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Lot 3047



Lincoln Campaign Speech, eight-page booklet, 5½" x 8½", containing the full text of a speech delivered February 27, 1860 at the Cooper Institute in New York City, sub-titled "The Republican Party Vindicated—The Demands of The South Explained"; in the speech Lincoln urges that slave states remain so but that no more states or territories should be allowed slavery and that the Union and the Constitution should prevail over states' rights; staples missing and top and right edges trimmed slightly, the latter just into the text, otherwise Fine and rare.
Estimate $500 - 750

This speech first brought Lincoln to the attention of the Eastern politicians and ultimately led to his presidential nomination by the Republican Party.


 
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