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Beset by a bloody contest of power, pride, and prejudice, Lincoln saved and re-invented our nation. Had America Co n t e n t s & Ti m e l i n e remained shrunken physically, economically, and morally by the institution of slavery, how would the Declaration of 1809 Born in Kentucky Independence and the Constitution be viewed today? 1830 Moves with family to Illinois 1837 Law partnership with John T. Stuart Collectors play an enduring role in preserving and sharing Stuart & Lincoln legal document (p. 4) our history. In celebration of the 200th anniversary of 1842 Marries Mary Todd (p. 22) Abraham Lincoln’s birth, we are pleased to issue this catalog 1843 Throws his hat into the ring (p. 5) for collectors. Lincoln-Grimsley trunk (p. 6) 1847-49 Congressman and Whig (p. 7) The unfolding of America’s destiny can be seen and felt in 1857 Fights Dred Scott decision (pp. 7-9) original Lincoln-related documents and artifacts. Organized 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates (p. 11) chronologically, though with liberties when necessary, each 1860 Cooper Union Address (p. 10) entry represents an opportunity – history you can own. Presidential campaign and election (pp. 11-13) South Carolina secedes Lincoln’s evolution from a self-effacing novice to an assertive 1861 First Inaugural (p. 40) leader is evident here. Highlights that effectively bookend Fort Sumter attacked, First Bull Run Lincoln’s political life are his letter suggesting himself for 1862 Proposes compensated emancipation (p. 14) Congress (page 5) and an extremely rare autograph manuscript Ironclads at Hampton Roads (p. 15) page of his last State of the Union address (page 30). Another Battle of Antietam highlight is the pair of dividers that Lincoln used to mark up Removes McClellan (p. 18) maps and follow army movements. It was given on May, 21 1863 Emancipation Proclamation (pp. 16-17) 1865 by Robert Todd Lincoln to the head of the telegraph Battle of Gettysburg (p. 20) office (page 34). Capture of Vicksburg Gettysburg Address (p. 21) 1864 Proclamation of Amnesty & Reconstruction Au t h e n t i c i t y – Gu a r a n t e e d Grant appointed lt. general (p. 40) We unconditionally guarantee the items in this catalog. We Sherman captures Atlanta can often provide definitive authentication and research notes. Campaign and reelection (pp. 26-28) In addition we will arrange for independent authentication Pardoning a murderous mutineer (p. 23) on request. Martha’s Vineyard whaler (p. 25) State of the Union Address (pp. 30-31) 1865 13th Amendment (pp. 28-29) Te r m i n o l o g y Second Inaugural (p. 41) Autograph Letter Signed or Autograph Manuscript Signed: Lee surrenders, Davis captured (p. 32) The text and the signature are in the hand of the signer. Lincoln shot by Booth; Dies (pp. 32-37) Letter Signed or Manuscript Document Signed: Lincoln’s dividers (pp. 34-35) The text is penned by someone other than the signer. 1861-1865 Harper’s Weekly issues (pp. 40-41) Broadside: A single-page printing used to spread news. 1867-1886 S. Chase, F. Douglass (pp. 38-39) 1914 T. Roosevelt on Lincoln (p. 42)

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An e a r l y Li n c o l n d o c u m e n t wi t h William Butler, Sangamon County Court clerk, had e x c e l l e n t a ss o c i a t i o n s accused Lincoln earlier in 1839 of double-crossing his political friends. Lincoln replied that “I... am willing his document captures the insular web of early to cut my own throat from ear to ear... [if] you shall TIllinois law and politics. The verso contains two seriously say, that you believe me capable of betraying Autograph Endorsements Signed by Lincoln, and one my friends for any price.” Lincoln concluded by calling by his mentor and first law partner, John T. Stuart. himself “Your friend in spite of your ill-nature.” The front is a summons signed by a controversial Lincoln correspondent, William Butler. LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Autograph Endorsements Signed two times, “Stuart & Lincoln,” Springfield, Historical Background Ill., August 6, 1839 and January 14, 1840. 2 pp. In this case, David Prickett was ordered to pay St. 7¼ x 12”. #8914 $9,500 Louis merchants Kerr & Co. $513.49. Prickett had been clerk of the Illinois House of Representatives while Lincoln served there in 1834 and 1836. In 1837, Prickett became prosecuting attorney while Lincoln practiced law. He was then defeated for a judgeship by Stephen T. Logan, who would succeed Stuart as Lincoln’s law partner.

Twenty years before Lincoln’s monumental debates with Stephen Douglas, John T. Stuart had his own memorable run-in with Douglas. In 1838, during a debate in Springfield, “Stuart seized his little opponent by the neck and carried him around the square. The Little Giant retaliated by biting his assailant’s thumb until it was half-severed” (Gerald M. Capers, quoted in www.mrlincolnandfriends.org).

Li n c o l n i n Br i e f – No Ho r s i n g Ar o u n d

portion of the demurrer in Andrew Johnstone A v. John Weedman. Johnstone hired Weedman to feed and pasture his horse. Weedman rode the horse without permission, and the horse died shortly thereafter. Johnstone sued Weedman for $300. Jointly defending Weedman with local attorney Clifton H. Moore, Lincoln argued that Weedman’s ride did not cause the horse’s death. The jury found for Weedman. Johnstone appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court, where Lincoln’s argument again prevailed.

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Autograph Document Signed, “Moore & Lincoln pd,” Clinton, Ill., September 28, 1843. 1 p. 7½ x 4¾”. #21990 Sold 4 Fo r De t a i l e d De s c r i p t i o n s Vi s i t www .s e t h k a l l e r .n e t Li n c o l n Th r o ws Hi s Ha t i n t o t h e Ri n g

“Th e m o s t r e v e a l i n g pi e c e o f different Whig leader after each term. Lincoln’s turn c o r r e sp o n d e n c e … [o f ] t h e e a r l y came four years later; he served as a U.S. representative p o l i t i ca l Li n c o l n ” – Ca r l Sa n d b u r g from 1847 to 1849.

incoln lines up support for his first Congressional The self-deprecatory reference to “my particular friends L run, initiating the strategy that would win him (if I have any),” echoes Lincoln’s now famous statement the presidency 17 years later. on entering local politics: “I was born, and have ever remained, in the most humble walks of life. I have no Transcript wealthy or popular relations or friends to recommend “Springfield, Feby 14, 1843 me....” (Address to the People of Sangamon County, 1832) Friend Hull: Your county and ours are almost The strategy Lincoln developed here, applying for sure to be placed in the same congressional support but not assuming that his correspondent, district. I would like to be its Representative; still “will be for me against all other whigs,” became the circumstances may happen to prevent my even centerpiece of his presidential campaign. Seeking being a candidate. If, however, there are any whigs the 1860 Republican nomination, Lincoln stated, “I in Tazewell who would as soon I should represent suppose I am not the first choice of a very great many. them as any other person, I would be glad they Our policy, then, is to give no offence to others – would not cast me aside until they see and hear leave them in a mood to come to us, if they shall be further what turn things take. compelled to give up their first love.” On the third Do not suppose, Esqr. that in addressing this ballot, after the “favorite sons” had failed to garner letter to you, I assume that you will be for me enough votes, Lincoln won the nomination. against all other whigs; I only mean, that I know you to be my personal friend, a good whig, and LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Autograph Letter an honorable man, to whom I may, without fear, Signed, to Illinois Congressman Alden communicate a fact which I wish my particular Hull, Springfield, Ill., February 14, 1843. friends (if I have any) to know. 1 p., with autograph address leaf. 7¾ x 9½”. There is nothing new here now worth telling. #21994 $90,000 Your friend as ever A. Lincoln”

Historical Background Carl Sandburg, one of Lincoln’s notable biographers, wrote an appreciation of this letter in 1925: “Lincoln as a ‘mixer’ in politics is seen; in a finely frank way he asks Hull to be for him, offers irresistible compliments, and then swiftly, whimsically, and with a hint of melancholy, brings to a close a letter that it wouldn’t worry him any if it were published to the world.” (Sandburg’s original letter is included with this letter.)

Lincoln didn’t get the nomination. However, as a delegate to the Whig District Convention in May, he secured an agreement that the seat would rotate to a

5 914.289.1776 . s k a l l e r @s e t h k a l l e r .n e t Th e Fa m o u s Li n c o l n -Gr i m sl e y Tr u n k

Ju s t b e f o r e s e t t i n g o f f t o Although its provenance is well known, mysteries b e g i n h is p r e sid e n c y , Li n c o l n s t o r e d h is remain. The trunk was likely made in 1789–did p e r s o n a l e f f e c t s i n t h is t r u n k Lincoln acquire it secondhand, or did he inherit it from his father or step-mother? Did the family use the week before embarking on his historic rail trunk during their move from Kentucky to Indiana A journey from Springfield to the nation’s capital, in 1816, or to Illinois in 1830? Did Lincoln use it President-elect Lincoln filled this much-used trunk as a circuit-riding lawyer, as U.S. congressman, and as with his and Mary Todd Lincoln’s personal effects. He delegate to the Whig convention in Philadelphia? delivered it for safekeeping to Mary’s favorite cousin, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Todd Grimsley. Lincoln likely did use the trunk on his first trp to New York, but not on his crucial 1860 trip. He mentioned Historical Background at the time Mary’s complaints about his beat-up old trunk and humorously worried that he would not be “To make [your letter] more secure than it would able to recognize the replacement she supplied. be in my hat, where I carry most all my packages, I put it in my trunk …” A file of provenance, documentation, and historical (Lincoln to C.R. Welles, 1849) background is included. Having been used by Mr. Lincoln for many years, and having held the personal I first heard of this trunk in 1992 when I acquired one effects that the Lincolns wanted kept for them in of Lincoln’s most important manuscripts, his “House Springfield in 1861, the Lincoln-Grimsley trunk is one Divided” Speech, for the Gilder Lehrman Collection. of the most storied Lincoln artifacts. Sotheby’s described the source, the “‘Grimsley Trunk’ or ‘Grimsley Carpetbag,’” as “one of the three [LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]. Dome-top wooden and fundamental archives of Lincoln’s retained papers… cowhide trunk, with key. Label of “William Judson, what Lincoln himself called his ‘literary bureau’: all Trunk Maker… York, [England].” Lined by maker with his non-legal writings from before the election to the 1789 newspaper, decorated with floral vine and leaf Presidency which he did not need in Washington.” stenciling. (Left behind by Lincoln in Springfield, Over time, the contents, unfortunately, were dispersed February 1861.) 33 x 17 x 14”. #21924 $95,000 or destroyed. The carpetbag was also destroyed, leaving this trunk as one of the foremost relics from Lincoln’s pre-presidential days.

