[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, Contemporaries of]. CHASE, SALMON P., Secretary of the Treasury. Autograph leter signed ("S.P. Chase") as Secretary of the Treasury, to William Pitt Fessenden, "Treasury Department" 27 January 1863, 3 pages 4to, separated at central fold, a good letter to the man who succeeded to Chase's office in late 1864, asserting that "my solicitude in respect to our finances is very great," and complaining that "against my most earnest remonstrances, Congress insisted on the conversion clause. It operates as I represented it would....In my first report (1861) I suggested a tax on bank notes as well as other internal taxes....In my second report...I proposed a National Banking system and a tax on circulation....But Congress thought otherwise...." and concluding that Fessendedn has "the brains of a statesman & the heart of a patriot. Never was [there] a greater need of both...." Sang sale 1086 -- SUMNER, CHARLES, Radical Republican Senator Autograph letter signed in full to Henry E. Rees, Boston, 20 December 1856, 2 pages, 4to, regarding abolition: "...You are right in your present sentiments against slavery. Unless this atrocious interest is checked the liberty of white as well as black in our country will become a name only...." -- TANEY, ROGER BROOKE, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, wrote Dred Scott decision. Autograph document signed ("R.B. Taney"), n.p., 1807, 1/2 page, folio, a retained copy of a legal brief in the case of "John Bayly vs. Otto H. Luckett," verso with note to his law clerk, Mr. Ritchie, asking him to "file this & send copy with writ to be set up at the Court House Door by the Sheriff...." -- CLAY, HENRY, Senator, Representative. Letter signed ("H. Clay") as Secretary of State in John Quincy's administration, to William C. Somerville, Department of State, Washington, D.C., 14 April 1825, 3 pages, folio, a detailed letter giving official diplomatic instructions to Somerville, the new Chargé d'Affairs in Sweden, directing him to "cultivate and strengthen the good understanding which so happily exists between the United States and Sweden," stating that "it is the President's wish that you take advantage of all fit occasions...to promote that object," and discussing claims of some Americans for confiscations "during the late European wars," and stipulating all trade matters willl be referred to the State Department, etc., Sang sale 890; Autograph letter signed ("H. Clay") to Alexander Miller, Washington, D. C., 4 April 1840, one page, 4to, integral address leaf with postmark and Clay's free frank, regarding a loan, stating he would be "happy to assist you...but...I am quite sure that from the severe pressure in the money market it would not be practicable at present....There is a want of Capital and a want of confidence...there is a repugnance to lending money to distant borrowers that is unconquerable...." and noting that John Jacob Astor himself declined to make a loan recently...." Sang Sale lot 890. (5)

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[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, Contemporaries of]. CHASE, SALMON P., Secretary of the Treasury. Autograph leter signed ("S.P. Chase") as Secretary of the Treasury, to William Pitt Fessenden, "Treasury Department" 27 January 1863, 3 pages 4to, separated at central fold, a good letter to the man who succeeded to Chase's office in late 1864, asserting that "my solicitude in respect to our finances is very great," and complaining that "against my most earnest remonstrances, Congress insisted on the conversion clause. It operates as I represented it would....In my first report (1861) I suggested a tax on bank notes as well as other internal taxes....In my second report...I proposed a National Banking system and a tax on circulation....But Congress thought otherwise...." and concluding that Fessendedn has "the brains of a statesman & the heart of a patriot. Never was [there] a greater need of both...." Sang sale 1086 -- SUMNER, CHARLES, Radical Republican Senator Autograph letter signed in full to Henry E. Rees, Boston, 20 December 1856, 2 pages, 4to, regarding abolition: "...You are right in your present sentiments against slavery. Unless this atrocious interest is checked the liberty of white as well as black in our country will become a name only...." -- TANEY, ROGER BROOKE, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, wrote Dred Scott decision. Autograph document signed ("R.B. Taney"), n.p., 1807, 1/2 page, folio, a retained copy of a legal brief in the case of "John Bayly vs. Otto H. Luckett," verso with note to his law clerk, Mr. Ritchie, asking him to "file this & send copy with writ to be set up at the Court House Door by the Sheriff...." -- CLAY, HENRY, Senator, Representative. Letter signed ("H. Clay") as Secretary of State in John Quincy's administration, to William C. Somerville, Department of State, Washington, D.C., 14 April 1825, 3 pages, folio, a detailed letter giving official diplomatic instructions to Somerville, the new Chargé d'Affairs in Sweden, directing him to "cultivate and strengthen the good understanding which so happily exists between the United States and Sweden," stating that "it is the President's wish that you take advantage of all fit occasions...to promote that object," and discussing claims of some Americans for confiscations "during the late European wars," and stipulating all trade matters willl be referred to the State Department, etc., Sang sale 890; Autograph letter signed ("H. Clay") to Alexander Miller, Washington, D. C., 4 April 1840, one page, 4to, integral address leaf with postmark and Clay's free frank, regarding a loan, stating he would be "happy to assist you...but...I am quite sure that from the severe pressure in the money market it would not be practicable at present....There is a want of Capital and a want of confidence...there is a repugnance to lending money to distant borrowers that is unconquerable...." and noting that John Jacob Astor himself declined to make a loan recently...." Sang Sale lot 890. (5)