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FRESH AND VERY FINE ABRAHAM LINCOLN FREE FRANK, SENT AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO A SENATE ALLY IN WASHINGTON.
Henry Bowen Anthony was a prominent Whig and later Republican politician, serving as Governor of Rhode Island, U.S. Senator and Senate President pro tempore. At the time of his death in 1884, he was one of the longest serving senators in history (Image)
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VERY FINE. AN ATTRACTIVE NOTE WRITTEN, SIGNED AND DATED BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN SHORTLY AFTER HIS ELECTION TO A SECOND TERM.
The card is on paper (held in place with small slits so no residue or other evidence on card of mounting). Accompanied by two newspaper clippings noting Miss Mollie Rhodes of Fairfax C.H. Va. pushed her way past the guards and saw Lincoln. She told him the story of her family which left their plantation in Virginia to move north at the start of the war but were now destitute. He admired her spirit and wrote this note. She got the job and they let her keep the note. (Image)
VERY FINE. AN ATTRACTIVE EXAMPLE OF LINCOLN'S SIGNATURE WITH HIS NOTE INSTRUCTING THAT A REBEL SOLDIER BE DISCARGED UPON SWEARING AN OATH TO THE UNITED STATES. A WONDERFUL ARTIFACT.
On December 8, 1863 Lincoln issued a "Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction", which provided for a general pardon to soldiers and some officials in the Confederacy upon swearing an oath of allegiance to the United States. The Oath reads in part: "I, [name], do solemnly swear, in the presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the union of states thereunder; and that I will, in like manner, abide and faithfully support all acts of Congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves...and that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all proclamations of the President made during the existing rebellion having reference to slaves...So help me God.” Lincoln signed a number of these notes in early 1865, before his assassination in April. They are very desirable artifacts of Civil War history. (Image)
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