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Printed the day of Lincoln's "House Divided" speech... Much on the Mormons...
Printed the day of Lincoln's "House Divided" speech... Much on the Mormons...
Item # 705277
June 17, 1858
NEW YORK TIMES, June 17, 1858
* Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois
* A "day of" mention of the convention
* Mormons - Mormonism - Utah War
Near the top of the front page is: "Illinois Republican State Convention" is a report datelined Springfield, Ill., Wednesday, June 16. The one paragraph report concerns the first day of the convention noting in part: "...that the convention met today and that ...Resolutions were adopted endorsing the Philadelphia platform and denouncing the Dred Scott, decision and reaffirming the power of Congress over the Territories."
On this day, June 17 (the date of this paper), Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "House Divided" speech at that convention when he accepted the nomination as a candidate for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas.
Also on the front page is about two-thirds of a column taken up with Mormon-themed reports, including items headed: "Still Later From Utah" "Return of Governor Cumming to Camp Scott--Everything Quiet in the Mormon Capital--No News of Captain Marcy" and "The Dispatches Received by General Scott" and "Items from Camp Scott with a dateline of Fort Bridger, U.T., and also: "Tribute to the Utah Army" with a dateline of Camp Scott, U.T.,March 22, 1858.
Page 4 has over a full column taken up with an interesting article headed: "The Mormon Exodus". Close-trimmed at the bottom of page 4 partially shaves letters from the last line here.
Eight pages, irregular at the blank spine from disbinding, archival strengthening here at the spine, othe5wise good condition.
* Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois
* A "day of" mention of the convention
* Mormons - Mormonism - Utah War
Near the top of the front page is: "Illinois Republican State Convention" is a report datelined Springfield, Ill., Wednesday, June 16. The one paragraph report concerns the first day of the convention noting in part: "...that the convention met today and that ...Resolutions were adopted endorsing the Philadelphia platform and denouncing the Dred Scott, decision and reaffirming the power of Congress over the Territories."
On this day, June 17 (the date of this paper), Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "House Divided" speech at that convention when he accepted the nomination as a candidate for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas.
Also on the front page is about two-thirds of a column taken up with Mormon-themed reports, including items headed: "Still Later From Utah" "Return of Governor Cumming to Camp Scott--Everything Quiet in the Mormon Capital--No News of Captain Marcy" and "The Dispatches Received by General Scott" and "Items from Camp Scott with a dateline of Fort Bridger, U.T., and also: "Tribute to the Utah Army" with a dateline of Camp Scott, U.T.,March 22, 1858.
Page 4 has over a full column taken up with an interesting article headed: "The Mormon Exodus". Close-trimmed at the bottom of page 4 partially shaves letters from the last line here.
Eight pages, irregular at the blank spine from disbinding, archival strengthening here at the spine, othe5wise good condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War