SPEECH OF HON. JOHN HICKMAN DELIVERED IN CONCERT HALL, PHILADELPHIA, JULY 24TH, 1860.
[Sacramento? Printed by the Republican State Central Committee of California. 1860]. 8pp. Disbound with some loosening. Caption title [as issued]. Printed in double columns. Good+.
At the head of the title page: 'Campaign Document No. 3,' issued by California's Republican State Central Committee. The last two pages print the Republican Party's platform adopted at Chicago two months earlier.
Hickman pinpoints the basic issue: "The extension of negro slavery into the territories of the United States has become a settled policy of the Democratic party." Slavery, he says, "is the child of force, and as the sentiment of the world is against it, it cannot live without the sustaining hand of power. Surrounded by an atmosphere of freedom it is necessarily unsafe, and statutory safeguards and defences become necessary." After examining the candidacies of Breckinridge and Douglas, he says of Lincoln: "He is honest and capable, and attached to the principles of the Constitution, and his election will assign limits to sectional oligarchy, and make labor honest and remunerative."
Sabin 31703 note. Greenwood 1272 [another issue]. LCP 4769 [another issue]. Not in Monaghan [but see Monaghan 3735 for German translation of this Speech], Miles, Cowan or Drury. Item #27125
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