Address of the Cameron and Lincoln Club of the City of Chicago, Ill., to the People of the North West.

£6,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Important and desirable: a rare printed example proposing Abraham Lincoln for the Vice Presidency on a ticket headed by Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania for the November, 1860 election . This “may prove to be one of the most desirable Lincoln rarities,” and “apparently is the earliest of the 1860 campaign documents which proposed the name of Abraham Lincoln as a candidate at the Chicago Convention. It may also be recognized as the first pamphlet to present a biographical sketch of Mr. Lincoln” (Warren). Charles Leib (1826-1865) was the architect behind the Cameron and Lincoln Club. Leib had a varied career as a doctor, newspaper editor, miner and government official. Having trained in Philadelphia, he seemingly abandoned medicine in 1856 when he moved to Illinois and established the Democratic Bugle which supported James Buchanan’s presidential campaign. A falling out with Buchanan led to a change of affiliation and “he became active in Illinois as a promoter of the Republican presidential candidacy of Simon Cameron, like Leib another former Democrat. He became known as Cameron’s ‘chief bugler in the West,’ and he made local arrangements for Pennsylvania’s Cameron-favoring delegation at the Chicago Republican nominating convention. Presuming that Lincoln would be an ideal running mate for Cameron, Leib established a Cameron and Lincoln Club in Chicago. He is said to have pressed the case for such an alignment to Lincoln personally, claiming that the Republicans could not win the

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