earthiness in the drawings that is exactly in tune with Rabelais' narrative style. These drawings must have influenced illustrators who followed and many of them bring to mind the work of Mervyn Peake forty years later" (Beare). "The last serious piece of illustration that [Robinson] undertook in this first phase of his book illustrating career" (Lewis). Beare 35A; Lewis, p. 215. Very Good.

[Memoranda Containing Instructions for Final Reports on the Minidoka Internment Camp Following Its Closure] by [Japanese American Internment]: [War Relocation Authority]: [Idaho]: Rawlings, W.E.

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Title: [Memoranda Containing Instructions for Final Reports on the Minidoka Internment Camp Following Its Closure]
Author: [Japanese American Internment]: [War Relocation Authority]: [Idaho]: Rawlings, W.E.
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description: Hunt, ID: November 1, 1945. 4pp., mimeographed text on tall folio sheets, stapled at top left. Old folds, light wear, two holes punched in top margin. Very good. An informative document written by W.E. Rawlings, the Project Director at the Minidoka Internment Camp in Idaho, providing guidelines, instructions, pointers, and so forth to staff members preparing final statistical, functional, and personal narrative reports. The camp closed a few days before this memo was written, and final reports were prepared to provide "outside groups, both public and private" about "the unique work of the WRA." Rawlings' advice here includes suggestions to refer back to monthly reports, consult the "evacuee newspaper 'The Minidoka Irrigator,'" confer with longtime employees at the camp, and much more. He also suggests methods for addressing questions such as "If You Aren't Sure Washington Will Understand About Mistakes," "If You Are Unsure How Far to Go on Opinion in Personal Narratives," "If You Wonder How 'Personal' Your Personal Narrative Should Be," and so forth. Rawlings advises staff that reports need not be illustrated with photographs, or they should be kept to a minimum, given that the Denver Photo Unit was overworked at the present moment. In the end, Rawlings stipulates that reports should be "clear, reasonably complete, and factually correct." A fairly sterile document considering the nature of the experiences on which the staff was reporting.

Biographie Medicale par Ordre Chronologique d'apres Daniel Leclerc, Eloy, etc. Mise dans un nouvel ordre, revue et completee. by BAYLE, Antoine Laurent Jesse (1799-1858) & August Jean THILLAYE.

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Title: Biographie Medicale par Ordre Chronologique d'apres Daniel Leclerc, Eloy, etc. Mise dans un nouvel ordre, revue et completee.
Author: BAYLE, Antoine Laurent Jesse (1799-1858) & August Jean THILLAYE.
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description: Amsterdam:: B. M. Israel, 1967., 1967. Two volumes. Reprint of the 1855 Paris edition. 8vo. [4], 560; [4], 950 pp. Red cloth, black and gilt-stamped spine titles. Fine. BM Readex (1855 ed.) Vol. 2, p. 630; Garrison & Morton 6712.

A Life in Pictures: The Douglas Kirkland Monograph by KIRKLAND, Douglas; KIRKLAND. Francoise

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Title: A Life in Pictures: The Douglas Kirkland Monograph
Author: KIRKLAND, Douglas; KIRKLAND. Francoise
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Description: New York: Glitterati, 2013. First. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Douglas Kirkland. Foreword by Baz Luhrman and Catherine Martin. Profusely photographed in color and b/w. 384 pages. Thick 4to, glossy pictorial boards, edge worn pictorial d.w. New York: Glitterati, (2013). First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Inscribed by Douglas and Francoise on the title page.

우리 가 정말 알아야 할 우리 전통 예인 백 사람 = Uri ka chŏngmal araya hal uri chŏnt'ong yein paek saram = [Baeksaram, our traditional art that we really need to know] by Yi, Kyu-wŏn, & Pŏm-t'ae Chŏng

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Title: 우리 가 정말 알아야 할 우리 전통 예인 백 사람 = Uri ka chŏngmal araya hal uri chŏnt'ong yein paek saram = [Baeksaram, our traditional art that we really need to know]
Author: Yi, Kyu-wŏn, & Pŏm-t'ae Chŏng
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Description: Sŏul Tʻŭkpyŏlsi: Hyonamsa, 1995. 8vo, pp. 655, [1]; many color illustrations showing Korean performers in theatre, puppetry, dance, and music, often in traditional costumes; fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.

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