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Sep 8, 2017 - Sep 9, 2017
National Intelligencer. Washington, DC, April 16, 1861. Vol. LXII, No. 9,152. 4pp, 19 x 24 in.
First printing of Lincoln's first call for 75,000 troops and for a special session of Congress.
[I] hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union, to the aggregate number of seventy-five thousand, in order to suppress said combinations [of seceding states], and to cause the laws to be duly executed.
I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular Government, and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.
I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth will probably be to repossess the forts, places, and property which have been seized from the Union; and in every event the utmost care will be observed, consistently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any destruction of or interference with property, or any disturbance of peaceful citizens in any part of the country.
On either side of this are reports on the surrender of Fort Sumter and the departure from the fort of Major Anderson and his men. Under the title "Effect of the News from Charleston" are various States' responses, from making it illegal to accept a military commission from an enemy of the United States (Pennsylvania) to the offer of troops (several states) to a statement of sympathy from Nova Scotia on the bombardment of Fort Sumter. More views of the Charleston Harbor situation continue on page 4.
Interestingly, at the bottom of the first page are 3 lines for the sale of three volumes of Audubon's Quadrupeds of North America. Immediately above that is a paragraph that suggests oil production in Pennsylvania would reach two or three million dollars in that year, and special railroad lines were being planned to transport it. Dependence on petroleum begins (in time for the war effort).
Folds as expected. A bit of scuffing and short margin tears along long open side, not extending into text. Some surface soil along folds.
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