[RARE FIRST PRINTING OF TWO OF PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FINAL THREE PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATIONS]

Lincoln, Abraham

Verlag: Washington, D.C., 1865

Broadside, 13 x 8 1/4 inches. Faint dust-soiling, minor edge wear, with a few short marginal tears repaired on verso. Very good. A rare first broadside printing announcing two of President Lincoln's three final proclamations, "Closing Certain Ports" and "Port of Key West to Remain Open," both issued on April 11, 1865. President Lincoln issued these proclamations just three days before he was cut down by assassin John Wilkes Booth. Both proclamations are signed in type by Lincoln and Secretary of State William H. Seward. The first proclamation, "Closing Certain Ports," shut down a large number of Confederate ports, all listed on the proclamation, and indicates that "all rights of importation, warehousing, and other privileges, shall, in respect to the ports aforesaid, cease until they have again been opened by order of the President; and if, while said ports are closed, any ship or vessel from beyond the United States, or having on board any articles subject to duties, shall attempt to enter any such port, the same, together with its tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargo shall be forfeited to the United States." It was President Lincoln's 126th proclamation. The second proclamation, "Port of Key West to Remain Open," was issued to amend the previous proclamation. It states that "the port of Key West, in the state of Florida, was inadvertently included among those which are not open to commerce" and declares that "said port of Key West is and shall remain open to foreign and domestic commerce." It was President Lincoln's 127th proclamation. These two documents constitute the antepenultimate and penultimate proclamations issued by President Lincoln; his last, entitled "Claiming Equality of Rights with All Maritime Nations," was promulgated the same day. An important pair of proclamations, among the last acts of the Great Emancipator before his untimely demise. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM53482

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Titel: [RARE FIRST PRINTING OF TWO OF PRESIDENT ...
Verlag: Washington, D.C.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1865