CANDIDATE FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. COLONEL ANDREW NEILL, OF SEGUIN, TEXAS, - - HIS ACTS, QUALIFICATIONS AND CLAIMS.
Austin: 1855 [July 12]. Broadside, 6-1/4" x 13-3/8." Title followed by eight laudatory paragraphs of text. Signed in type at the end, "J. DOUGLASS BROWN. Austin, July 12th, A.D. 1855." Light foxing in blank margins. Very Good.
Neill -- a brave, principled, selfless man -- offers his services "free of party." Living in Mississippi [by way of Scotland], when "the cry for help was heard from the shores of Texas, hither he rushed immediately. Leaving his home, friends, and his all, he came where to hope for success, seemed but the wild fancy of a mind driven to desperation."
The broadside narrates Neill's efforts "in driving back, suppressing, and overpowering the young Napoleon, Santa Anna." Wounded, "surrounded by merciless savages," imprisoned in "the dungeons of Mexico," he has also been a leader in public life. "A practicing attorney, none surpassed him."
J. Douglass Brown, who enthusiastically endorses Neill, was a Texas lawyer and land agent heavily involved in the State's politics. His business advertisements in the Waco Daily Examiner in 1853 extol his "23 years experience in Texas lands" and law practice "in the Courts of McLennan County, in the District Courts of the Fourteenth Judicial District in the Supreme and Federal Courts at Austin" [Waco Daily Examiner, Nov. 19, 1876, p.1]. Winkler 553 [1- U TX]. The Beinecke Library holds a copy. Despite Winkler's citation, our online search of the University of Texas online libraries catalog did not produce a copy. Not in Raines, Sabin. Not located on OCLC as of December 2022, or the online sites of U TX, AAS, Library of Congress. Item #38992
Price: $4,500.00