8vo. A single folded sheet, 8pp., disbound. 

"NO FRIENDS TO REWARD AND NO ENEMIES TO PUNISH."

A rare campaign leaflet in which Washburne, who would later serve as Secretary of War in the Grant administration, presents quotations from Lincoln's public speeches, including the Lincoln Douglas debates, and featuring the Republican platform adopted by the Chicago Convention on 17 May 1860.  Washburne praises Lincoln as a candidate who sprang "from the humblest ranks in life, and unaided by the adventitious supports of family or wealth, Mr. Lincoln has reached his present exalted position by the strength of his will, the power of his intellect, and the honesty of his heart." He promises: "Mr. Lincoln has been but little in public life, and he will come into the Presidential chair 'fresh from the people,' with 'no friends to reward and no enemies to punish.'" Monaghan 87; Wessen, Campaign Lives of Abraham Lincoln 4v ("the most meritorious of the campaign lives of 1860...drawn principally from the author's own intimate knowledge of Lincoln's career"). RARE.