Rare same-day printing of Lincoln's inaugural address...

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March 04, 1861

THE EVENING POST, New York, March 4, 1861

* President-elect Abraham Lincoln
* First Inauguration (early, same day)
* Dawn of the Civil War

The notable content is certainly Lincoln's inauguration which is found on page 3. The top of a column has "Third Edition - four o'clock" with heads: "INAUGURAL ADDRESS" "ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States" "Policy of the New Administration" "The Federal Property Must be Recovered" "The Chicago Platform Re-affirmed".
This being the 4:00 edition, this is a rather rare, same-day report & printing of Lincoln's inaugural address. Almost all other newspapers of the day printed the inaugural address in their issue of March 5.
Related articles on page 3 include: "The New Administration" "Mr. Lincoln Firm" "The Tone of the Inaugural Address" and: "Prospects of the Inauguration". Page 2 has an editorial: "The Inauguration"
What follows is the complete text of Lincoln's first inaugural address, taking nearly two columns. Lincoln concludes with: "...In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.

I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
Other related articles on page 3 include: "The New Administration" "Mr. Lincoln Firm" "The Tone of the Inaugural Address" and: "Prospects of the Inauguration". Page 3 has an editorial: "The Inauguration".
Four pages, very large folio size, there is discrete, archival strengthening at the margin, spine, and central fold, minor loss to a lower corner affects just 2 words in the editorial, otherwise good condition.
The folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.

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