THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY WITH NOTES AND QUERIES EXTRA NUMBER-NO. 19 COMPRISING THE NASBY PAPERS EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS ON THE AMERICAN REBELLION PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE (December 9, 1863.) WILLIAM ABBATT 410 EAST 32D STREET, NEW YORK T EDITOR'S PREFACE HE Lincoln Bibliography, published in 1906 by Judge Daniel Fish, contains (with its supplement) about 1500 items. There are certainly 200, and perhaps 300, not listed by him: making a total of seventeen or eighteen hundred books, pamphlets, newspapers, magazines, broadsides, etc., all relating, in whole or part, to the "Great Emancipator." Some of these are extremely scarce; others, while not so scarce, are practically unknown to the public, often because the character of the publication is such that no one would think to find in it an article upon Mr. Lincoln. In this, the first of our series (for we expect to print two or more in addition), the opening article is taken from the publication which it is said Mr. Lincoln referred to as the third force which put down the Rebellion-the Nasby Papers, by David R. Locke, for many years editor of the Toledo Blade. All of the President's biographers refer to his keen appreciation of Nasby's humor, and his frequent reading of selections from the book, to members of the Cabinet, or distinguished visitors. The original is now very scarce. The second is from a publication practically unknown to Americans, though Mr. Goddard's letters to the Birmingham papers were of such great value to the Union cause that he was warmly congratulated by Charles Francis Adams, our Minister to England, John Bright, and other representative men. The third is the record of the action of the Union League of Philadelphia, upon the occasion of the assassination. Originally printed as a pamphlet, chiefly for the members, it is now very scarce, and has never before been reprinted. 244019 |