An engraved invitation to Lincoln's second inaugural ball, filled out with the name of Mrs. Hugh McCulloch, the wife of Lincoln’s Comptroller of Currency (and later Secretary of the Treasury), accompanied by the original envelope addressed to Hugh McCulloch. Portraits of Lincoln and Andrew Johnson appear above a list.....
Johnson’s proclamation lifting the blockade against foreign trade at U.S. ports—with the exception of ports in Texas, issued a month after the end of the Civil War. Opening with a reference to President Lincoln’s proclamation closing certain U.S. ports to foreign commerce, Johnson explains that events have since occurred which.....
A rare broadside appealing to the people of New Jersey to form a National Union Party, published just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War by a committee of the NUP. The text begins by noting that the call for the National Republican nominating Convention to meet in.....
Galley proof of a rousing indictment of the Grant Administration delivered at a convention in Abraham Lincoln’s hometown by John McClernand, a Civil War general and Grant’s former subordinate. McClernand’s oration assails Grant’s use of the military as part of reconstruction, specifically citing the installation of William Pitt Kellogg.....
A broadside featuring a persuasive map, issued by the National Union Party near the end of the Civil War in an attempt to sway Democrats to reelect President Lincoln in 1864. Produced by The National Union Party—the name the Republican Party adopted for the 1864 national ticket—this broadside seeks to.....
A rare and compelling broadsheet publication of a letter by Senator Timothy Pickering opposing President Thomas Jefferson’s Embargo Act of 1807. Timothy Pickering (1745–1829) was a Massachusetts statesman and Federalist who served as the third U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Washington and Adams. Here Pickering writes as a Senator.....
An interesting broadside issued by Northern supporters of Abraham Lincoln prior to the election of 1864, containing an essentially forged speech by Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens, in which the purported author objects to Southern secession and foretells the calamity that would follow. Addressed to “Peace-and-Secession” Democrats, this pro-Lincoln.....
A song sheet mourning President Lincoln, set to Stephen Foster’s tune Under the Willow. Upham’s lines crown Lincoln a “martyr” and call for national mourning: “Drape every dwelling in sable night: / Symbol of deep lamentation!” In addition, the song calls for “a garland of lilies white” to be.....
A song sheet mourning President Lincoln, set to Stephen Foster’s tune Under the Willow. The “bewailing” nation is here characterized as crying for “Lincoln, the merciful, doomed to die.” The first chorus calls for the punishment of John Wilkes Booth and crowns Lincoln a “martyr”: “Strike, strike the traitor.....
A fresh example of the fourth installment of Wright’s series of sporadically published manifestos, dedicated to the preservation of American democracy and economic autonomy; expressing animus towards fascism, communism, and all forms of empire. Wright delivers a blistering Independence Day message summed up as follows: “Let this truth come.....