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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. THE LOYAL
COLORED PEOPLE OF BALTIMORE.
“The First Day of January, Anno Domini
1864 Will always be to the COLORED PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES
the most memorable day in the History of the Race . . .
Broadside, 20 x 12 inches,
printed in gold on glazed blue-black paper; the text with an elaborate floral gilt border.
Fragile with some wrinkling but no apparent damage. In a period frame. Needs conserva-
tion.
Baltimore, 1864
[3,000/4,000]
BROADSIDE TO COMMEMORATE THE GIFT OF A DELUXE BIBLE TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN
,
IN GRATITUDE FOR EMANCIPATION
“From that day they will date their rise and progress as
a people, worthy of the rights and privileges of Citizenship. But they will especially look upon
it as the dawn of universal freedom and the sure harbinger of their redemption from the igno-
rance and degradation that slavery has heretofore fastened alike upon the bond and free. To
Abraham Lincoln do the Colored Men of American owe this inestimable change in their condi-
tion and prospects, when on the First Day of January 1864, he issued that
PROCLAMATION OF FREEDOM, which will hereafter be regarded as the sublime State
Paper of Modern Civilization.” With these words, the Loyal Colored People of Baltimore pre-
sented Lincoln with “a gift which we deem the most appropriate token of our gratitude and
affection – THE BIBLE – From which he learned how much of love and humanity our
Saviour compressed into the Golden rule which he has so nobly followed — ‘Do unto others,
as ye would have them do unto you.’” Beneath the presentation are the names of the men and
women of the “Loyal Colored People of Baltimore.” A painting of Lincoln showing the Bible
to Sojourner Truth was destroyed in a fire, but a photo of the painting was made and a carte-
de-visite exists.
NO COPY LOCATED BY OCLC
;
NO COPY IN THE LINCOLN
/
BARRETT SALE
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