[Lincoln, Abraham]:

DAILY ILLINOIS STATE REGISTER. VOL. 14.] NO.22.

Springfield: Charles H. Lanphier, 1861 [January 26]. [4] pp. Folio. 16-1/4" x 23-1/2.". Lightly chipped blank inner edge. Each page printed in six columns, each separated by a rule. Very Good.

The Register, no friend of Abraham Lincoln, was a Democratic Paper supporting the Crittenden Compromise. Reporting on State and National issues, the Register notes, "The Crittenden Resolutions have strong friends, but the ultra republicans will not take them." Lincoln had insisted that his allies hold firm against Crittenden's Compromise. The Register rebukes Lincoln for his famous declaration that "the Union could not endure, permanently, part slave and part free." Developments in the fracturing Union are reported.
Lincoln had been elected President nearly three months before the appearance of this issue. His inauguration would occur five weeks later. Paid advertisers include John McClernand and John Stuart, who advertise their legal services in the first column of page 1. The large number and variety of advertisements for an array of medical complaints, about four columns, are surprising- - and a little disturbing.
This issue also reports an incident involving the John Brownites at Boston, who were snubbed by British Lord Brougham after inviting him to attend a convention discussing the abolition of slavery. Item #39392

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