Addresses Delivered at the Lincoln Dinners of the Republican Club of the City of New York in Response to the Toast: Abraham Lincoln, 1887-1909
New York: Privately printed for the Republican Club of the City of New York, 1909. Hardcover. frontis, 358p. Blue cloth. 24cm. Some cover spotting, soiling, and uneven fading. Insect-damage at edges of backstrip label. Top edge spotted. A few small tears in front endpaper. Edge-tears, minor wrinkling, and/or small corner-chip in a few text-leaves. A few leaves unopened. Overall a good copy. Out of series unnumbered copy of an edition limited to 500 numbered copies. Includes (at pages 315-326) a speech delivered by Washington at the Twenty-Third Annual Lincoln Dinner which celebrated the 100th anniversary of Lincoln's birth (February 12, 1909). The Appendix includes a speech by Theodore Roosevelt (pages 341-353) while President of the United States at one of those Lincoln Day dinners. TR spoke partly on the "race problem" and assigned part of the blame for white racism on African Americans, saying: "Laziness and shiftlessness, these, and, above all, vice and criminality of every kind, are evils more potent for harm to the black race than all acts of oppression of white men put together. The colored man who fails to condemn crime in another colored man, who fails to co-operate in all lawful ways in bringing colored criminals to justice, is the worst enemy of his own people, as well as an enemy to all the people." Good. Item #43990
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