1860 ABRAHAM LINCOLN - DRED SCOTT. Rare Anti-Lincoln Broadside Accusing Him of not being Anti-Slavery &c.

An exceptional example of a scarce anti-Lincoln broadside with an inferior example held at the Library of Congress as part of the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana. The present double-sided broadside, measuring 10.5 x 14 inches, is the speech in full of Massachusetts Representative and Senator, Robert Winthrop. Winthrop had replaced Webster in the Senate after he was all but run off by abolitionists. Winthrop, also a pragmatist on the issue of slavery ,proved no more popular.  By the time Lincoln was seeking the nomination in 1860, Withrop was still convinced the abolitionists were on the wrong side of history.  He threw his support behind Constitutional Union Party candidate, John Bell, who he here compares favorably against Lincoln. Winthrop was a formidable public orator, being chosen to speak at the dedication of both the Franklin statue in Boston and the Washington Monument. Here he levels his speech against the candidacy of Lincoln. He accuses the abolitionists of com