1890 SIGNED Letter COLUMBUS DELANO Ohio SECRETARY Of INTERIOR For USYSEES GRANT
Item History & Price
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This listing is for an original circa 1905 signed letter from Columbus Delano. The letter is on a piece of stationary that measures 7-3/4” x 10". Please see scans for condition. This one of several authentic vintage autographs from a collection I just purchased. I will be listing many more in the coming days. I will happily combine shipping for winning bidders.
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Buyer to pay $4.95 for First Class shipping and handling anywhere in the US. Thank you and good luck.
BIOGRAPHY:
Columbus Delano (June 4, 1809 – October 23, 1896) was a lawyer, rancher, banker, statesman and a member of the prominent Delano family. Delano was elected U.S. Congressman from Ohio, serving two full terms and one partial one. Prior to the American Civil War, Delano was a National Republican and then a Whig; as a Whig he was identified with the faction of the party that opposed the spread of slavery into the Western territories, and he became a Republican when the party was founded as the major anti-slavery party after the demise of the Whigs in the 1850s. During Reconstruction Delano advocated federal protection of African-Americans' civil rights, and argued that the former Confederate states should be administered by the federal government, but were not part of the United States until they met the requirements for readmission to the Union.Delano served as President Ulysses S. Grant's Secretary of the Interior during a time of rapid Westward expansionism, and contended with conflicts between Native tribes (First Nations) and European settlers. He was instrumental in the establishment of America's first national park, supervising the first U.S. federally funded exploratory scientific expedition into Yellowstone in 1871, and becoming America's first national park overseer in 1872. In 1874, Delano requested that Congress protect Yellowstone through creation of a federally funded administrative agency, the first Secretary of the Interior to request such preservation of a nationally important site.Believing that tribal communalism and a nomadic lifestyle led to war and impoverishment, Delano argued the best Indian policy was to allot Native tribes small reservations in the Indian Territory. In Delano's view the reservation system humanely protected Native tribes from the encroachment of western settlers, aiding in "Indian" assimilation into white culture and independence from federal funding. To compel the Native tribes of the west to move to reservations, Delano supported the slaughter to near extinction of the vast buffalo herds, not including Yellowstone, which were essential to the maintenance of the Plains Indians' way of life.In the area of government reform, Delano opposed Grant's 1872 executive order to implement the recommendations of the first Civil Service Commission. The spoils system and corruption permeated throughout the Interior Department during his tenure, and Grant requested Delano's resignation in 1875; he left office with damage to his reputation for personal honesty. Although Interior scandals, at times, continued to fester in various succeeding administrations, corruption during Delano's tenure under Grant was excessive. Delano remained a spoilsman politician, at a time when civil service reformers demanded a federal merit system. Delano returned to Ohio to practice law, tend to his business interests, and raise livestock; he did not return to politics, and died in 1896.Historians are critical of Delano's tenure at the Interior Department, arguing that he could have done more to stop corruption, protect bison, outside of Yellowstone, and prevent the destruction of the culture of the Plains Indians. Concerning Yellowstone, Delano was considered to be an effective first administrator. The park aided in the recovery of free roaming buffalo. By August 2019, 4, 829 bison were counted in Yellowstone.[1]
Please see scans for condition.
Check out my other auctions for more authen...tic antique and vintage items.
Buyer to pay $4.95 for First Class shipping and handling anywhere in the US. Thank you and good luck.
BIOGRAPHY:
Columbus Delano (June 4, 1809 – October 23, 1896) was a lawyer, rancher, banker, statesman and a member of the prominent Delano family. Delano was elected U.S. Congressman from Ohio, serving two full terms and one partial one. Prior to the American Civil War, Delano was a National Republican and then a Whig; as a Whig he was identified with the faction of the party that opposed the spread of slavery into the Western territories, and he became a Republican when the party was founded as the major anti-slavery party after the demise of the Whigs in the 1850s. During Reconstruction Delano advocated federal protection of African-Americans' civil rights, and argued that the former Confederate states should be administered by the federal government, but were not part of the United States until they met the requirements for readmission to the Union.Delano served as President Ulysses S. Grant's Secretary of the Interior during a time of rapid Westward expansionism, and contended with conflicts between Native tribes (First Nations) and European settlers. He was instrumental in the establishment of America's first national park, supervising the first U.S. federally funded exploratory scientific expedition into Yellowstone in 1871, and becoming America's first national park overseer in 1872. In 1874, Delano requested that Congress protect Yellowstone through creation of a federally funded administrative agency, the first Secretary of the Interior to request such preservation of a nationally important site.Believing that tribal communalism and a nomadic lifestyle led to war and impoverishment, Delano argued the best Indian policy was to allot Native tribes small reservations in the Indian Territory. In Delano's view the reservation system humanely protected Native tribes from the encroachment of western settlers, aiding in "Indian" assimilation into white culture and independence from federal funding. To compel the Native tribes of the west to move to reservations, Delano supported the slaughter to near extinction of the vast buffalo herds, not including Yellowstone, which were essential to the maintenance of the Plains Indians' way of life.In the area of government reform, Delano opposed Grant's 1872 executive order to implement the recommendations of the first Civil Service Commission. The spoils system and corruption permeated throughout the Interior Department during his tenure, and Grant requested Delano's resignation in 1875; he left office with damage to his reputation for personal honesty. Although Interior scandals, at times, continued to fester in various succeeding administrations, corruption during Delano's tenure under Grant was excessive. Delano remained a spoilsman politician, at a time when civil service reformers demanded a federal merit system. Delano returned to Ohio to practice law, tend to his business interests, and raise livestock; he did not return to politics, and died in 1896.Historians are critical of Delano's tenure at the Interior Department, arguing that he could have done more to stop corruption, protect bison, outside of Yellowstone, and prevent the destruction of the culture of the Plains Indians. Concerning Yellowstone, Delano was considered to be an effective first administrator. The park aided in the recovery of free roaming buffalo. By August 2019, 4, 829 bison were counted in Yellowstone.[1]
