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THE LINCOLN CATECHISM WHEREIN THE ECCENTRICITIES & BEAUTIES OF DESPOTISM ARE FULLY SET FORTH. GUIDE TO THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1864
1864réf. 42194New York: J.F. Feeks Publisher 1864. Stitched. 46 2 publ. advts. Original printed wrappers the front wrapper and title page illustrated with a grotesque caricature of a Negro's face. Very Good plus. An unusually disgusting anti-Lincoln campaign document capitalizing on northern racist sentiments. Lincoln is called 'Abraham Africanus I'. His Emancipation Proclamation is ridiculed; the shifting focus of the War from a struggle to preserve the Union to a crusade against slavery is condemned; and the expansion of executive power to curtail civil liberties is denounced. The text includes "questions and sarcastic answers intended to defeat Lincoln" Monaghan. "What are the Ten Commandments Thou shalt have no other God but the negro. Thou shalt make an image of a negro and place it on the Capitol as the type of the new American man." "Strongly opposed to the election of Abraham Lincoln" Sabin Feeks the publisher was a Copperhead closely aligned with Chauncy Burr and other northern publishers of pro-slavey material. New York was "home to vigorous defenders of slavery who viewed African Americans as inferior and warned that abolition would hurt the nation's economy. Both sides took advantage of New York's role as center of publishing and the arts using the city's printing presses theaters and music halls to advocate for an end to slavery or for white supremacy" online Mus. of the City of New York ABOLISHING SLAVERY. FIRST EDITION. Monaghan 324. Bartlett 2734. Sabin 41204. J.F. Feeks, Publisher unknown