6 Fo r De t a i l e d De s c r i p t i o n s Vi s i t www .s e t h k a l l e r .n e t Li n c o l n Wo r k s “To Se c u r e t h e El e c t i o n o f Ge n . Ta y l o r ”

A r a r e l e t t e r a s a Wh i g In June 1848, at the Whig National Convention in Co n g r e ss m a n , s u pp o r t i n g Za c h a r y Philadelphia, he supported Zachary Taylor for the Ta y l o r ’s p r e sid e n t i a l b id presidency. Following Taylor’s election, Lincoln sought the office of Commissioner of the General Land incoln systematically seeks to identify and target Office. Instead, he was offered the governorship of the L potential supporters. His efforts to ensure that newly-organized Oregon Territory. Having no desire “correct information... reach[es] the mass of the people” to move further west, and seeing a limited future for would be familiar to today’s political strategists. a Whig in Oregon, Lincoln declined. Certain that his political career was over, “It is believed that all that is necessary to he returned to Springfield secure the election of Gen. Taylor, is for correct to practice law. information to reach the mass of the people. I therefore earnestly request that you will lose no LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. time in forwarding lists for your neighborhood. Printed Letter Signed, I would suggest that the names of the Whigs be Washington, D.C. 1848. distinguished from those of the more moderate of 1 p. 7½ x 9½”. The word our opponents...” “neighborhood” and the postscript were added by Lincoln represented the Illinois Seventh District in a clerical hand. the House of Representatives from 1847 to 1849. #21953 $36,000

A Dr e d f u l De c i s i o n

A f i r s t e di t i o n o f t h e HOWARD, BENJAMIN C. Report of the Decision of Su p r e m e Co u r t ’s i n f a m o u s r u l i n g the Supreme Court of the United States and the Opinions of the Judges thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus n Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), the Supreme Court John F.A. Sandford..., Washington, D.C.: Cornelius I declared that blacks could not be United States Wendell, 1857. First edition. 239 pp. 5½ x 8¾”. citizens and that the 1820 Missouri Compromise was #21435 $3,800 unconstitutional. The decision inflamed sectional tensions and helped trigger the Civil War.

“…It is the opinion of the court that the act of Congress which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning property of this kind in the territory of the United States north of the line therein mentioned, is not warranted by the Constitution, and is therefore void; and that neither Dred Scott himself, nor any of his family, were made free by being carried into this territory.”

In his “House Divided” Speech, Lincoln replied that the decision did “obvious violence to the plain unmistakable language” of the Declaration of Independence and our other founding documents. 7 914.289.1776 . s k a l l e r @s e t h k a l l e r .n e t Fi g h t i n g t h e Ex p a n s i o n o f Sla v e r y , Li n c o l n Pr o p o s e s Hi s Be s t Ma n f o r Co n g r e ss

A p o l i t i c a l l y r e -e n e r g iz e d I have not forgotten my course towards ‘Jim’ Li n c o l n s h r e wd l y p l o t s t o s t o p [Matheny] for a nomination in 1856 which you t h e sp r e a d o f s l a v e r y also well know- The difficulty then was on a point which has since been measurably superseded incoln asks Illinois’s future governor to plant by the Dred Scott decision; and he is with us on L an anonymous endorsement for Congressional that- [William] Butler says you rather have an candidate James Matheny in local newspapers. Though eye to getting our old friend Bill Greene on the Matheny was not a Republican, Lincoln explains, track- Nothing would please me better, whenever “he is with us” in opposing the Dred Scott decision. he got on to ground that would suit you, except Broadening the base of the Republican Party, Lincoln it would give us no access to the Fillmore votes. argues, is essential to defeating pro-slavery forces. Don’t you see? We must have some one who will reach the Fillmore men, both for the direct and Complete Transcript the incidental effect. “Springfield, March 9. 1858. I wish you would see Nult [Lynn McNulty] Hon. R. Yates Greene, and present this view to him. Point out to My dear Sir: him the necessities of the case, and also how the If you approve of the following question, as to ‘Jim’ is varied since 1856. contrive to have it appear in some one of the Let this be strictly confidential. anti administration papers down your way- better Yours as ever, there than here. A. Lincoln” ‘Mr. Editor: Why may not all anti-administration men in this District vote for James H. Matheny, of Springfield, for Congress? He was opposed to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise; was for Fillmore in 1856, but never was a Know-Nothing- He is now opposed to the Lecompton Constitution, and the Dred Scott decision- Who can be more suitable, when a union of Fremont and Fillmore men, is indispensable? A. republican.’ We have thought this over here- The leading Fillmore men here wish to act with us, and they want a name upon which they can bring up their rank and file- It will help us in Sangamon, where we shall be hard run, about members of the Legislature- Think it over, and if you can approve it, give it a start as above-

8 Fo r De t a i l e d De s c r i p t i o n s Vi s i t www .s e t h k a l l e r .n e t Historical Background To Lincoln, old political divisions that had pitted In 1854, opposition within the Whig Party to the Frémont’s Republicans against Fillmore’s Know- Kansas-Nebraska Act gave birth to the Republican Nothings in 1856 were insignificant in the face Party. Lincoln allied himself with the new movement, of the growing threat posed by the “Slave Power.” led by John C. Frémont, while Matheny stayed with Lincoln’s plan was to use published statements, Millard Fillmore’s Whigs. Though Matheny had political stumping, and the strategic choice of been the best man at Lincoln’s and Mary Todd’s candidates to help defeat pro-slavery forces. Matheny’s wedding in 1841, Lincoln opposed his old friend’s candidacy would help bring about the “union of 1856 Congressional bid. By then, the Whig Party had Fremont and Fillmore men” that Lincoln saw as collapsed. Matheny and others who would not join the “indispensible” to blocking the westward expansion Republicans backed Fillmore’s bid for the presidency of slavery. Acknowledging that Yates preferred a as leader of the American Party (the “Know-Nothings,” different candidate, Lincoln opts for expediency over an anti-Catholic, nativist movement). party loyalty: “Don’t you see? We must have someone who appeals to the Fillmore men.” A savvy strategist, Lincoln By 1858, the political landscape had shifted originally closed with a request that his plan be kept dramatically. Chief Justice Taney had ruled in “strictly confidential,” which he then crosses out. Still, March 1857, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, that a slave Matheny lost his 1858 Congressional bid to Democrat could not sue for his freedom since Negroes had “no Thomas L. Harris. rights which the white man was bound to respect.” The court declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise In Lincoln’s own race for the Senate that year, his unconstitutional, giving license to expand slavery coalition-building strategy would help the Republicans throughout the western territories. carry the popular vote against the far better known Stephen A. Douglas. Before the 17th Amendment, however, senators were chosen by the state legislatures, and Douglas handily won the seat.

The career of Richard Yates, the recipient of this letter, paralleled that of Lincoln. Born in Kentucky, Yates moved to Illinois, became an attorney, served in the state legislature and then the U.S. House of Representatives. Lincoln had worked hard for Yates in his Congressional campaign. Yates, in turn, would be a driving force behind Lincoln’s nomination at the 1860 Republican Convention. The tactical shrewdness so vividly displayed here would help Lincoln win the presidency.

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Autograph Letter Signed to Richard Yates, Springfield, Ill., March 9, 1858. 2 pp. 8 x 10”. #21945.99 $225,000

9 914.289.1776 . s k a l l e r @s e t h k a l l e r .n e t “Le t Us Ha v e Fa i t h Th a t Ri g h t Ma k e s Mi g h t ”

chuyler Colfax, U.S. representative S from Indiana and vice president under Ulysses S. Grant, pens a famous quote from Lincoln’s Cooper Institute speech. Archival framing with images of Lincoln and Colfax.

COLFAX, SCHUYLER. Autograph Quote Signed, from Lincoln’s Cooper Institute speech given on February 27, 1860. March 23, 1883. 5½ x 8½”. Framed 24½ x 15¾”. #20679 $1,500

Li n c o l n a t t h e Co o p e r In s t i t u t e

Ha r p e r ’s We e k l y c o v e r s t h e 1860 e l e c t i o n

oodcut prints include: Presidential Election W(Winslow Homer); Hon. Abraham Lincoln, Born in Kentucky, February 12, 1809; Plan of the City of Peking; The Last Stump Speech (cartoon-like); Reading the Returns of the Presidential Election; The Prince of Wales Astonishes His Parents on His Return Home.

Harper’s Weekly illustrated newspaper. November 10, 1860, complete issue, 16 pp. 11 x 15½”. $550

For more original Harper’s Weekly issues, see pages 40 and 41.

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A f i r s t e di t i o n o f t h e h is t o r i c d e b a t e s

n December 1859, the Ohio Republican State I Committee asked Lincoln if a record of his debates with Stephen Douglas was available for publication. Lincoln loaned his scrapbook, with instructions that Douglas’s speeches be taken from pro-Douglas papers to avoid any claim of bias. Caught off guard by the popularity of the Debates, the publisher ran his presses twenty-four hours a day and farmed out finished pages to binderies throughout the Midwest to keep up with the demand. In the end, the Debates ran through seven editions and sold more than 100,000 copies.

[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]. Book, Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois. Columbus, Ohio: Follett, Foster, and Co., 1860. First edition, first state, original cloth binding. 268 pp. 6¼ x 9½”. #21961 $3,000

Th e Re p u b l i c a n No m i n e e i n 1860

“A p o s e o f t h e h e a d s o e ss e n t i a l l y Li n c o l n i a n …”

hicago photographer Alexander Hesler took four portraits C of Lincoln on June 3, 1860. Lincoln’s law partner, William Herndon, said of this likeness: “There is the peculiar curve of the lower lip, the lone mole on the right cheek, and a pose of the head so essentially Lincolnian; no other artist has ever caught it.” George B. Ayres purchased Hesler’s original plates after the Civil War, and continued to print fine photographs until his death in 1895. In 1933 the plates were irreparably damaged when sent via mail to Washington, D.C.

[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM] HESLER, ALEXANDER. Sepia- toned Photograph, Springfield, Ill., [image taken June 3, 1860, this copy printed by Ayres ca. 1880s]. 6½ x 8½”. #21956 $3,500

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Li n c o l n ’s f u t u r e Se c r e t a r y o f Wa r f o r e s e e s s e c e ssi o n

t the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, A Edwin Stanton writes presciently to an abolitionist friend that entrenched sectional hostilities and rising passions over slavery have made compromise impossible. As he pens his letter, the Democratic National Convention in Charleston is on the verge of collapsing amid bitter factional disputes.

“...there seems just now to be much probability of your secession theory being realized... If it were a mere division of sentiments a new ‘Compromise’ would be the nostrum. But it is a contest of passion, ambitious interests, and all the Elements that in the past history of man have engendered civil dissensions beyond compromise or reconciliation.”

