ILLUSTRATED ENGRAVED CERTIFICATE ACKNOWLEDGING A DONATION TO A TESTIMONIAL TO "THOMAS HOLLIDAY HICKS, WHO WAS GOVERNOR OF THIS STATE FROM 1858 TO 1862, IN RECOGNITION OF A LOYAL PEOPLE'S GRATITUDE FOR THE PATRIOTIC FIRMNESS WITH WHICH, DURING HIS ADMINISTRATION, HE SUCCESSFULLY RESISTED EVERY EFFORT TO SEDUCE OR FORCE THE STATE OF MARYLAND FROM ITS ALLEGIANCE TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNION UNDER IT."

[Hicks, Thomas H.]

Published by Lith. by Hoen & Co., Baltimore, 1862

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Oblong engraved broadside, 9-7/8" x 5-3/4." Printed in elegant typescript, with contributor's name [Ruben Hain-] and amount [$5] in ink manuscript, and signature of Fred Fickey, Jr., as treasurer. Lithograph with portrait of Governor Hicks; illustration of clasping hands Union and Liberty; Lady Liberty holding the American Flag and shield, standing next to the American Eagle holding "E Pluribus Unum" banner. Very Good. Hicks helped to hold Maryland in the Union, although he hated abolitionists, approved of slavery, and urged President Lincoln not to send troops through Maryland. Appointed to the U.S. Senate in 1862, he endorsed Lincoln's bid for reelection. This attractive certificate memorializes Hicks's considerable accomplishment. Without a loyal Maryland, Washington DC would have been isolated from the rest of the Union. Frederick Fickey, Jr. [1786-1877] was a Baltimore merchant of the wholesale house of F. Fickey & Sons, and Treasurer and Secretary of the Union State Central Committee of Maryland from at least 1861-1862. He was an original directors of the Maryland Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore, Chairman of the Committee of the City Council of Merchants of Baltimore in 1860, and one of the Commissioners of Public Works from 1861-1864. Seller Inventory # 39574

Bibliographic Details

Title: ILLUSTRATED ENGRAVED CERTIFICATE ...

Publisher: Lith. by Hoen & Co., Baltimore

Publication Date: 1862