Powerful and Historically Important Autograph Quote Signed

1850. framed. near fine. Autograph quote signed. 7 1/4" X 2 1/4", written in brown iron gall ink, January 15, 1850, at the very height of the heated debates in the United States Senate that would eventually culminate into the Compromise of 1850; less than two weeks before Henry Clay's fiery speech before the Senate and just three months before Daniel Webster's resignation. In full: "Equal Rights for All: The first political lesson of Americans not fully learned as yet. Senate Chamber, January 15th, 1850 S. P. Chase" Item has been put into a diamond cut beige and brown mat with two openings, accompanied by an original steel engraving of Chase by John Sartain, and placed into a vintage gold wooden frame.

CHASE, Salmon P. (1808-1873). American politician and jurist who served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, U.S. Senator and Governor from Ohio, and Secretary of the Treasury. He was a chief opponent of the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas Nebraska Act