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21.	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.

22.	Craig, Archibald, defendant.	Plea : Coles County, Ill., 1842 Oct. [25].	Craig pleads not guilty in the suit filed against him by Benjamin Turney. Signed by his attorneys, Linder and Walker; with a statement of the plaintiff's concurrence in the hand of his attorney Abraham Lincoln signed by him "Ficklin & Lincoln". Endorsed on the verso "Filed October 25th 1842".	Turney, Benjamin -- Trials, litigation, etc. Craig, Archibald -- Trials, litigation, etc.

23.	Delahay, Mark W. (Mark William), 1818?-1879.	Correspondence : Washington, D.C., with Abraham Lincoln, 1861 May 10.	Delahay requests an interview with Lincoln, whose affirmative autograph reply is on verso.

24.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS, 1864 Sept. 3, Washington, D.C., to Gideon Welles.	Directs the secretary of the Navy to provide the secretary of War with statistics on Navy enlistments.	United States. Navy Dept. United States. War Dept. United States. Navy -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

25.	King, Austin Augustus, 1802-1870.	ALS with the Missouri delegation and others, 1864 Jan. 5, Washington, D.C., to Abraham Lincoln.	Eleven members of Congress from Missouri, four from Kentucky, and the governor of Utah recommend Judge S.P. McCurdy for a judgeship in the Utah or Idaho Territory. With an ANS by Lincoln, dated 27 January, on the verso.	McCurdy, Solomon Portious Sharp, 1820-1890. United States. Congress -- Missouri delegation. Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States.

26.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ADS, 1864 Apr. 20, Washington, D.C.	Endorsement clipped from a larger document, directing that a prisoner of war be allowed to take the loyalty oath prescribed by the amnesty proclamation of 8 December 1863 and be discharged.	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. Amnesty -- United States.

27.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ADS, 1864 July 27, Washington, D.C.	Endorsement clipped from a larger document, directing that a prisoner of war be allowed to take the loyalty oath prescribed by the amnesty proclamation of 8 December 1863 and be discharged.	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. Amnesty -- United States.

28.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ADS, 1864 Nov. 26, Washington, D.C.	Endorsement clipped from a larger document, directing that a prisoner of war be allowed to take the loyalty oath prescribed by the amnesty proclamation of 8 December 1863 and be discharged.	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. Amnesty -- United States.

29.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ADS, 1865 Feb. 20, Washington, D.C.	Endorsement clipped from a larger document, directing that a group of prisoners of war be allowed to take the loyalty oath prescribed by the amnesty proclamation of 8 December 1863 and be discharged.	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. Amnesty -- United States.

30.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ADS, 1864 Apr. 18.	Endorsement on a letter, directing that a prisoner of war be allowed to take the loyalty oath prescribed by the amnesty proclamation of 8 December 1863 and be discharged.	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. Amnesty -- United States.

31.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ADS, 1864 Jan. 12, Washington, D.C.	Establishes the point where the line of the Central Pacific Railroad crosses Arcade Creek in the Sacramento Valley as the western base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.	Central Pacific Railroad Company. Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Boundaries. Railroads -- United States.

32.	Harris, Henry T., fl. 1864.	ALS : Elmira Prison, Elmira, N.Y., to his cousin Louis, 1864 Nov. 9.	Gives details of his arrest and confinement as a prisoner of war and asks for help in obtaining his release. With an autograph endorsement by Abraham Lincoln, 8 December 1864, directing that Harris be released on taking the loyalty oath of 8 December 1863.	Harris, Henry T., fl. 1864 -- Imprisonment. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. Amnesty -- United States.

33.	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.

34.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS, 1848 Mar. 24, Washington, D.C., to Solomon Lincoln, Hingham, Mass.	In reply to a request for genealogical information, Abraham Lincoln had written to Solomon Lincoln what he knew of his family back to his great-great-grandfather. In this letter he answers some of Solomon's questions based on that account, and suggests further lines of inquiry.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Family. Lincoln family.

