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Abraham Lincoln's last public speech & last proclamation...
Abraham Lincoln's last public speech & last proclamation...
Item # 703906
April 12, 1865
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, April 12, 1865 (price reduced due to condition) The front page has one column heads including: "RECONSTRUCTION" "Important Speech by the President" "His Views On Peace & Reconstruction".
The text of Lincoln's speech begins: "We meet this evening not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart. The evacuation of Petersburgh & Richmond & the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hopes of a righteous & speedy peace whose joyous expression cannot be restrained..." & carrying on to take well over a full column.
This is recorded in history as the very last public speech by Lincoln, who would be assassinated 2 days after the printing of this issue.
Also on the front page is: "A Proclamation" "Treatment of National Vessels of Foreign Powers" (his last proclamation - #128) concerning our ships of war in foreign ports, signed by him in type: Abraham Lincoln.
These two documents are both dated April 11.
Page 4 has editorial commentary on both the Proclamation and the speech.
Eight pages, there is folding rubbing to the front page which does cause some loss to the Lincoln speech (see the photos), and a small wormhole thru each leaf that does not affect mentioned content.
Category: The Civil War
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