2021-05 Raynors HCA Live
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A complete and authentic issue of The World, New York, August 21, 1862, 8pp., disbound, VG. From the third page, running two columns, under "Mr. Greeley's Attack on the President". In small part, Greeley writes, "We complain that the Union cause has suffered and is now suffering immensely, from mistaken deference to Rebel Slavery. Had you, Sir, in your Inaugural Address, unmistakably given notice that, in case the Rebellion already commenced were persisted in, and your efforts to preserve the Union and enforce the laws should be resisted by armed force, you would recognize no loyal person as rightfully held in Slavery by a traitor, we believe that the Rebellion would have received a staggering, if not fatal blow...." Horace Greeley published an angry open "letter" to President Lincoln in the pages of his newspaper, the New York Tribune, on August 20, 1862. Greeley was upset that Lincoln had not yet begun enforcing the "emancipating provisions" of the new Second Confiscation Act (July 17, 1862). Lincoln responded in the pages of a rival newspaper with his own "letter" to Greeley that sternly laid out the president's policy regarding slavery. Lincoln claimed his "paramount object" in the war was to "save the Union" and not "freeing all the slaves." Yet by that point, Lincoln had already decided (in secret) that the only way he could save the Union was to free the slaves.
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