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A great contemporary quote from Lincoln's famous speech - "A House divided against itself cannot stand."...
A great contemporary quote from Lincoln's famous speech - "A House divided against itself cannot stand."...
Item # 707504
January 24, 1860
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Jan. 24, 1860
* Abraham Lincoln as a senatorial candidate
The front-page has a rare quote of a portion of Lincoln's very famous speech from 1858 during the Lincoln-Douglas debates. During a speech on the Senate floor, Senator Douglas, speaking of Lincoln, states in part: "...When he returned to Illinois in 1858, to canvas the state, he had to meet this 'irrepressible conflict.' True, the Senator from New York had not made his Rochester speech...He wished to call attention to a single passage in a speech by Mr. Lincoln, who was nominated for the U.S. Senate by the Republican Convention, and which speech had been previously written & agreed to in caucus by most of the lasers of the party: 'In my opinion, the slavery agitation will not cease till the crisis shall have been reached and passed. A House divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this Union cannot endure permanently half slave and half free...", with a bit more on Lincoln's historic speech.
Other news on inside pages is in regard to slavery, Harper's Ferry, and similar topics of the day.
Eight pages, slightly irregular at the spine from disbinding, occasional minor print-creases, in very nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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