Category: Feature

The Cooper Union Speech – February 27, 1860 The stakes were high for Abraham Lincolns first political speech in New York City… View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and New York

Arrival in New York City Before the Cooper Union Speech “On that famous visit no one met Lincoln when he stepped off the ferry at Cortlandt Street. Instead, he unobtrusively found his own way to the Astor House.” View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and New York

Before the Cooper Union Speech The Cooper Union speech offered Mr. Lincoln an opportunity to define himself before the Eastern mandarins of the Republican Party and to show them that a Westerner had the gravitas to be a presidential contender. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and New York

August Belmont (1816-1890) The group of New York Democrats with whom August Belmont was associated was called the “Silk Stockings.” View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and New York

Samuel L. M. Barlow (1826-1889) Mitchell Barlow “…was a rising young corporation lawyer in Wall Street” when he met George B. McClellan in 1854. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and New York

New York Democrats “If there is any other gang of hogs more equally divided than the Democrats of New York are at this time, I have not heard of it.” View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and New York

Thurlow Weed (1797-1882) William H. Seward once said that “Weed is Seward, and Seward is Weed, each approves what the other says or does.” View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and New York

Abram Wakeman (1824-1889) Abram Wakeman was “affable, insinuating and pleasant, though not profound not reliable…” View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and New York

James S. Wadsworth (1807-1864) James S. Wadsworth was an unlikely soldier and a somewhat improbable politician. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and New York

George Opdyke (1805-1880) George Opdyke was a fighter…. He “had risen from a journeyman tailor in New Orleans to be one of New York’s wealthy merchants.” View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and New York