There is no need to repeat many of them here, but a few will indicate their tone.

The _Times_ greeted the news with an assertion that this was a final desperate play by Lincoln, as hope of victory waned.

It was his "last card[926]," a phrase that caught the fancy of lesser papers and was repeated by them.

October 21, appeared the "strongest" of the _Times_ editorials: [Illustration: ABE LINCOLN'S LAST CARD; OR, ROUGE-ET-NOIR.

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