Complete issue of the Worcester Daily Spy from March 6, 1865, 17.75 x 24, four pages, with coverage of the events surrounding Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration and the complete text of his second inaugural address, including a slight misquote of the famous concluding lines: "With malice toward no one [sic], with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphans; to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." Also includes articles on Civil War news, such as the capture of Confederate General Jubal Early's forces by Union General Philip Sheridan, plus local items, congressional updates, advertisements, and public postings. In very good to fine condition, some creasing, edge tears, and light dampstaining.
