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“Let Us Have Faith that Right Makes Might…”
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN] SCHUYLER COLFAX,
Autograph Quote Signed, from Lincoln’s Cooper Institute speech given on February 27, 1860. Sept 10, 1877.
Schuyler Colfax, U.S. representative from Indiana and vice president under Ulysses S. Grant, pens a famous quote from Lincoln’s Cooper Institute speech.
Item #23916, $950
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Lincoln Prepares the Union Army to Vote
in the Election of 1864
SETH WILLIAMS. [ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Letter Signed to Richard N. Batchelder. “Head Qrs Army of the Potomac,” September 1, 1864.
Written just two months before the 1864 presidential election, Lincoln was banking on votes of soldier to secure his re-election.
Item #22952, $950
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Lincoln’s Third State of the Union Address
and Amnesty Proclamation
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. New York Times, New York, N.Y., Dec. 10, 1863, with “Supplement to The New York Times” complete with its own masthead. 12 pp. 14¾ x 21 in.
Contains Lincoln’s entire 1863 Message to Congress, where he reaffirmed his commitment to emancipation, as well as His Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, which laid out a plan to return the rebellious states to the Union fold. Commonly called the “Ten Percent Plan,” it allowed for a state to hold new elections when 10% of its 1860 voters took a loyalty oath to the Union.
Item #30001.20, $950
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“Old Neptune” and Stephen P. Lee Together
GIDEON WELLES,
Letter Signed as Secretary of the Navy, Navy Department, Washington, June 16, 1865.
Gideon Welles and Stephen P. Lee revoke an appointment at the end of the war.
Item #21893, $900
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Frederick Douglass Signed Deed
FREDERICK DOUGLASS,
Document Signed as recorder of deeds, Washington, D.C., 1881-1886. Approx. 3½ x 8½” folded. Sample Frame pictured.
While Douglass’s letters are scarce, documents signed during his tenure as recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia can be had very reasonably.
Item #20409, $895
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Lincoln’s 1861 State of the Union Message
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Book. Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress..., Volume 1, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861. 839 pp., 5¾ x 8¾ in.
Item #22671, $800
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The Nation Mourns
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, May 6, 1865. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
Engravings include: Lincoln and son Tad at home. Scene at the death bed of President Lincoln. Funeral service at the White House. Ford’s Theatre. Attempted assassination of Secretary Seward. Citizens viewing the body at City Hall, New York.
Item #H-5-6-1865, ON HOLD
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A Confederate Newspaper Prints Lincoln’s Response
to Horace Greeley’s Anti-Slavery Editorial
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. Richmond Whig, Richmond, Va., August 30, 1862. 2 pp., 17 x 24 in.
On the front page under “News from the North” is the text of Abraham Lincoln’s reply to New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley. Greeley’s letter urging Lincoln to emancipate all slaves in Union-held territory was known as “The Prayer of Twenty Millions.” It was first published on August 20, 1862. Lincoln responded on August 22, declaring that his paramount goal is to save the Union, regardless of its effect on slavery, as well as his personal views that all men should be free.
Item #30007.01, $650
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An Early Lincoln Campaign Biography
JOHN LOCKE SCRIPPS,
Pamphlet, “Tribune Tracts –No. 6. Life of Abraham Lincoln. Chapter 1. Early Life.” New York: Tribune, 1860. 32 pp. Original stitching intact, ads for The New York Tribune and the Tribune Almanac of 1860 on back cover, light age, small tear at bottom right not affecting text, minor chipping, otherwise good. 6 x 9¼ in.
An early Lincoln campaign biography based on interviews with Lincoln associates in Springfield.
Item #20521, $650
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Pro-Lincoln Reelection Broadside
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Pro Lincoln 1864 Campaign Broadside. 1864. 1 p., 10 1/8 x 13 1/8 in.
Item #23110, $600
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Lincoln’s Compensated Emancipation Proposal
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa., March 7, 1862. 8 pp., 15½ x 20½ in. With “Message from the President...Resolved, That the United States ought to co-operate with any State which may adopt gradual abolition of slavery.” [Printing Lincoln’s March 5 message to Congress on page 1.]
