1860 JAMES HARLAN. Shall the Territories be Africanized? Inscribed Abolitionist Charles Sumner.

Not offered at auction since 1964, a very scarce example from one of the leading men among the non-abolitionist wing of the new Republican Party.  Harlan, Representative of the State of Iowa, was opposed to slavery, but also opposed to black expansion into the territories of the West, whether as slave of free. In the present address, he expresses the view that the new territories are "only for the white race."  This anti-slavery and anti-black sentiment was especially prominent in Iowa. The Iowa Republican Party chose as its campaign slogan for 1860, "We are for land for the landless, not niggers for the niggerless." A similar slogan was adopted in nearby Kansas. An interesting item for Sumner to be distributing. Usually remembered as one of the leaders of the abolitionist movement, including a public near-death beating he received in Congress by a fellow [Southern] congressman, he grew more ideologically committed to abolitionism over time. He began as more of an "anti-slave" and anti