A same day broadside printing of his first Inaugural Address

Lot 146
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Lot 146 | A same day broadside printing of his first Inaugural Address
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A same day broadside printing of his first Inaugural Address

Abraham Lincoln, 4 March 1861

LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865). Chicago Tribune Extra. Monday March 4, 1861. Inaugural Message of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. [Chicago, c. 4 March 1861].



Chicago extra broadside printing of Lincoln's first inaugural address. Printed the day of Lincoln's inauguration, almost certainly from telegraphic dispatches, the broadside gives the full text of this key address in which Lincoln proclaims his determination to preserve the Union. In it, he sounds a conciliatory note, saying that he has "no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists," and appeals to southerners for restraint: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war." The address concludes with the famous plea: "Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battle-field and patriot's grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."



Rare, and apparently unique. Not recorded in Monaghan or the NUC. The Oliver R. Barrett Collection included another apparently unique Chicago broadside issued by the Chicago Daily Post, (sale, Parke-Bernet, 20 February 1952, lot 272) and the National Union Catalogue records two other broadsides of the address, each preserved in a single example.



Broadside, 606 x 232mm (light foxing and occasional mild soiling, inked notation "1861" present but faint). Provenance: Christie's, New York, 20 November 1992, lot 274.

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