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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.
The Last Race of
the Rail-Splitter.
Letterpress broadside, 9
3
⁄
4
x 5
7
⁄
8
inches, with a large wood engraving of
the classic image of the runaway slave with his pack over his back at the top of the page;
beneath are eight verses and choruses of a decidedly hateful attack on Lincoln within a
double-rule border; slightly worn spot at the bottom left side; paper lightly and evenly
toned.
[Baltimore, circa 1861]
[3,500/5,000]
A NOTED
L
INCOLN RARITY
.
A virulent Confederate attack on Lincoln in the form of a song-
sheet, accusing him of cowardice: the newly elected President, on his way to Washington to be
inaugurated, hears of a plot to derail the North Central train he was traveling on. He is spirited
off in disguise to a secret alternate route, while he sends his wife and child on to their doom.
“As frightened rats when houses burn/ Escape before the ruin falls/ So honest Abe, his tail
will turn/ To save his skin from rifle balls. - “He was so scared that dreary night, when hidden
like a cask or bail/ in railroad cars, from ev’ry sight, he passed this city on the rail.” The latter
is an allusion to Baltimore the probable location of printing.
RARE
,
OCLC CITING ONLY FOUR
COPIES
,
GIVES THE PLACE OF PUBLICATION AS
“
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA
.”
Boston Athenaeum, Duke, Wake Forrest and Brown University. Parrish and Willingham,
6400.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) LINCOLN, ABRAHAM
We’ll be Free in
Our Maryland Air -“Gideon’s Band.”
Broadside, 10 x 4
1
⁄
2
inches, 8 stanzas with
repeated chorus within an ornamental border; paper lightly and evenly toned. Corners,
neatly cut, not affecting text (a 19th century indication of remaindering).
Baltimore, Oct.16, 1861
[600/800]
NO COPY LOCATED BY OCLC
.
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