Lincoln, Abraham | Foreshadowing the Lincoln-Douglas debates

Lincoln, Abraham

Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, Delivered in Springfield, Saturday Evening, July 17, 1858. [Springfield, 1858]

8vo (235 x 148 mm, unopened). Caption title. Dampstained at lower margins with repair to inside lower corners, central fold reinforced. Half red morocco slipcase gilt, chemise.

A scarce separate printing of this speech from Lincoln's senatorial campaign against Stephen Douglas, signed at the head of the first page by Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, Lincoln's great-grandson and last living descendant (he died in 1985).

In this prelude to his debates with Douglas, Lincoln urges that slavery be put on course for "ultimate extinction," repeats his warning that "A house divided against itself can not stand" (p. 5), and asserts his allegiance to the Declaration of Independence.

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