Francis Spinner, 1856 Holographic Autographed Historic Letter With Spinner Calling Himself a Black Republican. Mohawk, NY, September 8, 1856, One page letter in Spinner's hand and also signed by him. Congressman Spinner discusses the fact that: “ I should commit to it in writing – I therefore say to you and to all such as infer from my votes in congress that I am a Republican , that the inference is true and hereby not only avow myself one,...
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Francis Spinner, 1858 Holographic Autographed Historic Letter Discussing the 1858 Lecompton Constitution. Mohawk, NY, October 9th 1858, 2 page letter in Spinners hand, discusses the Lecompton Constitution, (1857), the document was framed in Lecompton, Kansas by Southern pro-slavery advocates of Kansas statehood. It contained clauses which protected slaveholding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks. This added to the frictions between...
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