STANTON, EDWIN M. Autograph Letter Signed to Dr. Joseph P. Gazzam, Washington, D.C., April 29, 1860. 3 pp. 7¾ x 9¾”. #21307 $2,750

1860 El e c t i o n Ri b b o n

his scarce and delicate silk campaign ribbon from the election of 1860 proclaims Tsupport for the “Republican Candidates.” LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Campaign ribbon, 1860. 2½ x 6”. #21962 $3,500

Ca m p a i g n Bi o g r a p h y

n early Lincoln campaign biography based on A interviews with Lincoln associates in Springfield. SCRIPPS, JOHN LOCKE. Pamphlet, “Tribune Tracts No. 6. Life of Abraham Lincoln. Chapter 1, Early Life,” New York: Tribune, 1860. 32 pp. Original stitching. 6 x 9¼”. #20521 $950 12 Fo r De t a i l e d De s c r i p t i o n s Vi s i t www .s e t h k a l l e r .n e t Pa r a d e To r c h Us e d b y t h e Wi d e Awa k e s

Un i f o r m e d m a r c h i n g s o c i e t y r a l l i e d s u pp o r t f o r t h e 1860 Li n c o l n c a m p a i g n

n 19th-century America, political parties mobilized I their supporters to a degree not seen today. One of the best-known organizations was the Wide Awakes, a Republican marching society with chapters throughout the North. Wearing matching oil-cloth caps and capes, the Wide Awakes carried kerosene torches such as this one in nighttime parades to emphasize their vigilance against the Southern slavocracy’s assaults on liberty. The marchers created an aura of excitement and inevitability around Lincoln’s presidential campaign, and as one participant noted, “Those uniformed and marching companies were the precursors of the regiments which, carrying musket and bayonet instead of the torch, sprang into being six months (Harper’s, October 13, 1860. Showing The Wide Awakes later at Lincoln’s call.” March in New York, and five scenes of Central Park. $180. [LINCOLN ELECTION]. Double-swivel kerosene For additional Harper’s Weekly torch used exclusively by the pro-Lincoln marching newspapers, see pages 40-41.) club, the Wide Awakes, in various localities during the election of 1860. 55” tall with original, soft-wood pole, pierced at the bottom. #11883 $3,750

Bas e b all a n d Li n c o l n o n a n In d i a n Pe a c e Me d al

ndian Peace Medals were produced in the 18th and 19th centuries as I tokens of friendship for presentation to Native Americans. The Lincoln medal is one of the most desired. This bronze example weighs a half pound, and is a lovely specimen with deep mahogany toning. The obverse features a portrait of Lincoln. On the reverse, while one Indian brave is shown scalping another, a third plows a field. The most unusual aspect is the background, which features four white children playing a game of baseball. A batter, underhand pitcher, fielder and observer standing near home plate are visible, making this one of the earliest known figural baseball artifacts.

[U.S. MINT]. Peace Medal, engraved by S. Ellis, 1862. 3” dia. #21960 $1,350 13 914.289.1776 . s k a l l e r @s e t h k a l l e r .n e t Li n c o l n Su m m o n s Hi s Ca b i n e t t o Di s c u ss Em a n c i pat i o n

“Pl e a s e s u m m o n t h e Ca b i n e t t o m e e t m e h e r e a t 7 o’c l o c k t h is e v e n i n g ”

Th e b r e v i t y o f Li n c o l n ’s l e t t e r b e l i e s i t s f a r -r e a c h i n g i m p l i cat i o n s

n March 5, 1862, President Lincoln requests O that Secretary of State William Seward summon a meeting of his cabinet. The following day, the president presented a special message to Congress with his plan to offer to pay to end slavery.

Historical Background A draft of Lincoln’s message to Congress, preserved in the Library of Congress, contains revisions likely made with his Cabinet. Lincoln called for a Congressional resolution endorsing compensated emancipation and pledging federal support to states that adopted it. The president termed his measure “one of the most efficient means of self-preservation,” stating that “in my judgment, gradual, and not sudden emancipation, is better for all.” A plan to pay to end slavery, he stressed, would ensure that the border slave states would have nothing to gain by joining the Confederacy.

A week later, Lincoln wrote to Senator James McDougall, comparing the cost of paying to end slavery to the cost of the war. Lincoln estimated that buying the freedom of the 432,622 slaves in Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri and Washington, D.C. would amount to $173,048,800 — the cost of war for LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Autograph Letter Signed, 87 days. “Do you doubt,” Lincoln wrote, “that taking to Secretary of State William H. Seward, Washington, the initiatory steps on the part of those states and D.C., March 5, 1862. Signed at bottom by Seward, the District, would shorten the war more than eighty- with a note in an unidentified contemporary hand. seven days, and thus be an actual saving of expense?” 1 p. 4¾ x 7¼”. #12054 $180,000 The idea of compensated emancipation never took root. On July 22, Lincoln convened another meeting to announce that he was prepared to take an even more radical step: emancipation without compensation to slave owners. Lincoln was persuaded by his cabinet to wait for a Union victory before issuing the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.

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ppointment of Charles Kingsbury, Jr. (c.1837- A 1866) as assistant adjutant general of volunteers, with the rank of captain.

Kingsbury, of Ironton, Ohio, enrolled in Company C, 18th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in April, 1861. As a captain, he received Brigadier General William S. Rosecrans’s praise for his performance at the Battle of Rich Mountain. With this commission, he was assigned to the staff of Brigadier General John F. Reynolds, with whom he took part in the Siege of Yorktown, the Seven Days Battle near Richmond, and Gettysburg. After Reynolds was killed, Kingsbury served on General Philip H. Sheridan’s staff.

A very decorative item to display in your home or office, with a fine large “Abraham Lincoln” signature.

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM and STANTON, EDWIN M. Document Signed, March 11, 1862, on vellum. 1 p. 15¾ x 19½”. #1918 $9,500

Cas t f r o m t h e USS Cu m b e r la n d

he USS Cumberland was sunk by the ironclad CSS Virginia (the TMerrimac) in the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 8, 1862. This bust, composed of metal recovered from the ship, was cast shortly after the war.

[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]. Cast bronze bas-relief profile. 15 x 10” mounted to a 21 x 17” velvet-covered, oval, wooden plaque. #21401 $4,500

Fi r s t Re a d i n g o f t h e Em a n c i pat i o n Pr o c la m a t i o n

[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]. Print, “The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet,” by A.H. Ritchie from Francis Bicknell Carpenter’s 1864 painting at the White House. 1866. 36½ x 25½”. #3967 $1,750

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Li n c o l n p r o m o t e s Me x i c a n commission Lincoln promoted him to brigadier Wa r h e r o & f u t u r e general of volunteers. In the Northern Virginia s u p e r i n t e n d e n t o f We s t Po i n t Campaign of August 1862, he fought at Cedar Mountain and Thoroughfare Gap before an injury in n this 1862 military commission, the Battle of Second Manassas left him incapacitated I Zealous Bates Tower, who was and unfit for further field service. highly decorated for his service during the Mexican War, was appointed In July 1864 Tower was appointed superintendent of brigadier general of volunteers by Lincoln. Soon the U.S. Military Academy. In September he was sent after, he was gravely wounded in the Battle of Second to strengthen the defenses of Nashville, playing a key Manassas while leading a brigade under Brigadier role in the defeat of General John Bell Hood’s Army General James B. Ricketts. of Tennessee.

“...That reposing special trust and confidence LINCOLN, in the patriotism, valor, fidelity, and abilities of ABRAHAM Zealous B. Tower, I have nominated, and by and and STANTON, with the advice and consent of the Senate, do EDWIN M. appoint him Brigadier General of Volunteers.” Document Signed, June 12, 1862, on Historical Background vellum. 15¾ x 19½”. Zealous Bates Tower graduated from West Point at #1097 $12,000 the top of his class in 1841. During the Mexican War he quickly won three brevets for gallantry while serving on the staff of General Winfield Scott. At the start of the Civil War, he served as chief engineer for the defenses of Fort Pickens, Florida. With this

1862 Wa r Or d e r s In c l u d i n g Pr e l i m i n a ry Em a n c i pat i o n

compilation of orders issued or forwarded by the adjutant general A in 1862. Includes General Order 139, September 24, 1862, publishing President Lincoln’s Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.

“I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States... hereby proclaim and declare that ... the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States... That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all slave States [which] may voluntarily adopt, immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery within their respective limits...” (G.O. #139)

[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM] Book, General Orders Affecting the Volunteer Force.... Washington, D.C., 1863. 158 pp. Signed by Albert Harrison Hoyt, paymaster, U.S. Army. 5 x 7½”. #21395 $1,250

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Si g n e d b y Li n c o l n t o a id t h e t r o o ps

“All persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free …”

Historical Background The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863, reveals the major themes of the Civil War: slavery as the central issue, the courting of border states, and the constitutional and popular constraints that made earlier emancipation impossible. In addition to its moral weight, the Proclamation’s tangible aid to the Union cause was decisive. It deprived the Confederacy of essential labor, encouraged the enlistment of black soldiers in the Union army, and prevented Europe from supporting the Confederacy.

In 1864, 48 copies of the Proclamation were prepared by prominent abolitionists George Boker and Charles Leland. The documents were signed by Lincoln and sold at the Philadelphia Sanitary Fair to raise money for sick and wounded troops.

Some 24 Lincoln signed Leland-Boker editions are known to survive, mostly in museum collections.

Reacting to the proclamation, Frederick Douglass congratulated President Lincoln on “what may be called the greatest event of our nation’s history.” Se t h Ka l l e r h a s h a d t h e p r i v i l e g e LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Document Signed, o f b u y i n g o r s e l l i n g a l l si x Li n c o l n -si g n e d [June, 1864], co-signed by Secretary of State c o pi e s o f t h e Em a n c ipat i o n Pr o c l a m a t i o n William H. Seward, and authenticated by John t h a t h a v e c o m e o n t h e m a r k e t i n t h e G. Nicolay as private secretary to the president. l a s t 40-p l u s y e a r s . Courtesy of a Private Collection - Not for sale Fo r m o r e h is t o r i ca l b a c k g r o u n d , s e e www .s e t h k a l l e r .n e t /f r e e d o m d o c u m e n t s 17 914.289.1776 . s k a l l e r @s e t h k a l l e r .n e t Ed i t i n g Hi s Le t t e r Te ll i n g McCl e lla n t o Fi g h t

“If y o u s h o u l d p u b l is h t h e On January 16, 1863, during a Court of Inquiry a t t a c h e d l e t t e r , p l e a s e m a k e t h e investigating McClellan, the Evening Star published c o r r e c t i o n s i n di c a t e d ” Lincoln’s letter. Lincoln was not satisfied with their version. He sent this note to his favorite paper, the n an 1862 letter, Lincoln famously urged Major Washington Chronicle, to correct the errors. John W. I General McClellan to fight: “It is indispensible to you Forney, the paper’s publisher, was called “Lincoln’s that you strike a blow.” When a newspaper published dog” for his closeness to the administration. The the letter the following year, Lincoln, unhappy with Chronicle, which was widely read by the soldiers of the text, asked a friendly paper to run a corrected the Army of the Potomac, published “a corrected and version. official copy” of Lincoln’s letter the next day.

