Lot #30

[Abraham Lincoln Inaugural Address]: New York Herald, March 5, 1865 - "With malice toward none"

Description

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds"

Complete 8-page rare issue of the New York Herald, March 5, 1865, reporting on the second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln the day before, March 4, 1865. The full inaugural address is reported on the front page containing the immortal and iconic phrase “with malice towards none.” An extract worth quoting is as follows: “On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one would make war rather than let the nation survive , and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and then the war came… With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” In fine condition.

Auction Info

• Auction Title: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring Civil War and Abraham Lincoln
• Dates: March 14, 2025 - April 09, 2025