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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—
DOUGLASS,FREDERICK.) BREWSTER,
BENJAMIN H.
Autograph Letter
Signed to Ulysses S. Grant, congratu-
lating him on the appointment of
Frederick Douglass as Assistant Sec-
retary to the Santo Domingo Com-
mission.
Single 4to leaf of Brewster’s let-
terhead, folded to form four pages,
written on three sides.
Philadelphia, 13 December 1871
[1,500/2,500]
An excellent congratulatory letter in which
Brewster, the 37th Attorney General, com-
mends Grant’s decision to appoint Frederick
Douglass: “Mr. President, Really I cannot
refrain from congratulating you on the appoint-
ment & confirmation of Mr. Douglass. The
selection and appointment of Mr. Rogers will
appease a great deal of unpleasant feelings in . . .
Pennsylvania. They were both judicious and
presidential acts . . . Pennsylvania properly
belong to you & these judicious acts will keep
it. It might have been lost by errors. A violent
effort will be made to divide it . . . You alone
can carry the state. The politicians can neither
give it to you nor take it away.”