Historical Background A year later, in the first wartime election, McClellan Major General George B. McClellan was widely was expected by many to unseat Lincoln. But despite heralded for building the Army of the Potomac into the horrific casualties they’d suffered and their an impressive fighting force. But Lincoln became abiding love for “Little Mac,” an astounding 70% of frustrated with McClellan’s reluctance to use his the troops voted for Lincoln. army to full advantage. In the midst of McClellan’s unsuccessful 1862 campaign to take Richmond, LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Autograph Letter Signed to Lincoln pleaded with him to attack. “The country will the editors of the Washington Chronicle, Washington, not fail to note… that the present hesitation to move upon D.C., January 16, 1863. 1 p. 7¾ x 4¼”. The an entrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated,” original enclosure is no longer present, but we Lincoln wrote. “You must act.” According to historian include an 1864 presidential campaign printing James M. McPherson, “It was a superb letter, one of of Lincoln’s April 9, 1862 letter to McClellan. Lincoln’s best. But McClellan ignored it.” 1 p. 7¾ x 10”. #10987 $27,500

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Te l l i n g a dis a pp o i n t e d Me x i c a n Wa r to discuss the matter with Lincoln. Diven’s visit h e r o w h y h e w a s n ’t p r o m o t e d prompted this response.

en. Ward B. Burnett had served with distinction Lincoln’s letter is accompanied by a letter from G during the Mexican War, but was denied a Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. On June 20, brigadier generalship in the Union army. Burnett 1863, Stanton refuses a request from the mayor of sought an explanation from Lincoln. Making clear New York that “such power be given to General Ward B. he bore no malice toward Burnett, Lincoln responds, Burnett, to muster men into the United States service.” “The nomination fell, with many others, because the number nominated exceeded the law.” Burnett never received the commission he sought. Nevertheless, he played a significant role during the Complete Transcript New York City Draft Riots in July 1863. Near Wall “Washington, March 7, 1863 Street, Burnett organized and swore in volunteer General Ward B. Burnett forces to fend off the rioters. According to William My dear sir. O. Stoddard, an aide to Lincoln who happened to Col. Diven has just been with me seeking to be in New York at the time, Burnett and his men remove a wrong impression which he supposes “kept company with a wide-mouthed mountain I might have of you, springing from a report he howitzer” and protected the U.S. Treasury and the had once made in the New York Senate, as I Customs House. The general appeared “very cool, understood him. I told him, as I now tell you, and determined but a little bloodthirsty.” that I did not remember to have ever heard of the report, or any thing against you. LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Autograph Letter Signed, As I remember, you were nominated last year, to General Ward Burnett, Washington, D.C., March and the nomination fell, with many others, 7, 1863. 6¾ x 10½”. With: Edwin M. Stanton. because the number nominated exceeded the law. Letter Signed, to New York Mayor George Opdyke, I call to mind no reason why you have not been Washington, D.C., June 20, 1863. 8 x 10”. re-nominated, except that you have not been in #21369 $34,000 active service, while others more than sufficient to take all the places have been. Yours truly, A. Lincoln”

Historical Background A West Point graduate, Burnett had served with distinction under Winfield Scott. He was seriously wounded at Churubusco, and was awarded a gold medal by his regiment. After the Mexican War, Burnett worked as a civil engineer at the Brooklyn and Philadelphia navy yards, and served as U.S. surveyor general in Kansas and Nebraska. When his Civil War nomination for brigadier general was rejected, he asked Col. Alexander S. Diven, a former New York state senator and Republican congressman,

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On e o f a h a n d f u l o f s u r v i v i n g further collision,” rather than acting to prevent their b a t t l e f i e l d c o pi e s o f t h e v i c t o r y crossing and to destroy the Confederate army. m e ss a g e t h a t i n f u r i at e d Li n c o l n While Lincoln congratulated the Army of the Potomac hile both armies still occupy the field, General for its hard-fought victory, he drafted a letter lecturing WMeade congratulates his soldiers on their Meade about “the magnitude of the misfortune “glorious” victory at Gettysburg. involved in Lee’s escape… [T]o have closed upon him would, in connection with our other late successes, Partial Transcript have ended the war.” Although Lincoln never sent the “The Commanding General, in behalf of the letter, Meade was aware of his displeasure and offered country, thanks the Army of the Potomac for the to resign. Lincoln declined the offer. glorious result of the recent operation. An enemy superior in numbers and flushed MEADE, GEORGE. Broadside, “Head Quarters Army with the pride of a successful invasion, attempted of the Potomac,” Gettysburg, Pa., printed on the field, to overcome and destroy this Army. Utterly July 4, 1863. 5½ x 6”. #20792 $27,500 baffled and defeated, he has now withdrawn from the contest. The privations and fatigue the Army has endured, and the heroic courage and gallantry it has displayed will be matters of history to be ever remembered. Our task is not yet accomplished, and the Commanding General looks to the Army for greater efforts to drive from our soil every vestige of the presence of the invader.”

Historical Background The Battle of Gettysburg, fought on July 1-3, 1863, caused a staggering number of casualties: 23,000 Union, 28,000 Confederate. At 4:15 p.m. on July 4th, with the battlefield still strewn with the dead and wounded, Meade issued General Orders No. 68 commending his victorious troops. He had good reason to give thanks: after the failures of four previous commanders and thirteen months of stalemate and defeat, the Army of the Potomac had finally won a decisive victory To s e e over Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. t h is r a r e m a p o f t h e Ba t t l e But a part of Meade’s message infuriated o f Ge t t y s b u r g , Lincoln. Attuned as always to the power of a n d r e l a t e d words, Lincoln pointed out to General Halleck i t e m s a sk that all of America, not just the North, was f o r o u r still “our soil.” Lincoln was further disgusted Ci v i l Wa r by Meade’s reluctance to pursue Lee. Lincoln Ca t a l o g . rightly perceived that Meade wanted “to get the enemy across the river again without a 20 Fo r De t a i l e d De s c r i p t i o n s Vi s i t www .s e t h k a l l e r .n e t Th e Ge t t y s b u r g Ad d r e ss – Fr o n t Pag e Ne ws

A s c a r c e f i r s t d a y o f p r i n t i n g iss u e GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. Newspaper, The New York Times, November 20, 1863. 8 pp. (Gettysburg incoln’s speech, delivered at the Gettysburg Address on p. 1, col. 3.) 15¼ x 20¾”. L National Cemetery on November 19, 1863, has #21008 $9,500 endured as a supreme distillation of American values. This printing – from November 20, the first day the text was published anywhere – contains Lincoln’s timeless speech on page one. This original issue also has lengthy reports on the other proceedings of the ceremony, including the hour and a half speech of Edward Everett of Massachusetts.

Four newspaper copyists were at work during the event. Joseph L. Gilbert of the Associated Press “actually consulted Lincoln’s delivery text briefly after the ceremony, which makes his version more authoritative for some scholars” (Gary Wills). The New York Times received Gilbert’s report by telegraph, and published it here the next day. There is no definitive version of the Address, but “variations of [the AP] version reached more Americans in 1863 than any other” (Gabor Boritt, The Gettysburg Gospel). Later, when Lincoln penned copies of his speech, he is said to have referred to Gilbert’s AP report.

Th e Ge t t y s b u r g Ad d r e ss – Fi r s t Da y , w i t h Ma p

nother rare first day of publication A newspaper. Here, the Gettysburg Address is on page 10. This paper includes Edward Everett’s entire speech, and a report on the ceremonies. It also contains a large map of the Gettysburg battlefield, The American Necropolis (shown at left).

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. Newspaper, The New York Herald, November 20, 1863. 12 pp. 15¾ x 22¼”. #30001.11 $9,500

Th e Ge t t y s b u r g Ad d r e ss

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. Printed Card, The President’s Dedication Address at Gettysburg, New York: Miller & Matthews [ca. 1863-64]. 3½ x 5½ ”. #21986.02 $1,800 (Shown at right) 21 914.289.1776 . s k a l l e r @s e t h k a l l e r .n e t Ma r y Li n c o l n a n d t h e Pr e s i d e n t As k a Fa v o r

peaking for her husband, the first lady asks U.S. been driving Mrs. Lincoln when, by S Treasurer Francis Spinner to give a trusted accident or sabotage, her carriage employee the job of messenger. completely fell apart. Though the first lady suffered a head injury, she “General Spinner maintained her regard for Forbes. will much oblige the President & As Lincoln’s personal valet, Forbes Mrs. Lincoln by reportedly stopped John Wilkes giving the situation Booth at Ford’s Theatre on the night of messenger to of the assassination. After seeing the famous actor’s Charles [Forbes] pass, however, Forbes let Booth into the president’s box. the bearer a most worthy man...” LINCOLN, MARY TODD. Autograph Letter Signed in the third person (“Mrs. Lincoln”), to General Francis Historic Background E. Spinner, “Executive Mansion,” January 16, 1864. Six months earlier, With Spinner’s autograph docketing. 1 p. 4½ x 6¾”. White House footman #21927 $9,000 Charles Forbes had

Sh a k e s p e a r e ’s Wo r k s , In s c r i b e d b y Ma r y To d d Li n c o l n

New Year’s gift of Lincoln’s favorite author from A his grieving widow. The recipient, Presbyterian minister David Swing of Chicago, was a longtime friend of the Lincolns.

Inscription “Presented to Professor Swing with kindest regards & best wishes of his sincere friend, Mrs. A. Lincoln, Chicago, Ill. January 1st 1874”.

Historical Background he Swing family gave great comfort to the widowed TMary Lincoln, particularly after the death of her son Tad in 1871. Three months after receiving this gift, Swing was tried by the Presbytery of Chicago for heresy. He was acquitted, but left to establish the Central Church, which became the largest in Chicago.

