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Abe Lincoln's famous letter to Greeley...
Abe Lincoln's famous letter to Greeley...
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August 28, 1862
THE DEMOCRAT & AMERICAN, Manchester, New Hampshire, Aug. 28, 1862
* President Abraham Lincoln
* Horace Greeley letter
On page 3 is one of the more famous letters from Abraham Lincoln, being his reply to Horace Greeley's editorial of August 20, "A Prayer of Twenty Millions", which urged emancipation. Lincoln replies in his letter with his famous quote: "...My paramount object...is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it...", signed in type: A. LINCOLN. The full text of the letter is seen in the photos. A significant document expressing Lincoln's views on slavery from the middle of the Civil War.
There is also various "War News" throughout the issue but it pales in comparison to the Lincoln letter.
Four pages, some creases to the front leaf only, very nice condition.
Category: The Civil War
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