(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) Lincoln Abraham The War Policy of th

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Lincoln, Abraham. The War Policy of the Administration: Letter of the President to the Union Mass Convention. 8 pages, 9 x 5 1/2 inches, on one folding sheet; moderate wear including a chip in upper corner, stitch holes, folds, and toning. [Albany, NY?]: Evening Journal, [1863]

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A tremendously eloquent but largely forgotten piece of rhetoric on the war, written not long after the Emancipation Proclamation and the decision to arm the "colored troops." The president observes "You say that you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you. . . . Whatever negroes can be got to do as soldiers, leaves just so much less for white soldiers to do in saving the Union. . . . Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of their freedom." He concludes "Peace does not appear so distant as it did. . . . There will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation; while I fear there will be some white ones unable to forget that, with malignant heart and deceitful speech, they have strove to hinder it. . . . God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result." Headed "Evening Journal Documents, (No. 1)." Also includes a letter to the convention by Edward Everett. Monaghan, Lincoln 225. None traced at auction since 1936.