1862 Civil War newspaper LINCOLN Emancipation of SLAVES

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Please VISIT OUR EBAY STORE at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of more HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction: /Steve-Goldman-HISTORICAL-NEWSPAPERS_W0QQsspagenameZL2222QQtZkm SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE ORIGINAL Civil War newspaper, the New York Tribune (Semi-Weekly) dated March 7, 1862. Prominent front page headline and long proclamation signed in type by President ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Next day printing of the first public proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln on his plan to emancipate the slaes, albeit gradually. The Union victory at Antietam made Lincoln change his approach from gradual emancipation to immediate emancipation (on Jan 1, 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation). That notwithstanding this newspaper has the earliest public indication that Lincoln was going to free the slaves !! GREAT for display !!! Abraham Lincoln's position on freeing the slaves was one of the central issues in American history . Though Abraham Lincoln was one of the people identified as most responsible for the abolition of slavery , his position evolved over the years, and while he early went on record as being personally opposed to slavery, he did not initially take the position that it was appropriate that federal laws be passed to abolish the practice in states w it already existed. Most Americans agreed that slavery had to expand to maintain its political power, and by ending that expansion, Lincoln proposed to put slavery on a course of gradual extinction.Before the American Civil War and even on the war's early stages Lincoln said that the Constitution prohibited the federal government from abolishing slavery in states w it already existed. His position and the position of the Republican Party in 1860 was that slavery should not be allowed to expand into any more territories, and thus all future states admitted to the Union would be free states . In this manner, he expected that slavery would be put on a path to eventual extinction.The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act , written to form the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, included language, designed by Stephen A. Douglas , which allowed the settlers to decide whether they would or would not accept slavery in their region. Lincoln saw this as a repeal of the 1820 Missouri Compromise which had outlawed slavery above the 36-30' parallel.Douglas and Lincoln aired their disagreement in three public speeches during September and October of 1854. The most comprehensive address, the" Peoria Speech ", was given by Lincoln in Peoria, Illinois, on October 16. He and Douglas both spoke to the large audience, Douglas first and Lincoln in response two hours later. The three hour speech, transcribed after the fact by Lincoln himself, presented thorough moral, legal and economic arguments against slavery, and set the stage for LincolnÂ's political future.In 1862 Lincoln made an early public proclamation regarding his plan to slowly emancipate the slaves. During the war he used the war powers of the presidency to issue the Emancipation Proclamation , which declared "all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people wof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free" but exempted border states and those areas of slave states already under Union control. As late as February 1865 he offered to pay the owners for the emancipated slaves; the buyout offers were rejected. (In the District of Columbia the slaves were purchased and freed.) It has been argued that by making a declaration only about territories he did not control, as a practical matter, he did not free a single slave. Slaves that had escaped to the Union side were, however, immediately freed - as were millions more as areas came under Union control. Very Good condition. This listing includes the complete entire original Civil War newspaper, NOT just a clipping or a page of it. STEPHEN A. GOLDMAN HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS stands behind all of the ite... read more

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