Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865

Series: Union campaign documents ; no. 3. Alternate title: How peace can be obtained. Remarks of Honorable Reuben E. Fenton, at Jamestown, N.Y. Notes: Caption title. Pages [21]-22: A plain statement of facts verified by the observation and reflection of the mass in every community. Pages [23-24]: The platforms. In double columns. FAU Libraries' copy edges have been trimmed to 22 cm.

"A surrender to the rebels advocated--a disgraceful and pusillanimous peace demanded--the federal government shamefully vilified, and not a word said against the crime of treason and rebellion. "FAU Libraries' copy copy with untrimmed edges and unopened pages. Summary: Extracts from speeches at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Aug. 29-30, 1864, designed to put the speakers and the Copperhead theme of an "honorable peace" in a bad light. The Copperheads were a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates. Republicans started calling antiwar Democrats "copperheads", likening them to the poisonous snake. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Copperheads nominally favored the Union and strongly opposed the war, for which they blamed the abolitionists, and they demanded immediate peace and resisted draft laws. They wanted President Lincoln and the Republicans ousted from power, seeing the president as a tyrant who was destroying American republican values with his despotic and arbitrary actions.

Speech of Honorable Charles Sumner, before the New York Young Men's Republican Union. Notes: "By this publication, the Young Men's Republican Union, at whose invitation the speech was delivered, brings to a close the arduous labors of its third presidential campaign"--Prefatory note. FAU libraries' copy side stitched with cord.

Delivered at Buffalo and Washington : at meetings held to ratify the nomination of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, for President and Vice-President. Caption title. Text in two columns."Presidential campaign of 1860. Republican Executive Congressional Committee ..." campaign advertisement on page 8. Includes extract from a speech by Lincoln in 1858, and his letter to Canisius, May 17, 1859. Republican Platform adopted by the Chicago Convention, May 17, 1860 -- Remarks of Mr. Spaulding -- Extract from a speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln -- Letter from Mr. Lincoln. FAU Libraries' copy edges trimmed to 22 cm.