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SPRINGFIELD,—ILLINOIS
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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
My old customers, and others, are no doubt aware of the terrible time I have had in crossing THE STREAM, and will be glad to know that I will be back, on the same side from which I started, on or before the
Fourth of March next
, when I will be ready to SWAP HOR?SES DISPENSE LAW, MAKE JOKES, SPLIT RAILS and perform other matters in a small way.
Lincoln Business Card
325 A. Lincoln
Attorney and Counselor at Law
Springfield, — Illinois.
To whom it may concern. My old customers, and others, are no doubt aware of the terrible time I have had in crossing the stream, and will be glad to know that I will be back . . . . ready to swap horses, dispense law, make jokes, split rails, and perform other matters in a small way.
Probably published for Mr. Lincoln by the Democratic National Committee, or one of their friends, in 1864.
A rare campaign souvenir. $12.50
Rees as a rebel sympathizer, the number of troops passing thru Washington to the front, his visiting the Indiana soldiers in hospitals, etc.
ALS 4 pages, Aug. 19, 1862.
SLAVERY
Indiana Quakers' Petition
288. Appeal to the Governor of Missouri for the release of Thompson, Burr and Work, jailed for aiding slaves to escape. Signed by about eighty men and women.
Two pages folio, posted end to end as one page.
289. Another similar but “To the