"THE PLATFORM" - LINCOLN RE-ELECTION PLATFORM HANDBILL
Scarce handbill "THE PLATFORMS.", 1p. 4to., [1864], bearing the platforms of the Lincoln-Johnson Republicans and the McClellan-Pendleton Democrats side-by-side, with a rather biased analysis of both at bottom. Lincoln's platform declares, in part: "...Slavery was the cause, and now constitutes the strength, of this rebellion...hostile to the principles of republican government...We are in favor, furthermore, of such an amendment...as shall terminate and forever prohibit the existence of Slavery within the limits of the jurisdiction of the United States...foreign immigration...should be fostered and encouraged...". Chips at right margin, a tack hole at top, one fold, still very good.