Lincolns
The stamps on the third row commemorate Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States. The first one depicts a series of debates in 1858 between Senator Stephen Douglas and Lincoln. This was before Lincoln became president, when he sought to be elected a Senator from Illinois. He lost the election, but the debates won him national attention because of his opposition to allowing a recent law allowing slavery in Kansas and Nebraska, then territories of the U.S. His position helped to solidify the opposition to slavery, the Abolishionists – and also the slaveholder factions. He went on to run for president and win at the end of 1860.
The slavery states were convinced that the tide was against them and that Lincoln and the other states would amend the U.S. Constitution to outlaw slavery. However, Lincoln’s position was that the states that joined the union with slavery could not have it revoked. On that basis, after the Civil War, it was stipulated that the Confederate states could not rejoin the union unless they first outlawed slavery in their territory.
What triggered the war, incidentally, was not that the U.S. sought to end slavery or to capture the seceded states. Instead, it was that the Confederates attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina. They assumed incorrectly that the U.S. troops that were still located in Confederate territory intended to attack them. That was not their intention. It takes time to remove troops from an area. What made it even more ridiculous was that attacking troops in a fortified position was unlikely to succeed. The secession and the war was unnecessary and both were due to assumptions, prejudices, and inpatience.
Note
This album page includes the stamp I used for the sub-album cover page – the stamp at the end of the fourth row about forest conservation. That stamp is one of the first multiple color stamps printed in the U.S. It’s the start of more colorful stamps. In time, stamps will begin to involve so much color they’ll be photographs. I don’t like that level. I prefer this amount of color and hand drawn or painted art over photographs.
Contains 17 spots: own 17 – 17 unused, 0 used.
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Album or Web Page Last changed Apr 24, 2025
Stamp Details
The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.
spot |
own |
catalog |
subject |
description |
comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
✓ |
1104 |
3c (apr 1958) |
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✓ |
1105 |
3c (apr 1958) |
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✓ |
1107 |
3c (may 1958) |
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✓ |
1106 |
3c (may 1958) |
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✓ |
1112 |
4c (aug 1958) |
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✓ |
1108 |
3c (jun 1958) |
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✓ |
1115 |
4c (aug 1958) |
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✓ |
1113 |
Lincoln |
1c (feb 1959) |
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✓ |
1114 |
Lincoln |
3c (feb 1959) |
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✓ |
1116 |
Statue of Lincoln |
4c (may 1959) |
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✓ |
1100 |
3c (mar 1958) |
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✓ |
1109 |
3c (jun 1958) |
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✓ |
1119 |
4c (sep 1958) |
Other
✓ |
1122 |
4c (oct 1958) |
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✓ |
1120 |
4c (oct 1958) |
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✓ |
1121 |
4c (oct 1958) |
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✓ |
1123 |
4c (nov 1958) |
Footnotes
Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.
