Lincoln was not well-known. So the Republican Party published many books and pamphlets about him.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

In the North, people mourned. One man wrote: "The events of the last month or two have done more to build northern opposition to slavery than anything which has ever happened before, than all the anti-slavery pamphlets and books that have ever been written."

VOA: special.2009.07.02