Raynors HCA 2015-08
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Published by H.H. Lloyd & Co., 1863, 22pp, original wrappers, fine save for lower corner missing front cover. The Preface lauds Lincoln's "vigorous common sense, and his strict integrity and honesty of purpose," and emphasizes that he has often "had no precedents to guide him." The Letters bring together some of Lincoln's most well-known utterances: to McClellan, urging him to stop his dawdling; to Horace Greeley, with his famous remark that "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it- if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it- and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that"; to Fernando Wood, the Copperhead Mayor of New York City; to the Albany Committee, complaining about the arrest of Vallandigham, in which Lincoln says, "Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?"; to Governor Seymour, defending his Emancipation Proclamation; and to the Springfield [IL] Convention, explaining his rejection of compromise because it will not preserve the Union. Monaghan 226. A rare Lincoln pamphlet.
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