LINCOLN, MARY TODD. Signed Book, The Works of William Shakespeare, edited by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke (London: 1869), four volumes, inscribed in volume I. 5¼ x 8½”. #21928 $12,500 22 Fo r De t a i l e d De s c r i p t i o n s Vi s i t www .s e t h k a l l e r .n e t Pa r d o n i n g a Mu r d e r o u s Mu t i n e e r

Wa s Li n c o l n t o o m e r c i f u l ? shooting at the officers. The ship’s steward was killed. The ringleaders, including Ryder, were given seven- incoln pardons Alfred Ryder, a prisoner in New year prison terms. On sentencing, the judge called the L York’s Sing Sing prison. Ryder promptly enlisted incident “one of the most disgraceful and outrageous in the Union navy, only to desert a year after the war [affrays] that has happened in the harbor of New- ended. York.” Ryder served less than four years of his sentence before being pardoned. “...Alfred Ryder was convicted of Mutiny and sentenced to imprisonment for seven years... Lincoln’s generosity with pardons was well known. He his conduct in confinement has been uniformly denied every application to execute sentries for sleeping exemplary... Now, therefore, be it known that at their posts. In one 1864 order alone, he revoked I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United 60 death sentences. Attorney General Bates lamented States... do hereby grant unto him... a full and that “in nine cases out of ten,” a woman’s tears were unconditional pardon...” “sure to prevail in winning clemency.” History has tended to sympathize with Lincoln’s compassion, but Historical Background his generals complained that it undermined discipline On May 23, 1860 a revolt broke out on board the ship and encouraged desertion. Wm. F. Storer off Governors Island, New York. Several men demanded that the captain open the forecastle, LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Document Signed, where they likely stashed liquor. “I’ll see you d—d countersigned by Secretary of State William H. arse, you old gray-headed son of a b—h,” Ryder cursed Seward, Washington, D.C., May 10, 1864. 2 pp. the captain. A melee ensued with Ryder and others 10¾ x 16¾”. #13446 $16,000

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Th e p r e sid e n t c a l l s o n Historical Background l o y a l c i t iz e n s t o i m p l o r e t h e Following the examples of presidents Washington, “Su p r e m e Ru l e r o f t h e Wo r l d n o t Adams, and Madison, Lincoln issued several t o d e s t r o y u s a s a p e o p l e ” proclamations of prayer or thanksgiving. His proclamation of October 3, 1863 established the ith the outcome of the war still far from clear, precedent of the fourth Thursday of every November Wthis broadside announces to the people of as a national day of thanksgiving. Congress must have Massachusetts Lincoln’s proclamation of a national worried that this was not sufficient. They could not day of prayer. Eight weeks prior, at Cold Harbor, know then that Cold Harbor would be Lee’s last major Grant had lost some 7,000 Union troops in the span victory. On July 2, 1864, a joint resolution requested of 20 minutes. The siege of Petersburg was just six that Lincoln call for an additional day of “national weeks old. humiliation and prayer.” Lincoln set the first Thursday in August 1864 as a day to pray for a speedy end to “[Calling on] all loyal and law-abiding people, the war. It would be another eight months before that to convene at their usual places of worship, or prayer was answered. wherever they may be, to confess and to repent of their manifold sins; to implore the compassion [LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]. Broadside, “A Proclamation and forgiveness of the Almighty, that, if consistent for a Day of Humiliation and Prayer,” July 7, 1864, with his will, the existing rebellion may be speedily printed under a forwarding Proclamation by Governor suppressed, and the supremacy of the Constitution John Andrew of Massachusetts, July 28, 1864. 1 p. and the laws of the United States may be Approximately 18½ x 28¼”. #21427 $4,750 established throughout all the states; to implore Him, as the Supreme Ruler of the World, not to destroy us as a people, nor suffer us to be destroyed … to implore Him to grant our armed defenders and the masses of the people that courage, power of resistance, and endurance necessary to secure that result…”

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A Li n c o l n -si g n e d w h a l i n g s h ip s e a some protection to a vessel in foreign waters, though l e t t e r - a s m u c h a s 100 t i m e s s c a r c e r they were of no help against Confederate raiders. The t h a n a Ci v i l Wa r m i l i ta ry c o m m issi o n owners of the Almira had already lost one vessel to the feared Confederate raider Alabama. In 1865 the CSS resident Lincoln gives permission for the whaler Shenandoah destroyed 20 of the 58 Yankee whalers in PAlmira to sail to the North Pacific. the Bering Sea, most after Lee’s surrender. “...permission is hereby given to Abraham Osborn The 362-ton Almira, commanded by a member of the Jr master or commander of the Ship called Almira Osborn shipping family of Martha’s Vineyard, did ... lying at present in the port of Edgartown bound return from her four-year voyage to the North Pacific, for Pacific Ocean laden and outfitted with Casks, in October 1868. She brought back 1,310 barrels of Provisions, Ship’s Stores, and Whaling Utensils whale oil, having already sent home 1,845 barrels of for a Whaling voyage... to depart and proceed.” sperm oil and 70,000 pounds of whale bone. In 1871, after 49 years of plying the world’s oceans, the Almira Historical Background was stove by ice and lost in the Arctic. The whaling business, hazardous in the best of times, was beset by the threat of Confederate attacks during LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Document Signed, co-signed the Civil War. As a result, the whale-rich waters of by Secretary of State William H. Seward, August 8, the Bering Sea between Siberia and Alaska became 1864. In French, Spanish, English and Dutch. 1 p. a haven for whalers avoiding American waters. Sea 21½ x 16¾”. #4325 $24,000 letters such as this offered proof of nationality and

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his 1864 election paperback’s question-and- [LINCOLN, Abraham]. Book, Tanswer “catechism” portrays Abraham Lincoln The Lincoln Catechism – Wherein The as a demagogue oblivious to the will of the people. Eccentricities & Beauties of Despotism The caricature of a demonic Negro on the front are Fully Set Forth. A Guide to the cover says it all. Presidential Election of 1864, New York, J.F. Weeks, 1864. 48 pp. Lacking blank rear cover. #21959 $1,200 Ur g i n g Frém o n t t o Ru n Aga i n s t Li n c o l n

Wi t h t h e w a r g o i n g b a d l y , t h e 1864 rederick A. Aiken, former Secretary of the e l e c t i o n is n o s h o o -i n f o r t h e i n c u m b e n t FDemocratic National Convention, applauds General John C. Frémont’s nomination by the “[Y]our brave, truthful and Radical Republicans. He suggests that Frémont will powerful letter of acceptance have the blessing of the Democrats if he goes up [has] completely disarmed against Lincoln for the Republican nomination. all bitter and personal Aiken went on to serve (unsuccessfully) as defense hostility at the hands of attorney for Lincoln assassination conspirator Mary the democratic party... [We] Surratt. certainly shall not find time to wage war against you.… AIKEN, FREDERICK A. Autograph Letter Signed, to The democrats are willing John C. Frémont, Washington, D.C., June 12, 1864. to help you all they can as 2 pp. 7¾ x 9¾”. #20715 $3,200 against Mr. Lincoln...”

Li n c o l n v s . McCl e lla n – 1864 Ca m p a i g n Pla t f o r m s

Co u r t i n g v o t e s , i n c l u di n g i m m i g r a n t s ’ the Constitution, to be made by the people in conformity with its provisions, as shall terminate incoln reelection campaign broadsides with the and forever prohibit the existence of Slavery within L Republican (Lincoln-Johnson) and Democratic the limits of the jurisdiction of the United States.” (McClellan-Pendleton) platforms, followed by a (Republican Platform) side-by-side analysis of “Points of Difference.” Printed separately in English and German separately. [LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]. Matching pair of Broadsides, “as Slavery was the cause, and now constitutes the [1864], “The Platforms,” in strength, of this rebellion... justice and the national English. 9½ x 12”. “Die safety demand its utter and complete extirpation Platformen,” in German. from the soil of the republic; and that we uphold 9¾ x 11¾”. 2 pp. total. and maintain the acts and proclamations by #21926.02-03 $2,250 which the Government, in its own defense, has aimed a death-blow at this gigantic evil. We are in favor, furthermore, of such an amendment to 26 Fo r De t a i l e d De s c r i p t i o n s Vi s i t www .s e t h k a l l e r .n e t De n y i n g Calls f o r a Di c t a t o r t o Re p la c e Li n c o l n

Fo r m e r Un i o n g e n e r a l s r e b u t Historical Background t h e c l a i m t h a t t h e y c r i t i c iz e d Sickles had been told that the “Dictator” allegation t h e i r c o m m a n d e r i n c h i e f appeared in General John A. Logan’s memoir, The Volunteer Soldier of America (1887). Logan, who served eneral Daniel Sickles addresses charges that he under Grant during the war, was a U.S. Congressman, G called for Lincoln’s overthrow. Writing to and a vice presidential nominee in 1884. General Adam Badeau, the supposed source of the accusation, Sickles asks for his recollection of the Daniel Sickles had already been involved in scandals, incident. Badeau’s response is included. the most famous of which occurred in 1859 when he shot his wife’s lover, district attorney of Washington, The allegation: “When Badeau joined Grant in D.C. and son of Francis Scott Key, near the White 1864 he reported to the staff… [that] Sickles had House. Sickles was the first man in the United States said in substance that Lincoln was not pushing acquitted of murder by reason of temporary insanity. the war with the proper Energy & that the time would come soon when he would have to be Adam Badeau served as military secretary to U.S. deposed and a Dictator put in his stead.” Grant during the war. He retired a brevet brigadier general, and went on to write a biography of Grant. Sickles’s request: “Do you remember anything of such a conversation with me? I do not.... In SICKLES, DANIEL. Autograph Letter Signed, to ‘64 I was strongly advocating the renomination Gen. Adam Badeau, August 26, 1887. 2 pp. 8 x 10”. & reelection of Abraham Lincoln. My relations With: BADEAU, ADAM. Autograph Letter Signed with him were intimate and confidential during (Badeau’s retained copy), to Gen. Daniel Sickles, that year. I made speeches for him in New York, August 29, 1887. 2 pp. 8 x 10”. #20340 $2,800 Chicago, Detroit & Elsewhere… claiming that his reelection would do as much as a Successful Campaign in putting down the rebellion because it would be a declaration of the people of the North to prosecute the war... I never heard anything in the Army about a Dictator....”

