Early on Abraham Lincoln & the slavery issue... Execution of Pirate Hicks...
Item # 712513
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NEW YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE, July 21, 1860 About 1 1/2 columns on the front page are taken up with a lengthy: "Speech By Horace Greeley" headed: "The Old Whigs And Mr. Lincoln", given at a recent mass meeting in Union Square.
The speech has some very interesting comments concerning Abraham Lincoln, just a few including: "...I propose then to say a few words in behalf of our old Whig friend Lincoln of those days & against some of the assaults made on him to-day...Now gentlemen, I defy any man to show that Abraham Lincoln, in any act of his life, went an inch further in this direction, which is called sectional, than Mr. James Brooks does in that manifesto..." with more.
Page 7 has a lengthy article headed: "The Execution of Hicks", concerning Albert Hicks, or "Pirate Hicks", the last man executed in the United States for piracy. This article takes close to two columns and has a subhead: "A Story of Hicks, the Pirate".
Eight pages, good condition.
The speech has some very interesting comments concerning Abraham Lincoln, just a few including: "...I propose then to say a few words in behalf of our old Whig friend Lincoln of those days & against some of the assaults made on him to-day...Now gentlemen, I defy any man to show that Abraham Lincoln, in any act of his life, went an inch further in this direction, which is called sectional, than Mr. James Brooks does in that manifesto..." with more.
Page 7 has a lengthy article headed: "The Execution of Hicks", concerning Albert Hicks, or "Pirate Hicks", the last man executed in the United States for piracy. This article takes close to two columns and has a subhead: "A Story of Hicks, the Pirate".
Eight pages, good condition.
Item from our most recent catalog - #368 - released for July, 2026
Category: Pre-Civil War
Price
$57
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.