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1844 "Humanity Party" Ticket Minutes Listing Frederick Douglass as an Elector for President. ...
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1844 "Humanity Party" Ticket Minutes Listing Frederick Douglass as an Elector for President. Four pages of a bifolium, 8" x 12.75", Quincy, Massachusetts; November 9, 1844. A manuscript ballot belonging to Stephen F. Fowler (1808-1845) from the Massachusetts election of 1844. It includes his votes for the state and municipal elections. The "Gentlemen composing this Ticket are all...of good morals, good talents - are Total Abstinence Men and decided and uncompromising Anti-Slavery Men. Total Abstinence and Anti-Slavery, I make my Political Motto. By total Abstinence, I mean the abstaining entirely from the use of all intoxicating drinks as a beverage." It lists the noted abolitionist and president of the Anti-Slavery Society, William Lloyd Garrison, as Governor of Massachusetts. Charles Lenox Redmond, a free black man and fellow member of the Anti-Slavery Society, is listed as lieutenant governor. Below the results of the Municipal election of March 4, 1844, Fowler concludes, "I am sorry that Truth compels me to record the total defeat of this my Temperance Ticket in the town of Quincy." On page two, he lists his presidential vote, which he titles "Humanity's Ticket," writing in Robert Owen of New York as President and Wendell Phillips of Massachusetts as Vice President, both staunch abolitionists. "Frederick Douglass of Lynn" is listed as elector number two. The election being in 1844, it makes this one of the earliest known Frederick Douglass items, preceding the first edition of his Narrative by one year. Page three includes a brief sardonic impromptu dedicated to Enoch Danforth, who has flipped and decided to vote for Henry Clay. It reads, in part: "My name is Enoch Danforth now, / In politics I am a Whig; / Unto the death, I've made a vow, / This once, to dance a slaver's jig. / Though slavery is a fiendish curse, / A libel on our Natal Day. / I'll hug the monster like my purse, / And vote for Henry Clay."Condition: Lightly rubbed, soiled, and toned.
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2022 October 19 Historic African Americana Signature® Auction #6248 (go to Auction Home page)
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