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Property from the Eric C. Caren Collection(LINCOLN, ABRAHAM)The Rail Mauler. No. 12. Brownsville, Pennsylvania: Published at the office of the "Clipper," Friday, September 21, 1860 Folio, 4 pages (13 1/4 x 10 1/8 in.; 338 x 257 mm), title in "log letters" and incorporating a fine woodcut vignette of Lincoln wielding a maul, text in four columns; lightly dampstained, disbound with the two leaves separated. The consignor has independently obtained a letter of authenticity from PSA that will accompany the lot. A lively and very rare Lincoln campaign newspaper, much less common than the Rail Splitter. Edited by Seth T. Hurd, The Rail Mauler supported the candidacies of Lincoln, Hannibal Hamlin, and Andrew Curtin, the latter a successful gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania. The Mauler mixed straight reports on Lincoln's campaign, reprinting many of his speeches and other commentary, with broader coverage of the activities of Democrats Stephen Douglas and John Breckinridge. The paper also featured unrelenting jibes leveled at the Democrats, providing an unvarnished look at the exuberant politicking of that century. Much of this issue is devoted to twitting Douglas over his claim that a campaign tour of New England and upstate New York was really just a personal visit to his elderly mother. The Rail Mauler is not recorded in either Gregory's Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Newspapers or in Monaghan's Lincoln Bibliography. In 1994, Sotheby's sold bound set of issues 2–11 (now in the Gilder Lehrman Institute), but issue 12 has evidently never before appeared at auctionCondition ReportCondition as described in catalogue entry. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The