just a single sheet (printed on both sides) from the August 7, 1860 New York Herald (not the complete newspaper). FOLDED MULTIPLE TIMES, has tears. ... Here is a partial translation of the Lincoln article - The Prospect of Lincoln's Election—The Duty of the Opposing Candidates. The election of Abraham Lincoln as our next President is now generally conceded to be inevitable. To be sure, the republican party, which cannot command an electoral vote in the Southern States, is a minority party in the Northern States, and with the concentration of the forces opposed to it, this party could easily be driven from the field. But while it is united like a Macedonian phalanx, the superior numbers of the opposition are divided into several hostile camps, apparently more intent upon the destruction of each other than upon the defeat of the common enemy. The Douglas organs and orators, right and left, are denouncing the Breckinridge ticket as the disunion ticket, the party supporting it as the Southern disunion party, and Mr. Buchanan is charged with being a mere instrument of mischief in the hands of the Southern fire-eaters. On the other hand, the organs and orators of the Breckinridge faction repudiate Douglas as a trickster and a traitor, and a semi-abolitionist, playing away his hopes, his fortunes and his followers, into the receiving basket of the republican church. Mr. Douglas, meantime, is on his travels, here speaking to a boisterous company of serenaders, there to the curious population of a country village, and next at a Yankee clambake, and everywhere, on all occasions, and for all diseases of the body politic, advertising and recommending.... ... code Jsb 334