The United States is the only nation in history to end slavery through Civil War. Nations as diverse as Russia, the British Empire, France, Brazil, and others around the world ended their reliance on slave labor through legislative means that included some form of compensation to slave owners for their lost “assets.” Here, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports on the front page that Lincoln presented a special message to Congress with a plan to end slavery through compensation. There would be no takers among the slaveholding border states.
Item #30001.28, $500
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A Naval Physician Describes Tension
Between Lincoln and Admiral Goldsborough
A. S. HEATH. [CIVIL WAR],
Autograph Letter Signed, to his wife. 4 pp., 7½ x 9¾ in., “U.S. Steamer Daylight, Beaufort Harbor,” Beaufort, [North Carolina], May 23, 1862.
“the President [Lincoln] gives old [Admiral] Goldsborough fits, threatening to cashier him &c &c. Good for the President. Had he known what I have, about him (G) he would have come to the same conclusion six months ago.”
Item #22958, $500
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Lincoln’s Final State of the Union Message, 1864
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. New York Observer, New York, N.Y., Dec. 8, 1864. 8 pp. Page 2 contains the complete printing of Lincoln’s last State-of-the-Union address.
Item #30001.23, $500
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Frederick Douglass Signed Deed
FREDERICK DOUGLASS,
Document Signed as Recorder of Deeds, Washington, D.C., 1881-1886. Approx. 3½ x 8½” folded.
Image shown is a sample. To request an image of the deed currently available please email us at info@sethkaller.com
While Douglass’s letters are scarce, documents signed during his tenure as recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia can be had very reasonably.
Item #20409u, $495
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Peter Cooper’s Letter to Lincoln Regarding Emancipation
PETER COOPER. [SLAVERY],
Pamphlet. Letter of Peter Cooper, on Slave Emancipation, Loyal Publication Society, New York, 1862, 8pp., disbound.
“It is a fact that the enslavement of human beings has so far infused its insidious poison into the very hearts of the Southern people, that they have come to believe and declare the evil of slavery to be a good, and to require the power of Government to be exerted to maintain, extend, and perpetuate an institution that enables thousands to sell their own children, to be enslaved, with all their posterity, into hopeless bondage....”
The founder of New York City’s Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art echoes the language and logic of the Emancipation Proclamation (as well as citing some Southern pro-slavery arguments to demonstrate their ridiculousness) in this open letter to President Lincoln. Cooper and the Cooper Union had long been advocates of abolition and both Lincoln and Frederick Douglass had famously lectured at the institution.
Item #23579, $400
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“Little Tad. Ballad.” Sheet Music
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Printed Sheet Music. Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 1865. 6 pp., 11 x 14 in.
Item #22351.03, $395
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A New York Soldier’s Affidavit Allowing
a Proxy to Vote in the 1864 Election
[CIVIL WAR],
Partially Printed Document Signed by James M. Smith, countersigned by Jerome B. Parmenter, and Captain Joseph H. Allen. Richmond, Virginia, October 18, 1864. 1 p., 8 x 12½ in. With printed envelope restating affidavit’s claim on the outside.
Item #21264.05, $375
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A New York Soldier’s Affidavit Allowing
a Proxy to Vote in the 1864 Election
[CIVIL WAR],
Partially Printed Document Signed by Thomas Halligan with his X mark, countersigned by John G. Brown, and Seneca Warner Jr. Petersburg, Virginia, October 21, 1864. 1 p., 8 x 12½ in. With printed envelope restating affidavit’s claim on the outside, and additional affidavit of “Unregistered Soldier’s Voucher.”
Item #21264.06, $375
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Taking the Copper-Heads to Task in 1864:
“The Peace Democrat for Salt River”
[ELECTION OF 1864],
Printed Card. “How are you Copperhead?/ The Peace Democrat/ For Salt River,” with a Democratic Donkey at the center. “‘Honest Abe’ will furnish another Gun Boat for ‘Little Mac’ in November.” 3 x 2½ in.
Item #20502.01, $300
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“Funeral March to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln” Sheet Music
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Printed Sheet Music. Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., [1865]. 6 pp., 11 x 14 in.
Item #22351.04, $295
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