LINCOLN, Abraham. Speech of Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, Delivered at the Cooper Institute, Monday, Feb. 27, 1860. New York: New York tribune, Tribune Tracts, No. 4, 1860.
LINCOLN, Abraham. Speech of Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, Delivered at the Cooper Institute, Monday, Feb. 27, 1860. New York: New York tribune, Tribune Tracts, No. 4, 1860. 16pp., 8° (8 7/8 x 5 3/4in.), wrappers (light foxing); printed in two-column format, Lincoln’s speech comprising pp. 1-11; New York Tribune advertisements and subscription terms on back cover. Provenance : George Hambrecht (pencil signature on back cover). FIRST EDITION of the speech that launched Lincoln’s Presidential bid. This first appearance in print of the Cooper Union Address was supervised by Lincoln in proofs, and distributed widely. Three other New York papers would print the entire text, but Greeley’s printing turned Lincoln’s speech from a local to a national event. The Chicago Press and Tribune and The Detroit Tribune also put out pamphlets. For the Northern public, Lincoln struck just the right note of standing firm against slavery, while seeming more moderate than many of the leading Republican contenders. He demolishes Stephen Douglas’s claim that the Framers and the Constitution granted no Federal authority to check slavery’s expansion into western territories. That was precisely what the Northwest Ordinance did, Lincoln points out. But at the same time, he denies any Republican Party involvement in John Brown’s raid, calling it “malicious slander.” He attacks the Dred Scott ruling of Roger Taney but admits there is no Federal power to emancipate slaves in existing States—a view he would change under wartime pressure. But then he gets to the nub of the problem between Southerners and Northerners, which is the simple choice of whether slavery is right or wrong. “Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy.” In his stirring conclusion he said, “Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.” Monahan 50. [ With :] LINCOLN. The Address of the Hon. Abraham Lincoln… delivered at Cooper Institute, February 27, 1860 . New York: George F. Nesbitt & Co., 1860 [1907 reprint.] 20th century facsimile of the 1860 edition issued by Young Men’s Republican Union. 32pp., 8vo, glazed wrappers; in 20th century blue cloth binding.
LINCOLN, Abraham. Speech of Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, Delivered at the Cooper Institute, Monday, Feb. 27, 1860. New York: New York tribune, Tribune Tracts, No. 4, 1860.
LINCOLN, Abraham. Speech of Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, Delivered at the Cooper Institute, Monday, Feb. 27, 1860. New York: New York tribune, Tribune Tracts, No. 4, 1860. 16pp., 8° (8 7/8 x 5 3/4in.), wrappers (light foxing); printed in two-column format, Lincoln’s speech comprising pp. 1-11; New York Tribune advertisements and subscription terms on back cover. Provenance : George Hambrecht (pencil signature on back cover). FIRST EDITION of the speech that launched Lincoln’s Presidential bid. This first appearance in print of the Cooper Union Address was supervised by Lincoln in proofs, and distributed widely. Three other New York papers would print the entire text, but Greeley’s printing turned Lincoln’s speech from a local to a national event. The Chicago Press and Tribune and The Detroit Tribune also put out pamphlets. For the Northern public, Lincoln struck just the right note of standing firm against slavery, while seeming more moderate than many of the leading Republican contenders. He demolishes Stephen Douglas’s claim that the Framers and the Constitution granted no Federal authority to check slavery’s expansion into western territories. That was precisely what the Northwest Ordinance did, Lincoln points out. But at the same time, he denies any Republican Party involvement in John Brown’s raid, calling it “malicious slander.” He attacks the Dred Scott ruling of Roger Taney but admits there is no Federal power to emancipate slaves in existing States—a view he would change under wartime pressure. But then he gets to the nub of the problem between Southerners and Northerners, which is the simple choice of whether slavery is right or wrong. “Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy.” In his stirring conclusion he said, “Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.” Monahan 50. [ With :] LINCOLN. The Address of the Hon. Abraham Lincoln… delivered at Cooper Institute, February 27, 1860 . New York: George F. Nesbitt & Co., 1860 [1907 reprint.] 20th century facsimile of the 1860 edition issued by Young Men’s Republican Union. 32pp., 8vo, glazed wrappers; in 20th century blue cloth binding.
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