Johnson's state-of-the-union address: Reconstruction, & tribute to Lincoln...
Item # 706987
December 06, 1865
DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Dec. 6, 1865 If there is a title reporting any political news that is desired by collectors it would be this one, as the Intelligencer Over half of the front page is taken up with the: "MESSAGE of the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES" which consumes 4 columns with the complete text, signed in type: Andrew Johnson.
As would be expected, there is much on Reconstruction efforts from the Civil War, but also much tribute to the recent death of Abraham Lincoln. Portions include: "To express gratitude to God in the name of the people for the preservation of the United States is my first duty in addressing you. Our thoughts next revert to the death of the late President by an act of parricidal treason. The grief of the nation is still fresh...that his loss was deplored in all parts of the Union, and that foreign nations have rendered justice to his memory. His removal cast upon me a heavier weight of cares than ever devolved upon any one of his predecessors. To fulfill my trust I need the support and confidence of all who are associated with me in the various departments of Government..." with much more.
And near the conclusion: "...Where, in past history, does a parallel exist to the public happiness which is within the reach of the people of the United States? Where in any part of the globe can institutions be found so suited to their habits or so entitled to their love as their own free Constitution? Every one of them, then, in whatever part of the land he has his home, must wish its perpetuity...Who will not join with me in the prayer that the Invisible Hand which has led us through the clouds that gloomed around our path will so guide us onward to a perfect restoration of fraternal affection that we of this day may be able to transmit our great inheritance of State governments in all their rights, of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, to our posterity, and they to theirs through countless generations?"
Page 2 begins with much editorial commentary on Johnson's Address.
Four pages, large folio size, two archival mends at the top of inside pages, nice condition. Folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.
As would be expected, there is much on Reconstruction efforts from the Civil War, but also much tribute to the recent death of Abraham Lincoln. Portions include: "To express gratitude to God in the name of the people for the preservation of the United States is my first duty in addressing you. Our thoughts next revert to the death of the late President by an act of parricidal treason. The grief of the nation is still fresh...that his loss was deplored in all parts of the Union, and that foreign nations have rendered justice to his memory. His removal cast upon me a heavier weight of cares than ever devolved upon any one of his predecessors. To fulfill my trust I need the support and confidence of all who are associated with me in the various departments of Government..." with much more.
And near the conclusion: "...Where, in past history, does a parallel exist to the public happiness which is within the reach of the people of the United States? Where in any part of the globe can institutions be found so suited to their habits or so entitled to their love as their own free Constitution? Every one of them, then, in whatever part of the land he has his home, must wish its perpetuity...Who will not join with me in the prayer that the Invisible Hand which has led us through the clouds that gloomed around our path will so guide us onward to a perfect restoration of fraternal affection that we of this day may be able to transmit our great inheritance of State governments in all their rights, of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, to our posterity, and they to theirs through countless generations?"
Page 2 begins with much editorial commentary on Johnson's Address.
Four pages, large folio size, two archival mends at the top of inside pages, nice condition. Folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.
Item from our most recent catalog - #366 - released for May, 2026
Category: Post-Civil War
