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Title: New York Quaker denounces Stephen’s Douglas’ “infamous” compromise allowing slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska Territories – letter to a Republican Party founder Author: Searing, John Place: Publisher: Date: 1854 Description: Autograph Letter Signed. Poplar Ridge, New York, “2 mo.” (Feb.) 20, 1854. 2pp.+stamped address leaf. To Congressman E. B. Morgan, Washington, D.C. Searing, a friend of Abolitionist Gerritt Smith, was sending Morgan - soon to be one of the first legislators elected to the House of Representatives from the new Republican Party – a petition opposing the Stephen Douglas’ “infamous” bill to organize the Nebraska and Kansas Territories without outlawing slavery. Searing had found “so much feeling” in his town against the Bill, that he could have found more signers “to an almost unlimited extent,” but he hurried to send it before the Bill came to a vote (It passed the Senate a few weeks later). He felt “at a loss for language to convey my abhorrence of so vile a scheme… I never knew such united indignation against anything as pervading the community here…It appears to be irrespective of sects or parties. I think those northern members who may see fit to vote for it, ought to have… their names put on parchment and posted through the length and breadth of the land.” He hoped his friend, New York Governor Seward (later Lincoln’s wartime Secretary of State) would not be “struck dumb” by the “amount of perfidy threatened” by the bill’s supporters, but would “in the right time protest against it with that logical clearness that so characterizes his speeches…” Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 276186