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Lot Number: 47
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1837 Henry A Muhlenberg as US Congressman Autograph Letter Signed with Superb Political Content Regarding Andrew Jackson, the Financial “Panic of 1837” and for a Proposed Ceremonial Toast to President Martin Van Buren |
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HENRY A. MUHLENBERG (1782-1844). American political leader and diplomat, a member of the Muhlenberg family political dynasty; Served in the U.S. Congress as a Jacksonian Democrat from Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1838; U.S. Minister to the Austrian Empire, 1838-1840, elected a Member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1814; died in Reading, PA. at age 62. June 30, 1837-Dated, Handwritten Autograph Letter Signed, "Hen. A. Muhlenberg" at Reading, PA, declining an invitation from the "Democratic Citizens of the First & Second Congressional Districts of Pennsylvania" to dine with them on July 4th (1837), Choice Very Fine. This Letter is 2 pages, measuring 8" x 10", being very well-written with superb period Political Content, referring to the measures of "your late excellent President (Andrew Jackson), and with extensive commentary on the causes of the Financial Panic of 1837 and proposed remedies to the Panic, and concluding with a ceremonial toast to the recently Inaugurated President Martin Van Buren, to be read for him at the July 4th (1837) dinner. This important content Letter reads, in full:"Reading June 20, 1837 --- Gentlemen, --- I have been favored with your polite & kind invitation t dine with the Democratic Citizens of the First & Second Congressional Districts of Pennsylvania on the approaching anniversary of our National Independence, and beg leave to tender, thro' you, my sincere acknowledgments for the honor conferred with an expression of regret that domestic concerns will necessarily detain me at home at that time. The approval of my course in the House of Representatives in sustaining the measures of our late excellent President, which you are pleased to express, gives me great & sincere pleasure. If those representing the Democracy of Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives have occasionally had difficulties to encounter they were always cheered in their course by the exemplary firmness of the Democratic Citizens of the First & Second Congressional Districts and their approbation, could not but be sufficient to sustain them in the performance of their duty at every hazard. If the propriety of those measures could ever have been doubtful, late events have fully justified them. Over banking in nearly all the States & the consequent over trading in the mercantile community & over speculating in nearly every class of our Citizens have amply verified the predictions of evil with which they were said to be pregnant. And until, according to the wish of our late patriotic President, all notes under the denomination of $20 shall have been driven from circulation and gold & silver substituted in their place the evils under which we are now suffering will not be removed. Such a measure, with a total separation of the fiscal concerns of the United States from the concerns of Banking Institutions, would, it is hoped, remove the disease under which we are now laboring and restore us to a healthful state. I subjoin a sentiment which, if deemed proper, may be used at your intended celebration, and am with sincere wishes for your health & happiness. --- Very respectfully, Your friend & obt. Servt. -- (Signed) Hen. A. Muhlenberg”. Martin Van Buren. He is pure, talented, experienced. His measures will justify the choice of the Democracy. His aim will always be the good of the people - the whole people" This item is Accompanied by a full Transcription from: "THE LINCOLN LIBRARY - SHIPPENSBURG, PA." On December 9, 1834, he wrote to John M. Read, later the Attorney General of Pennsylvania, about James Buchanan's election to the United States Senate, stating: "I rejoice in the election of our friend Buchanan" and that "he will be an honor to the State and of much service to our friends." Muhlenberg was again Reelected to the 25th Congress, this time as a Democrat, and served from March 4, 1829, until his resignation on February 9, 1838, when he was Appointed the First United States Minister to the Austrian Empire on February 8, 1838. He presented his credentials in Vienna on November 7, 1838, and served until September 18, 1840, when he left his post and was succeeded by Daniel Jenifer. He ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Pennsylvania twice in 1835 and 1838. He was nominated by the Democratic Party a third time in 1844, but died before the election took place |
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Lot Number: 47
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