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[LINCOLN, Abraham]. WASHBURNE, Elihu Benjamin (1817-1887). Abraham Lincoln, His Personal History and Public Record. Speech of Hon. E.B. Washburne of Illinois. Delivered in the House of Representatives, May 29, 1860. N.p. [Chicago?] Republican Congressional Committee [May 1860].
8vo, 8pp. Disbound. (Very slight browning). Cloth protective slipcase.
"NO FRIENDS TO REWARD AND NO ENEMIES TO PUNISH." A rare campaign leaflet in which Washburne (later Secretary of War in the Grant administration) presents a variety of quotations from Lincoln's public speeches (including the debates with Douglas) and features the Republican Platform adopted by the Chicago Convention, May 17, 1860. Washburne extols Lincoln as a candidate, praising his "simplicity of manners" and "inflexible patriotism,"and promises that "Mr. Lincoln has been but little in public life, and he will come into the Presidential chair 'fresh from the people,' with 'no friends to reward and no enemies to punish.'"
Monaghan 87; Wessen, Campaign Lives of Abraham Lincoln 4 ("the most meritorious of the campaign lives of 1860...drawn principally from the author's own intimate knowledge of Lincoln's career").
8vo, 8pp. Disbound. (Very slight browning). Cloth protective slipcase.
"NO FRIENDS TO REWARD AND NO ENEMIES TO PUNISH." A rare campaign leaflet in which Washburne (later Secretary of War in the Grant administration) presents a variety of quotations from Lincoln's public speeches (including the debates with Douglas) and features the Republican Platform adopted by the Chicago Convention, May 17, 1860. Washburne extols Lincoln as a candidate, praising his "simplicity of manners" and "inflexible patriotism,"and promises that "Mr. Lincoln has been but little in public life, and he will come into the Presidential chair 'fresh from the people,' with 'no friends to reward and no enemies to punish.'"
Monaghan 87; Wessen, Campaign Lives of Abraham Lincoln 4 ("the most meritorious of the campaign lives of 1860...drawn principally from the author's own intimate knowledge of Lincoln's career").