The Nation's Success and Gratitude, Includes a very early Printing of Lincoln's "The Negroes and the War" Letter: "I believed...military emancipation, and arming the blacks would come"
The Nation's Success and Gratitude. Philadelphia: Henry B. Ashmead, 1864. 8.5" x 5.75" inches. Pink wrappers. An address given in Danville, Kentrucky on Thanksgiving, 1863. Scarce printing of an address thought to be given by famous Presbyterian minister and educator, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge. Delivered like a sermon but addresses earthly.....