AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED BY JOHN SINGLETON MOSBY,

AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED BY JOHN SINGLETON MOSBY, (image 1/2)
AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED BY JOHN SINGLETON MOSBY, (image 2/2)
Pricing & History
(1833-1916). ALS, 2pp, 7.75 x 9.75", Richmond, VA, Jan. 2, 1874. Addressed to Oliver P. Morton. Concerns an follow-up on an earlier conversation between the men, and continues with some reasons why the Civil Rights bill should not pass as written. Mosby writes, in part: Candor compels me to say that the passage of the Civil Rights bill before Congress will defeat our purposes. I do not myself share in the alarm it has excited among our people -- still as a fact the effect of its introduction into Congress has almost created a panic here. I very much fear that its passage will utterly destroy our free school system - for this reason men of all parties have opposed it - including the negroes who will be the greatest sufferers. It's defeat would secure the State of Va. to the support of the Administration. The Bill will confer no practical benefit on the negroes, but at the same time it will give occasion to thousands of malicious prosecutions. Could you not deprive the bill of these repulsive (??) by simply giving the party aggreived a civil action for damages excepting schools & churches from its operation. J.S. Mosby enlisted in a Virginia cavalry unit at the outbreak of war. He and one other in his unit were ready to re-enlist at the end of their year of service. He was head of his regiment for only 2 months, but enough to get the read more
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