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	Browsing 72 item(s) in: George Washington\nAbraham Lincoln\nRobert Morris\n     Image: Creator: Title: Summary: Subject: 61. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Signatures, [s.d.]. Signatures "Abraham" and "Abraham Lincoln", cut from upper left corner of a larger sheet of paper. Presidents -- United States -- Autographs. 62. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Speech against slavery : AMs fragment, [1859]. Concerns the advantages of free labor over slavery. Believed Believed to be from a speech delivered at Cincinnati 17 Sept. 1859. A manuscript of the speech, lacking this passage, is in the Robert Todd Lincoln Papers in the Library of Congress. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Views on slavery. Slave labor -- United States. 63. Lincoln, Solomon, 1804-1881. ALS, 1848 Mar. 2, Hingham, Mass., to Artemas Hale. Solomon Lincoln asks Hale to forward a request for genealogical information to his fellow congressman Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Family. Lincoln family. 64. Martin, Mary, fl. 1865. LS : to Abraham Lincoln, 1865 Mar. 15. Asks Lincoln to act on a petition for the release her son William Martin, a prisoner of war at Camp Chase, Ohio. Mounted on the bottom of the page are a clipped ANS by John Hay, 12 April, requesting that the petition be sent to Lincoln, and a clipped ANS by Lincoln, 13 April, directing that the prisoner be released on taking the loyalty oath of 8 December 1863. Martin, William -- Imprisonment. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. Amnesty -- United States. 65. McAdam, James G. ALS : to Abraham Lincoln, 1864 June 9. McAdam asks Lincoln's assistance in the case of his friend James A. McCrea, a Scotsman convicted of selling whiskey to soldiers in Kentucky. With an ANS by Lincoln, June 10, on the last page. McCrea, James A. Liquor laws -- Kentucky. 66. Mitchell, A. S., fl. 1864. ALS : to William T. Sherman, 1864 Mar. 21. Asks for the release on oath of three minors, now prisoners of war, who had been forced into the Confederate Army. With autograph endorsements by Sherman, 20 March; and Abraham Lincoln, 14 April, directing that the boys be released on taking the loyalty oath of 8 December 1863. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. Amnesty -- United States. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Juvenile. Child soldiers -- United States. 67. Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886, recipient. Petition and endorsement : Washington, D.C., 1863 Sept. 10. An unsigned petition, asking Seymour to commission Sgt. Edward A. Platt. An autograph endorsement of the same date on the verso by Abraham Lincoln explains that Platt's friends had apparently wanted him to sign the petition, and although he cannot make such a request to a governor, he believes Platt is worthy. Platt, Edward A. New York (State) -- Armed Forces -- Promotions. 68. Tripps, James, fl. 1864. ALS : Orange, N.J., to C.M. Parkman, 1864 Oct. 25. Asks Parkman's help in obtaining the release of his son Capt. James M. Tripps from Libby Prison. With an autograph endorsement signed by Abraham Lincoln, 31 Oct., directing that Tripps be exchanged for Capt. William F. Gordon. Tripps, James M., fl. 1864 -- Imprisonment. Gordon, William F., Jr. -- Imprisonment. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. 69. United States Sanitary Commission. Subscription book for facsimiles of the Emancipation Proclamation, [1863 Oct.], Washington, D.C. In October 1863, Abraham Lincoln sent his original manuscript of the Emancipation Proclamation to be sold for the benefit of the Northwestern Fair of the United States Sanitary Commission, forerunner of the Red Cross. It was purchased by Thomas B. Bryan, President of the Soldiers' Home of Chicago, who decided to sell lithographic copies of the proclamation to benefit sick and disabled Union servicemen. This subscription book for facsimiles of the Emancipation Proclamation contains the signatures of Lincoln, Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, all cabinet members, and members of Congress from every state in the Union, including the future president James A. Garfield, all personally solicited by Bryan. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. 70. United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) Annual message to Congress : MsS, 1864 Dec. 6, Washington, D.C. Manuscript, in the hands of three different clerks, of Lincoln's last presidential message to Congress, signed and dated by Lincoln. Topics discussed include foreign relations, the election of 1864, financial affairs, settlement of the West, and a review of the Civil War. Presidents -- United States -- Messages. United States -- Foreign relations -- 1861-1865. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 71. United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) Executive order : Washington, D.C., 1865 Mar. 6. Orders free passage through federal lines for goods purchased by the government from Amos C. and William Babcock and safe conduct for their agents. Signed by Lincoln. Babcock, Amos C., fl. 1865. Babcock, William, fl. 1865. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Equipment and supplies. Safe-conducts. 72. United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) Warrant, 1861 Oct. 4, Washington, D.C. Authorizes the secretary of State to affix the seal of the United States to a treaty or agreement between the United States and the Delaware Indians. Printed form filled in by hand and signed by Lincoln. Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872. United States. Dept. of State Delaware Indians -- Treaties, 1861. Indians of North America -- Middle Atlantic States.
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