The following material contains wording that is offensive to many in the world of today. However, the work is provided unedited for its historical content and context. Letter from an Old Acquaintance and Laboring Associate. The New York Times, July 11, 1860 DEAR SIR : The following item appeared in the Columbus Statesman a few [...]

New Orleans. Monday, July 9, 1860 The schooner Clotilde, with 124 Africans on board arrived in Mobile Bay to-day. A steamboat immediately took the negroes up the river. _____________ The short notice above, buried on page 5 of the July 11, 1860, issue of The New York Times, fails to convey the historical significance of [...]

Terre Haute July 6, 1860 My Dear Sir A few days before I left Washington I recd. your last letter & had, as you suggested, a brief interview with H. W. D: — it was, however, necessarily too brief to be very Satisfactory because neither he nor I had time to make it otherwise. It [...]

New York July 2, 1860 My Dear Sir: I have never yet had influence with any Federal Administration, and may have no better with the next than with the last. I never wrote a letter to a President elect nor to a nominee of my party for that post. This is a government of lawyers, [...]

Douglas –“It’s all over, The darned boot has bursted and I won’t be able to reach the White House.” This July 1, 1860 Chicago Rail Splitter cartoon identifies the split in the Democratic Party as preventing Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois, nominee of the Northern Democratic faction, from reaching the White House. “Squatter Sovereignty” was [...]

$10 Note, Ocoee Bank, Cleaveland, Tennessee, July 1, 1860 Antebellum bank note includes a stylized Native American and a slave picking cotton.  

Leavenworth June 30th 1860 Hon A Lincoln My Dear Sir, The Editorial slip1 herewith transmitted is one of a series of Bleeding Editorials which I propose to write for the Times by way of furnishing food for the campaign in the States; I am satisfied they should be copied by all the Republican papers in [...]