Lincoln re-election speech to be auctioned in NYC

Proceeds from the sale will go toward a new wing for the library, located in New York’s Finger Lakes region. (Southworth Library Association in Dryden, N.Y.)

Christie’s is auctioning a handwritten copy of the 1864 speech Abraham Lincoln delivered at the White House after being re-elected in the midst of an unpopular Civil War that both he and his opponents believed might cost him his job.

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