Badeau’s response: “I have not seen General Logan’s book, but I am very sure that if this quotation is literal, his memory or that of his informant was greatly at fault. I never was at your head quarters during the war, and I never heard you criticize Mr Lincoln unfavorably. I never had any conversation with you in which you or (Sickles to Badeau) any one else discussed the possibility or desirability of a dictatorship....” (Badeau to Sickles) 27 914.289.1776 . s k a l l e r @s e t h k a l l e r .n e t “We c a n n o t h a v e f r e e Go v e r n m e n t w i t h o u t e l e c t i o n s ”

Li n c o l n ’s 1864 v i c t o r y sp e e c h to the Union and most opposed to treason, can receive most of the people’s votes... hree days after Lincoln’s reelection, The New York Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, TTimes reports the text of his victory speech and the patriotic men, are better than gold...may not all cheers of the jubilant crowd on the White House lawn having a common interest reunite in a common below. Lincoln’s four-page manuscript for this speech effort to save the common country....” sold at Christie’s on February 12, 2009 for $3,442,500, a record price for an American manuscript. [LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]. Newspaper, The New York Times, November 11, 1864, Vol. XIV, No. 4098. Report “It has long been a grave question whether on page 1, columns 3 & 4: “Congratulating the President. / any Government not too strong for the liberties of A Serenade by the Clubs, and a Speech by Mr. Lincoln.” 8 pp. the people can be strong enough to maintain its 15½ x 21”. #30001.12 $344.25 own existence in great emergencies... We cannot have free Government without elections, and if the rebellion could force us to forego or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us... Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be revenged... But the election, along with its incidental and undesirable strife, has done good too. It has demonstrated that a people’s government can sustain a national election in the midst of a great civil war... It shows also how sound and how strong we still are. It shows that... he who is most devoted

Th e Co n g r e ss t h a t Pass e d t h e Th i r t e e n t h Am e n d m e n t

scarce compilation of the work of the second Book, Acts and Resolutions A session of the 38th Congress, published only a of the Second Session of the month after the session ended. The Thirteenth Thirty-Eighth Congress, begun Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing slavery and on Monday, December 5, involuntary servitude, passed on January 31, 1865, is on 1864, and ended on Saturday, page 168. Other acts include appropriations, taxation, March 4, 1865, Washington, construction of roads and railroads, management of [D.C.], 1865. 203 pp. American Indian affairs, and war measures. 5¾ x 8¾”. #20249 $1,750

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“Ne i t h e r Sl a v e r y n o r i n v o l u n t a r y s e r v i t u d e ... s h a l l e x is t wi t h i n t h e Un i t e d St a t e s …”

elieving slavery to be morally wrong, B Lincoln had championed against it for most of his political career. However, he recognized that the president did not possess the Constitutional authority to outlaw the institution, except, perhaps, as a matter of military necessity. Therefore, he carefully crafted the Emancipation Proclamation to affect only those states still in rebellion as of January 1, 1863.

The president then began to push for an amendment that would forever abolish slavery. The amendment was passed by the necessary two-thirds vote in the Senate on April 8, 1864. Two months later, however, it was defeated in the House of Representatives. Lincoln then made abolition a central plank of the Republican platform. In the hard fought 1864 reelection campaign, Republicans won enough seats to guarantee passage of the amendment. Not content to wait until the new Congress met in March, supporters brought the measure to another vote in the House on January 31, 1865. This time, with heavy presidential arm-twisting, the LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. The Thirteenth same Congress that had rejected it now passed it, 119 Amendment. Document Signed, co-signed by to 56, with 8 abstentions. Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax, and members of the House Lincoln approved and signed the original on February and Senate, Washington, D.C., February 1, 1865. 1, 1865. He, the Vice President, the Speaker of the Courtesy of a Private Collection - Not for sale House, and various Congressmen then signed manuscript copies as memorials. But on February 7, Fo r m o r e h is t o r i ca l b a c k g r o u n d , s e e the Senate resolved that the president’s signature on an www .s e t h k a l l e r .n e t /f r e e d o m d o c u m e n t s amendment was “unnecessary,” and withheld “from the House... the message of the President informing Se t h Ka l l e r h a s h a d t h e p r i v i l e g e the Senate that he had... signed.” Thus, in addition o f h a n d l i n g a l l f i v e o f t h e to 15 known manuscript copies signed by Lincoln, Li n c o l n -si g n e d c o pi e s o f t h e several exist without his signature. Th i r t e e n t h Am e n d m e n t t h a t h a v e s o l d i n t h e l a s t 48 y e a r s .

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Li n c o l n ’s m e ss a g e , p r e s e r v e d i n t h is u n i q u e l e a f , is t h a t t h e Un i o n wi l l wi n t h e w a r , a n d Am e r i c a wi l l e m e r g e a s t r o n g e r n a t i o n

his manuscript leaf, in Lincoln’s hand, contains Historical Background Tthe heart and soul of his 1864 State of the Lincoln began writing his Annual Message to Congress Union address: “we are not exhausted…we are gaining (now referred to as the State of the Union address) strength... We have more men now than we had when the just a week after his reelection on November 8, 1864. war began.” Despite terrible losses, Lincoln proclaims He read a draft to his cabinet on November 25, and that the Union will triumph. Four months later, Lee on December 3 reviewed the final version. He then surrendered at Appomattox. Less than a week after sent the final manuscript, from which this page came, that, Lincoln was felled by an assassin’s bullet. to the public printer. In a tradition that began with Thomas Jefferson and continued until Woodrow Complete Transcript Wilson, Lincoln submitted the address to Congress “To this again should be added the number of all on paper, rather than in person. soldiers in the field from Massachusetts, Rhode- Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Indiana, Illinois Our leaf, page 44, starts by discussing the number and California, who, by the laws of those states of soldiers who had voted in the recent presidential could not vote away from their homes, and which election. The troops, Lincoln noted on page 43 of number can not be less than [90,000.] Nor yet his manuscript, were the “most important branch of is this all. The number in organized territories national resources.” In the midst of horrific battles and is tripple [sic] now what it was four years ago; tremendous loss of life, 70 percent of Union soldiers while thousands, white and black, join us, as the voted for Lincoln – soundly rejecting the message of national arms press back the insurgent lines. So defeat offered by candidate George McClellan. much is shown, affirmatively, and negatively, by the election. It is not material * [Lincoln wrote That Lincoln could point to the army, “white and the text between the asterisks separately, pasting black,” was another triumph. Immediately after the it in here before finishing his thought.] to Emancipation Proclamation, the Union army began enquire how the increase has been produced; or to accepting African-American recruits. By the end of show that it would have been greater but for the the war, more than 100,000 had served, providing a war, which is probably true. The important fact crucial boost to the Union cause. remains demonstrated, that we have more men now than we had when the war began; that we The final words on this page capture the essence are not exhausted, nor in process of exhaustion; of the American spirit: gritty resolve in the face of that we are gaining strength, and may, if need conflict, growth in the face of adversity. The Union, be, maintain the contest indefinitely.* This as to Lincoln states, can “maintain the contest indefinitely… men. Material resources are now more complete, Material resources are now more complete, and abundant and abundant than ever.” than ever.” Despite four years of Civil War, America was still a nation of hope and abundance.

Lincoln’s complete Annual Message addressed everything from foreign affairs (“reasonably satisfactory”); to the nation’s new national banking system (“successfully administered”); admission of Nevada as a state; and establishment of loyal 30 Fo r De t a i l e d De s c r i p t i o n s Vi s i t www .s e t h k a l l e r .n e t governments in Arkansas and Louisiana. A key topic of this Annual Message was the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery. Earlier in 1864, the amendment had been approved by the Senate but rejected by the House. Lincoln urged Congress to reconsider. “I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation... In stating a single condition of peace I mean simply to say that the war will cease on the part of the Government whenever it shall have ceased on the part of those who began it.” Due to Lincoln’s unremitting efforts, Congress soon took up the amendment again; it passed on January 31, 1865.

Leaves from this Message John D. Defrees, U.S. superintendent of public printing at the time, preserved a few leaves of Lincoln’s original 48-page manuscript, and distributed them to family and friends. This particular leaf went to Commissioner of Indian Affairs William P. Dole. Only eleven portions of eight pages are known to exist. Six portions are now held by four institutions: the Library of Congress; the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library; the Gilder Lehrman Collection on deposit at the New-York Historical Society; and the Detroit Public Library.

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Autograph Manuscript [Washington, D.C., ca. December 3, 1864]. A complete leaf, page 44, from Lincoln’s penned manuscript of his last State of the Union Address, delivered to Congress on December 6, 1864. 8¼ x 13¾”. #21995 Price on request 31 914.289.1776 . s k a l l e r @s e t h k a l l e r .n e t Re c o r d i n g Le e ’s Su r r e n d e r , Li n c o l n ’s Assass i n a t i o n , a n d Da v i s ’s Ca p t u r e i n Wo m e n ’s Cl o t h e s

Fr o m “Th e g r e a t e s t t i m e s e v e r Historical Background k n o w n ” t o “Th e s a dd e s t d a y I e v e r The fabric of everyday life is woven into the great s a w ,” a n d h o m e i n t i m e f o r b a s e b a l l events of the nation – bells ring, the old flag waves, General Meade’s hand is clasped, everybody’s drunk, ostonian R.E. Merrill’s diary chronicles major a baseball game is cheered…. Before that fateful shot B events of 1865. was fired, were the Lincolns enjoying Laura Keene in Our American Cousin as much as Merrill had three Selected Excerpts weeks earlier? February: “News of the passage of the Slavery Amendment…the guns are firing, and bells MERRILL, R.E. Autograph Manuscript Signed, Diary, ringing…Charleston occupied by our troops and Boston, Mass., 1865. 3 x 4¾”. 176 pp. the veritable old flag again waves over Sumter” #21987 $4,500

March: “Lincoln inaugurated… took tea and retd. with the Froths to Boston Theater ‘American Cousin’ - Laura Keene - Like very much”

April: “Hard fighting followed by the great news that Richmond had fallen.... Great news Lee surrendered his army to Grant yesterday… The greatest times ever known…. Almost every body drunk last night… It is great and glorious...” April 15: “Such terrible news! President Lincoln murdered!! The saddest day I ever saw…Mr. Lincolns remains left Washington… News of the death of Booth… Johnson surrendered in same terms as Lee - Grant put things right”

May: “Reward of $100,000 offered for Jeff Davis and less amts for other conspirators… Trial of conspirators at Washington… News of capture of Jeff Davis and family in Virginia… rejoicing over Jeff’s capture in Woman’s cloths... Trial at (Harper’s, May 27, Washington going on... Jeff Davis and party at 1865. The capture Fortress Monroe” of Jefferson Davis, included with diary. July: “The conspirators to be hanged at Washington, See page 40 for additional Harper’s) four in number… Saw and shook hands with Genl Meade... Grant at F Hall - Saw him at corner of Court and WashingtonGrant went to Portland”

October: “Home at 1 to see baseball match”

32 Fo r De t a i l e d De s c r i p t i o n s Vi s i t www .s e t h k a l l e r .n e t Dr. Ez r a Ab b o t t Re c o u n t s Li n c o l n ’s Assass i n a t i o n

“Tenderly raising his inanimate form, the writer and five others carried him…”

n eyewitness writes in lurid detail about the A histrionics of the assassin, his first sight of the wounded president, and the bedside vigil as Lincoln lay dying.