35.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS and photograph : Washington, D.C., to Mary Motley, Washington, D.C., 1862 May 17.	In reply to a request from the daughter of the historian John Lothrop Motley, Lincoln sends his signature. With envelope addressed and franked by Lincoln's secretary John G. Nicolay. Accompanied by a signed photograph (carte-de-visite, by Mathew Brady).	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Portraits.

36.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS : Springfield, Ill., to W.H. Wells, Waynesburg, Pa., 1859 Jan. 8.	In response to a request for a copy of his debates with Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln writes that Douglas's support for the Dred Scott decision and his refusal to condemn slavery make it impossible for Republicans to support him.	Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861 -- Views on slavery. Slavery -- United States. Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858. United States -- Politics and government -- 1857-1861. Illinois -- Politics and government -- To 1865.

37.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	Baltimore address : holograph ms., [not after 1864 Apr. 18].	In this speech given at the Sanitary Fair in Baltimore, 18 April 1864, Lincoln analyzes conflicting definitions of the word "liberty" and comments on the rumors of the massacre of surrendered black Union troops at Fort Pillow. He takes responsibility for the decision to admit blacks to the army and acknowledges that having employed them the government must give them equal protection. He promises that the facts of the matter will be found, and if the news is true, there will be retribution.	Fort Pillow, Battle of, Tenn., 1864. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Atrocities. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American. African Americans -- Tennessee. Liberty.

38.	Goodrich, Grant, fl. 1863.	ALS : Chicago, to Abraham Lincoln, 1863 July 6.	Introduces J.G. Hamilton, whose brother-in-law William T. Smithson has been imprisoned for treason. In an autograph endorsement dated 1 August, Lincoln asks that Smithson's case be turned over to the civil court.	Hamilton, J. G., fl. 1863. Smithson, William T., fl. 1861-1863 -- Imprisonment. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Collaborationists.

39.	Elliott, Andrew, defendant.	Answer in Berry v. Elliott et al : Springfield, Ill., 1846 Mar. 26.	Legal document in the hand of Abraham Lincoln in a case involving the estate of one of the first settlers in Springfield. Elisha Kelly from North Carolina, with his father Henry and four brothers, John, Elijah, William and George, were the first to build cabins on the site of Springfield. William Kelly later left for Missouri, but before he left he placed several notes in the hands of Andrew Elliott, who opened the Buckhorn Tavern at Springfield in 1821, to be collected for his daughter. This document deals with the suit of John Berry on behalf of his daughter, Kelly's granddaughter, against Elliott. The matter was complicated by certain verbal instructions given by Kelly after his departure, and so the full history of the case is here set forth. Lincoln represented Elliott, and at one point the case was ordered to be arbitrated. Lincoln and Josiah Lamborn, Kelly's lawyer, drew up a statement of the facts and submitted it to David A. Smith, a lawyer of Jacksonville, for arbitration. Smith ruled that Elliott was authorized to retain the control of the fund during Maria's minority. This document is the respondent's statement, signed by Elliott, and witnessed on 26 March 1846 by John Calhoun. On the back of the last page A. M. Heslep, representing the complainant, asks satisfaction of the Circuit Court of Sangamon County, charging that "the answer of complainant is insufficient untrue & evasive." John Calhoun had been Lincoln's chief when he was a surveyor.	Elliott, Andrew -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Trials, litigation, etc.

40.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	Papers relating to Mary A. Stevens, 1864.	Letter of introduction and safe-conduct pass for Mary A. Stevens, who wished to go through Union lines to Houston to dispose of property there. The first item is a secretarial letter to Lincoln from Andrew Johnson, then military governor of Tennessee and Lincoln's running mate, dated 31 October, introducing Mrs. Stevens and requesting that she be given a pass. The original envelope is present. The pass itself is an ADS by Lincoln on a small card, dated 14 November.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Stevens, Mary A. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.