NEW YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE, Dec. 15, 1860  

* Slaver ship "Cora" captured
* re. Abraham Lincoln election

Many fine articles within, including an interesting article: "Capture of Another Slaver" which concerns the capture of the slave ship Cora. It begins: "Advices from the African squadron report the capture of another slaver, with 705 Africans on board. She is called the bark Cora and hails from New York. She was taken about 80 miles off the Congo River..." with more detail.
Other articles include: "The Secession Movement--Picture of a Home at the South--Letters From Charleston" "The Presidential Contest" which has a chart of votes by state. The report begins: "It is morally certain that the seven Presidential Electors chosen on the Pacific slope have voted...for Lincoln and Hamlin...".
Also a report from the Pony Express; "She is Good For Nothing, by Hans Christian Andersen" and: "A Slave-holding Republic".
Eight pages, some minor damp staining, minor margin wear, generally good condition.

Background: Published on December 15, 1860, this issue of the New York Weekly Tribune stands as a profound historical artifact capturing a fractured United States on the absolute precipice of the American Civil War, uniquely binding the nation's existential domestic crisis with its complicity in the global slave trade. Its core significance lies in its raw, real-time documentation of a collapsing Union: it prints the final certified West Coast electoral votes that mathematically secured Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, alongside volatile dispatches from Charleston just five days before South Carolina became the first state to officially secede. Simultaneously, the prominent report on the USS Constellation capturing the New York-based slave ship Cora with 705 captive Africans aboard exposes the deep hypocrisy of Northern merchant ports facilitating the illegal, illicit transatlantic slave trade even as the country tore itself apart over the political future of chattel slavery. Wrapped together with dispatches carried by the newly minted Pony Express and cultural fixtures like Hans Christian Andersen's literature, this single eight-page edition vividly illustrates how the compounding pressures of constitutional crisis, bleeding-edge communications technology, and the moral horrors of slavery converged to permanently alter the course of American history.