Abbott “saw the gleam of the knife as [Booth] struck Major Rathbone,” and, jumping down from the president’s box to the stage, to face the audience “with bloody hand above his head... waved a gory, glistening blade and shouted Sic semper tyrannis! Now the south are avenged.’” Once Abbott realized what had happened, he “ran down a flight of stairs round to the President’s box. There upon the floor, his head tenderly supported in the lap of... Laura Keene... lay the Wilkes Booth’s performance was not part of the play, prostrate, unconscious form of President Lincoln. Abbott made his way to the fallen president’s box. He Efforts were made to remove his coat, searching and five other men carried Lincoln across the street for wounds, and in so doing the coat was cut to the Petersen boarding house. Dr. Abbott’s chart about the arms and breast. Tenderly raising his recording Lincoln’s condition as the night progressed inanimate form, the writer and five others carried was published on April 16, 1865 in The New York Times. him... to a house across the street.” ABBOTT, DR. EZRA. Autograph Manuscript Historical Background Signed, “Reminiscences of the Assassination of President Dr. Ezra W. Abbott (1819-1884) of Concord, New Lincoln,” Washington, D.C., penned ca. 1880. 4 pp. Hampshire was at Ford’s Theatre the night of April 6½ x 7½”. #21930 $7,500 14, 1865. Realizing sooner than most that John

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rom the hairs on Lincoln’s head to the fabric of Fhis suit, this lithograph is a beautifully detailed rendering and remains, even with a few areas of foxing, a commanding showpiece.

[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]. Currier & Ives. Lithograph, New York, 1865. In 24 x 29” vintage gold frame. #20323 $3,500

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A c r u c i a l t o o l u s e d t o f o l l o w Historical Background a n d p l a n t r o o p m o v e m e n t s a n d In the spring of 1862, Thomas Eckert was given s t r a t e g i e s o f t h e Ci v i l Wa r charge of the War Department Telegraph Office. The Executive Mansion had no telegraph line, so the incoln’s family was besieged with requests for president frequently visited Eckert to obtain the latest L souvenirs after his death. Here Robert Todd war news or secure a respite from the crush of visitors Lincoln sends a very meaningful relic to one of his at the White House. Lincoln even used Eckert’s father’s closest wartime associates. desk to write out the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation. “Executive Mansion Washington May 21/65 The Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter on Major, April 12, 1861 had turned Lincoln – chief executive Major Hay told me this morning that you of one month’s tenure, with little military training were desirous of some relic of my Father, and I and no combat experience – into a wartime president. take pleasure in complying, for I know how high The president turned the Telegraph Office into his you stood in his esteem. “Situation Room,” scrutinizing the latest news from Nearly all of our effects have already been the front, tracking troop movements, and plotting sent away, but I have found the pair of dividers, strategy. Maps in Lincoln’s White House office bristled which he was accustomed to use, & with which with colored pins marking troop positions. “It is safe you have doubtless often seen him trace distances to say,” his wartime secretaries would later recall, “that on maps. no general in the army studied his maps and scanned With great regard, I am very truly yours his telegrams with half the industry – and it may be R. T. Lincoln added with half the intelligence – which Mr. Lincoln Major T. T. Eckert” gave to his” (Nicolay and Hay, 114).

34 Fo r De t a i l e d De s c r i p t i o n s Vi s i t www .s e t h k a l l e r .n e t William H. Crook, the president’s bodyguard, later recalled a conversation about the choice of Eckert for recalled Lincoln and Grant “poring over maps the Hampton Roads mission: “to use [the president’s] together.” The president may well have had these language as nearly as I can remember it–‘[Eckert] dividers in hand as he plotted strategy with his top never failed to do completely what was given him general. He may also have used them during his to do, and to do it in the most complete and tactful early career as a surveyor. Like George Washington, manner....’” Just a few weeks later, Eckert was invited Lincoln’s surveying experience taught him the central by the president to attend Ford’s Theatre on that importance of geography to any military campaign. fateful night, but was pressured by Stanton to decline. (For more on this, ask for our detailed description.) Provenance: Abraham Lincoln to Robert Todd Eckert later attained the rank of brigadier general Lincoln; given (with letter) to Thomas T. Eckert; by and served as assistant secretary of war. Returning descent to Joanne Eckert Biddle; sold in 1948 to to industry, he worked with Jay Gould, directing the Dawson’s Book Shop; to Justin Turner; to Elsie and telegraph “price wars” that led to consolidation of the Philip Sang; Sotheby Parke- Bernet, December 4, 1981; entire industry. He eventually became president and to Dr. John T. Lattimer; sold by his estate at Heritage chairman of Western Union Telegraph Co. Auction Galleries, 2008. John Hay (1838-1905), who conveyed Eckert’s request Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926) was the only one answered here, was Lincoln’s private secretary and of Lincoln’s children to survive to adulthood. After biographer. He served as secretary of state under graduating from Harvard, and serving as an aide on presidents McKinley and Roosevelt. General Grant’s staff, Robert began a successful career in the railroad industry. He later served as secretary of [LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]. Folding Metal Dividers war (1881-1885) under presidents James Garfield and (Calipers). Approximately 5” long. With: Chester A. Arthur, as minister to Great Britain (1889- LINCOLN, ROBERT TODD. Autograph Letter 1893) and as president of the Pullman Company Signed to Thomas T. Eckert, chief of the War (1897-1911). He is also remembered for his troubled Department Telegraph Office, May 21, 1865. 2 pp., relationship with his mother, Mary Todd Lincoln, on black-bordered mourning stationery. With original who he had committed to a psychiatric hospital for a autograph envelope, again signed “R.T. Lincoln,” brief period in 1875. with his black wax seal on verso. With a substantial provenance file. #21925 $350,000 Thomas Thompson Eckert (1825-1910) was sent to Hampton Roads in February 1865 to discuss protocol with Confederate peace commissioners before Lincoln would meet them himself. Robert Lincoln later

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“Wi t h Ma l i c e To w a r d No n e , Wi t h Ch a r i t y f o r Al l ”

his mourning broadside features quotes from TPresident Lincoln’s “tribute to the Declaration of Independence,” (extracted from the 1858 Lincoln- Douglas debates) and other speeches, including his second inaugural address.

“Wise statesmen as they were, they knew the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants, and so they established those great self-evident truths that when... some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men... or none but Anglo-Saxon white men, were entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity might look up again to the Declaration of Independence, and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began, so that truth, [LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]. Broadside, published by and justice and mercy, and all the humane and Clark & Thayer, printed by E.F. Rollins of Boston, Christian virtues might not be extinguished from Mass. [ca. 1865]. 13¼ x 17”. Archival framing, the land; so that no man would hereafter dare 21” x 24¾”. #20973 $2,500 to limit and circumscribe the great principles on which the temple of liberty was being built.”

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his handbill implicates the Confederate leadership Tin the Lincoln assassination plot. The idea that the Confederate government was involved in the assassination was soon abandoned.

“Whereas, It appears from evidence in the Bureau of Military Justice, the atrocious murder of the late President… [was] incited... by and between Jeff Davis… Jacob Thompson, Clement C. Clay, Beverly Tucker, Geo. N. Sanders, W.C. Cleary and other rebels and traitors...”

[LINCOLN ASSASSINATION] Johnson, Andrew. Small Broadside, Washington, D.C., May 2, 1865. 1 p. 5 x 7¾”. #11292 $2,000 36 Fo r De t a i l e d De s c r i p t i o n s Vi s i t www .s e t h k a l l e r .n e t No r t h Ca r o l i n a Un i o n i s t s Mo u r n Li n c o l n ’s De a t h

scarce newspaper, edited by soon-to-be provisional A governor William Wood Holden, reports Sherman’s April 14th occupation of Raleigh on the front page and a public meeting lamenting Lincoln’s death on the verso. Boldly printed on the verso masthead is Daniel Webster’s famous peroration, “Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.” The North Carolina Standard had resumed publication under its new name just two days prior.

“One of the largest meetings ever held by our citizens assembled at the Courthouse yesterday… There was but one feeling of abhorrence for the [LINCOLN ASSASSINATION]. Newspaper, The deed and its cowardly perpetrators… The death of Daily Standard, Raleigh, N.C., April 19, 1865, Vol. 1, Mr. Lincoln is a national misfortune…” No. 3. 2 pp. 12¼ x 18”. #21793 $850

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n evocative piece by Charles Magnus, a well-known printer of Civil War patriotic A songheets, envelopes, and stationery. [LINCOLN ASSASSINATION]. Broadside, The Nation Mourns, New York, [1865]. 1 p. 5 x 8”. #20545 $350

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dwin Stanton’s woeful letter to Lincoln’s former STANTON, EDWIN M. Autograph Letter E chief of staff, General Halleck, alludes to the Signed as secretary of war, to Major General difficulties of Reconstruction and the contention Henry W. Halleck, Washington, D.C. April 26, between Stanton and President Andrew Johnson. The 1866. 2 pp., on War Department letterhead. conflict between Stanton and Johnson would soon 7¾ x 9¾”. #21929 $2,500 give rise to America’s first presidential impeachment trial, following what nearly amounted to a coup d’ état.

“The events that have happened since we parted & daily are transpiring are as strange as what we passed through together. You are fortunately afar off and at peace, while I am still tugging at the oar as hopelessly & almost as painfully as a galley slave...the upshot you can guess as well as anybody else...”

37 914.289.1776 . s k a l l e r @s e t h k a l l e r .n e t Ch i e f Ju s t i c e Sal m o n Ch as e Su m m a r i z e s Hi s Ci v i l Wa r Fi n a n c i al Me as u r e s

A b o n d p r o p o s a l w o u l d b e Historical Background “m a g n i f i c e n t f o r b r o k e r s , b a n k e r s a n d Chase’s pride in the banking system created during l e n d e r s , b u t d e a t h o n t h e p e o p l e ” his tenure as secretary of the Treasury is evident in this letter. A system of federally chartered national ith an eye on the 1868 presidential race, Chief banks was charged with issuing standardized national WJustice Chase writes New York Tribune publisher bank notes based on their U.S. bond holdings. The Horace Greeley. He gives a summary of the financial federal government became the exclusive printer of measures that made Union victory possible, argues money, and the Bureau of Internal Revenue was against the issuance of a 30-year bond, and criticizes created to collect the nation’s first income taxes. In the Johnson Administration’s failure to control post- addition to the $600 million generated by taxes, the war inflation. U.S. raised $1.5 billion from the sale of government bonds and supplemented this with greenbacks. “I resorted to Legal Tender Notes, made them a currency and borrowed them as cash. The The ambitious Chase continually clashed with patriotism of the people came in aid of the labors Lincoln and other Cabinet members. Three times, of the Treasury and the Legislation of Congress, he tendered his resignation. Finally, on the fourth and the first great object was made secure…. I time, in June 1864, Lincoln accepted. Later that year proposed the National Banking system: and before Lincoln appointed Chase – a firm anti-slavery voice I left the Department its success was assured… my – as chief justice of the Supreme Court. He replaced main object was the establishment of a National the late Roger B. Taney, best known for the infamous currency. This saved us from panic and revulsion Dred Scott decision. at the end of the war, and is of inestimable value to men of labor and men of business…. The object Greeley, a long-time political ally, added new is to catch gudgeons by apparently yielding to the text at the beginning and end of this letter, and popular clamor for taxation on bonds…and it is published it as a communication from “our special proposed to make this a long loan – say 30 years. correspondent.” Even as chief justice, Chase never It will be magnificent for brokers, bankers and gave up his presidential aspirations. He campaigned lenders, but death on the people.” for presidential nominations from the bench in 1868 and 1872, losing the 1872 Liberal Republican Party nomination to Greeley.

