These items are on exhibit in the Lincoln Exhibit Case on the Second Floor of the University of Delaware Library, between July 8 and December 29, 2014.
Selections from the Lincoln Collection
Lieber, Francis. Lincoln of Mcclellan?: Oproep Aan Die Hollanders in Amerika. New York: Loyal Publication Society, 1863.
This anti-slavery tract is aimed at voters of Dutch background.
McClellan, George B. "Leave Pope to Get Out of His Scrape": McClellan's Dispatches. Washington: Printed by McGill & Witherow, 1864.
This devastating anti-McClellan piece charges Gen. McClellan with allowing Pope's Union forces at Second Manassas "to be outnumbered, while the large and well appointed force of McClellan lay, during the three days' struggle, within marching distance, almost motionless"; and proving it with McClellan's own dispatches.
George H. Pendleton, the Copperhead Candidate for Vice-President: His Hostility to the American Republic Illustrated by His Record As a Representative in the Congress of the United States from the State of Ohio. Washington, D.C: Union Congressional Committee, 1864.
In this campaign pamphlet supporters of the Union provide evidence to show that Pendleton was more devoted to confederacy than to the United States to which he had sworn to protect.
The Chicago Copperhead Convention: The Treasonable and Revolutionary Utterances of the Men Who Composed It. Extracts from All the Notable Speeches Delivered in and Out of the National "democratic" Convention. Washington, D.C: Congressional Union Committee, 1864.
This campaign pamphlet is a blistering attack against the Democratic candidates McClellan and Pendleton and what is termed their platform of treason.
Lowell, James R. The President's Policy. Philadelphia: Printed by Crissy & Markley, 1864
These two pamphlets print important addresses supporting the presidential candidacy of Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort.
Voter's Catechism: Plain Questions and Answers for the Campaign. New York: Sold by the American News Company, 1864.
This pro-Lincoln pamphlet accuses McClellan of desiring the destruction of the Union.
The Life and Public Services of Major-General McClellan: Which Includes a Complete Summary of His Report. Philadelphia: Martin & Randall, 1864.
This campaign pamphlet written by an anonymous supporter of General McClellan’s presidential candidacy offers a glowing account of McClellan’s war record.
Sights and Notes, by A Looker on in Vienna. Washington: s.n., 1864.
This anonymously-written pamphlet–“Dedicated to the Union Army”–is a satiric look at the campaign of George McClellan and the Peace Democrats.
McClintock, John, and J T. Butts. Discourse Delivered on the Day of the Funeral of President Lincoln, Wednesday, April 19, 1865: In St. Paul's Church, New York. New York: Press of J.M. Bradstreet & Son, 1865.
This commemorative booklet published an early printing of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, one of his greatest speeches, which he delivered a little more than a month before his assassination and which includes this memorable passage:
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
Cook, William A. Opinions and Practice of the Founders of the Republic: In Relation to Arbitrary Arrests, Imprisonment of Tories, Writ of Habeas Corpus, Seizure of Arms and of Private Papers, Domiciliary Visits, Confiscation of Real and Personal Estate, Etc., Etc. Or, the Administration of Abraham Lincoln Sustained by the Sages and Heroes of the Revolution. Washington, D.C.: W. H. Moore, printer, 1864.
This staunch supporter of Abraham Lincoln defends the President’s suspension of habeas corpus and invocation of martial law by drawing parallels to similar actions taken by the founders of the American Republic during the War of Independence.
