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Lincoln's famous rally letter (speech)... Defends his Emancipation Proclamation...



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September 03, 1863

BOSTON DAILY ADVERTISER, Sept. 3, 1863 

* President Abraham Lincoln
* Famous letter to James Conkling
* Defending the Emancipation Proclamation


The ftpg. has the full text of the lengthy & rather famous: "President Lincoln's Letter" to his friend in Springfield, James Conckling, who asked him to speak at a rally there. Lincoln could not attend but sent this rousing letter, largely in defense of his Emancipation Proclamation. It includes in part: "Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. It will then have been proved that, among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case, and pay the cost. And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation; while, I fear, there will be some white ones, unable to forget that, with malignant heart, and deceitful speech, they strove to hinder it. Still, let us not be over-sanguine of a speedy final triumph. Let us be quite sober. Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result," and is signed in type: A. Lincoln.
Note: Although not printed within this issue, after the rally, John Murray Forbes stated that the letter & the Emancipation Proclamation "...will live in history side by side...It meets the fears of the timid & the doubts of the reformer. It process that the Proclamation and the policy resulting from it are the most conservative, both of liberty and of our form of government."
Four pages, large folio size, a small ink stain hole above the Lincoln letter, good condition. The folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.

Category: Yankee