Lot n° 325
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HUGO Victor [Besançon, 1802 - Paris, 1885], poète et écrivain français
Printed in Guernsey. Printed copy dated "Hauteville House, November 22, 1868"; 43.5 x 10 cm. Copy with the autograph signed "A Eugène
Pelletan Victor Hugo" at the bottom. This is Victor Hugo's second letter to Spain.
"From several points in Spain, from A Coruña, through the organ of the democratic committee, from Oviedo, Seville, Barcelona, Zaragoza, the patriotic city, from Cadiz, the revolutionary city, from Madrid, through the generous voice of Emilio Castelar, a second call is made to me. I'm being interrogated. I'll get it.
What's this all about? Slavery.
Will Spain, which in a single jolt has just rejected all the old opprobrium, fanaticism, absolutism, scaffolding, divine right, keep from all this past the most odious thing of all, slavery? I say no!
Abolition, and immediate abolition. Such is the duty..."
The print ends: "O noble Spanish people, this is the second liberation for you. You have delivered yourself from the despot: now deliver yourself from the slave.
Victor Hugo."
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