Preservation of the Union

Emancipation or Preservation of the Union?
The New York Times
(New York, August 25, 1862)
Serial & Government Publications Division (235)

A letter from President Lincoln that appears on the front page of the August 25, 1862, New York Times was written in response to Horace Greeley's New York Tribune (August 20, 1862) editorial entitled "The Prayer of Twenty Millions," in which he beseeched the President to free the slaves at once. The Times, one of the leading Republican papers of the country, was unwavering in its determination that the Federal union should be preserved. It is not surprising that Lincoln sent his letter to the New York Times for publication.

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