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Famous letter from Lincoln to Greeley...
Famous letter from Lincoln to Greeley...
Item # 691078
August 25, 1862
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, August 25, 1862
* Famous Abraham Lincoln letter
* "A Prayer of Twenty Millions" reply
* Liberal Republican Horace Greeley
The front page contains 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.
A significant document expressing Lincoln's views on slavery from the middle of the Civil War, and great to have this content on the front page.
This is the tri-weekly edition meaning it has but 4 pages, paginated 1, 4, 5, 8, containing a limited amount of news distilled from the daily editions. Fortunately the significant Lincoln letter is here.
Category: Yankee
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