February 23rd, 2012
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2012
Newspaper, “The Newark daily Advertiser,” March 7, 1864, 4pp., disbound, rough at spine not affecting this page 2 report. “Message From the President,” signed in type, 1/2 column in which the President approves the Compensated Emancipation plan. In part, “Resolved , That the United States ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State, in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system. ...”
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