CHASE, SALMON P. Letter Signed to Horace Greeley, Washington, D.C., November 19, 1867. 6 pp. 8½ x 5½”. #21759 With: [BRYANT, DAN]. Print, songsheet, “How Are You Green-Backs!” New York, N.Y., 1863. 5 pp. 10 x 13”. #21891 $10,000

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ouglass pens a phrase from his “Lecture on John D Brown,” delivered at Storer College in Harpers Ferry on Memorial Day, 1881. Among the platform guests was the district attorney who prosecuted Brown.

“John Brown Saw Slavery through no mist The address was published in 1881. Proceeds from or cloud, but in a light of infinite brightness, its sale were earmarked for an endowed John Brown which left no one of its ten thousand horrors Professorship. Storer College, founded in 1867, was concealed.” for 25 years the only institution in Virginia that offered African-Americans an education beyond pri- Historical Background mary school. The college closed in 1955, having lost Douglass had admired John Brown since their first government funding in the wake of desegregation. meeting in 1847, but disapproved of Brown’s plan Today the site is part of the Harpers Ferry National to foment a slave revolt. He thought the 1859 raid Historical Park. on Harpers Ferry a grave mistake that would inflame public opinion against the abolitionist movement. DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. Autograph Quotation After the raid, a letter from Douglass to Brown was Signed, 1883. 1 p. 5 x 3”. #20742 $27,500 discovered. A warrant was issued for Douglass’s arrest as an accomplice; he fled to Canada, returning to America a year later. Fo r m o r e i n f o r m a t i o n o n o t h e r Fr e d e r i c k Do u g l a ss l e t t e r s , In his lecture at Storer, Douglass placed Brown’s service a sk f o r o u r u p c o m i n g to his country alongside that of Lincoln’s: “The hour Af r i c a n -Am e r i c a n Ca t a l o g . is met by the man. Brown, and Lincoln, and Grant, came at the nation’s hour of need…. Brown came first and perhaps prepared the way for all that followed.”

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hile Douglass’s letters are scarce, documents Wsigned during his tenure as recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia can be had very reasonably.

DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. Document Signed as recorder of deeds, Washington, D.C., 1881-1886. Approx. 3½ x 8½” folded. #20409 $495 unframed, $995 framed (Quantity discounts and framing options available.)

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Fo l l o w t h e c o u r s e o f t h e w a r a n d for creating the modern images of the Democratic t h e Li n c o l n p r e sid e n c y t h e w a y Donkey, the Republican Elephant, and Santa Claus. Am e r i c a n s did t h e n Winslow Homer also contributed throughout the war. Harper’s were printed in great quantity, on rag arper’s Weekly reported Civil War developments, paper, which allowed many to be preserved. Thus, H foreign affairs, and sports, and included political original Harper’s are still relatively inexpensive, though cartoons, editorial essays, “Humors of the Day,” they contain some of the best Lincoln and Civil War and advertisements. Harper’s became famous for its images. Below are complete original issues of Harper’s illustrations. Each issue contains approximately ten relating to Lincoln. In addition to many individual woodcut engravings, with a double-page centerfold. issues starting at under $100, we can offer a complete Thomas Nast began contributing drawings soon set of issues from 1861 to 1865. 16 pp. 11 x 15½” each. after the magazine’s founding; he is remembered #21038 $9,000

Lincoln Raises the Flag President Lincoln Commissions General Grant President Lincoln hoisting the 34-star American Death of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren. Ulysses S. Grant flag on Independence Hall, Philadelphia, with his receiving his commission as lieutenant general from speech. United States arsenal at Little Rock, Arkansas President Lincoln. Centerfold: General Custer’s late surrendered to the state troops. Interior of the new movement across the Rapidan. Mobile, Alabama. dome of the capitol at Washington. Front view of Fort March 26, 1864. $120 Pickens, Pensacola. Inauguration of Pres. Jefferson Davis at Montgomery, Alabama. March 9, 1861. $160 Lincoln and His Secretaries Philadelphia Great Central Fair buildings. General Warren The Inauguration of President Lincoln rallying the Marylanders. “touched... by the better angels of our nature…” President Lincoln and his Lincoln’s inaugural address. secretaries. Struggle for the Winslow Homer illustrations Salient near Spotsylvania, include: Inaugural Procession… Virginia. Sherman’s advance. Passing the Gate of the Capitol; General Logan’s skirmishes Presidents Buchanan and Lincoln advancing toward the railroad at Entering the Senate Chamber Resaca. June 11, 1864. $100 Before the Inauguration; The (June 11, 1864) Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861. The Navy ‘Rally round the Flag, Boys!’ Yard at Norfolk, Virginia. Fort President Lincoln Centerfold Davis, Texas. The Washington Thomas Nast illustration: The Arsenal. March 16, 1861. $395 Halt. General Sherman’s victory. (March 16, 1861) Rebel prisoners being conducted to Atlanta from Jonesborough. Lincoln Reviews the Army of the Potomac Centerfold: ‘Rally round the Flag, Collecting confiscated rebel cotton. Ironclad Keokuk Boys!’ showing President Lincoln. sinking after the battle at Charleston. Pres. Lincoln, Monument to Stephen Douglas. General Hooker, and their staff at a review of the General Sherman’s army Army of the Potomac. Bombardment of Fort Sumter. destroying the Macon Railroad May 2, 1863. $100 near Jonesborough, Georgia. October 1, 1864. $225 (October 1, 1864) 40 Fo r De t a i l e d De s c r i p t i o n s Vi s i t www .s e t h k a l l e r .n e t The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation Lincoln’s Assassination “All persons held as slaves within Front page: John Wilkes Booth. Small diagram of any state... the people whereof shall then be Ford’s Theatre interior. in rebellion against the United States shall be then, Booth shooting Lincoln thenceforward, and forever, free…” in the head. Running Thomas Nast illustration: McClellan entering away inside the theatre. Frederick, Maryland. The Preliminary Emancipation Siege of Mobile. Thomas Proclamation, September 22, 1862. View of Harpers Nast illustrations: The Ferry and Maryland Heights. War map of Kentucky. Eve of War, The Dawn Capitol grounds at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania turned of Peace, Sumter 1861 into a camp. Centerfold: Battle of Antietam. Grand to 1865. April 29, 1865. depot for General Grant’s army at Columbus, $625 Kentucky. October 4, 1862. $250 (April 29, 1865)

The Death Bed and Funeral The Emancipation Proclamation Lincoln and son Tad at home. Front page: African-American teamsters duel. Text Scene at the death bed of Pres. of Emancipation Proclamation on p. 2. Mankato, Lincoln. Funeral service at the Minnesota. Thomas Nast illustrations: the war in White House. Centerfold: Ford’s the West; the war in the border states. Centerfold: Theatre. Attempted assassination Winslow Homer illustrations: A Shell in the Rebel of Secretary Seward. Citizens Trenches, African- viewing the body at City Hall, Americans fighting. New York. May 6, 1865. $595 Map of Mississippi. Reception of the authorities of New (May 6, 1865) Orleans by General Funeral Procession in New York City Butler. General Front page: Andrew Johnson. General Boston Banks’s forces landing Corbett. Herold and Booth’s capture inside burning at Baton Rouge, barn. Post-mortem examination of Booth’s body on Louisiana. January board the monitor Montauk. Centerfold: President 17, 1863. $250 Lincoln’s funeral procession in New York City. May (January 17, 1863) 13, 1865. $250

President Lincoln’s Second Inauguration “… until every drop of blood drawn by the lash Lincoln’s Former Home, and Lee’s Surrender shall be paid with another drawn with the sword” Front page: Ruins of Garrett’s barn where Booth was Front page: President Lincoln taking oath at his shot. Building erected for the reception of Lincoln’s second inauguration. Editorial quoting Lincoln’s remains at Cleveland, Ohio. Reception of Lincoln’s second inaugural address (though not printing the full remains at Chicago. President Lincoln’s former home text). Visit to Fort Sumter office by General Gilmore. in Springfield, Illinois. Thomas Nast illustrations: “55th Mass. colored regiment singing John Brown’s Palm Sunday, the march in streets of Charleston.” Centerfold: President Savior’s Entry into Lincoln’s second inauguration at Capitol. Generals Jerusalem, The Porter and Dahlgren landing troops at Bull’s Bay, Surrender of Gen. South Carolina. Rebel General Ewell’s headquarters. Lee and His Army to Exchanging prisoners at Aiken’s Landing. March 18, Lieut. General Grant. 1865. $350 May 20, 1865. $175

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Ca l l i n g f o r c o l l a b o r a t i o n a m o n g “d e c e n t c i t iz e n s ”

hallenging a demand for party C conformity, Roosevelt recalls the flexibility of Lincoln and his fellow Civil War Republicans in accomplishing their aims. Threatened with a censure by a Progressive Party leader, the feisty Roosevelt declares his intention to stand firm.

Excerpts “It is extraordinary how impossible it seems to be to make men learn the lessons of history. Apparently you and the gentlemen who feel as you do have absolutely forgotten how things were done in the early days of the Republican party. There was no attempt made to insist upon uniformity of action in every state … Of course, I am no more to be compared to Lincoln than the present crisis is to be compared to the Civil War; but the principles are the same…”

“[Y]ou say that you desire that the entire National Committee of the Progressive party meet and ‘censor’ the action taken in the State of New York.... You of course understand that I was more connected with this action than anyone else. You are entirely at liberty to go ahead with your proposal and censure me and the others. I shall certainly not alter my position in the matter... Roosevelt’s response was colored by the outbreak of men like myself have for years in New York been World War I in Europe on July 28. He found he had endeavoring to make decent citizens understand more in common with former Republican allies than that they ought not to be misled... into keeping with many pacifist Progressives. Roosevelt quickly the machine continually in power.” became an outspoken critic of President Wilson’s neutrality policy, and the foremost advocate for Historical Background entering the war against Germany. In May 1914, two years after his “Bull Moose Party” run, Roosevelt was approached by Progressives seeking ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Typed Letter Signed, to mid-term election help. Many were surprised to Henry M. Wallace, New York, N.Y., August 14, 1914. find the former president advocating fusion with 4 pp. 8 x 9½”. #21879 $11,000 independent-minded Republicans and Democrats to oppose the big political machines in New York and elsewhere. Ca l l o r e m a i l u s t o s e e m a n y a ddi t i o n a l o f f e r s .

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