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1868WRCAM48472Brooklyn: D.S. Holmes 1868. Broadside 13 x 10 inches. Some small tears chipping and loss at top and right edges. Minor foxing. Very good. Broadside printed for the U.S. Presidential Campaign of 1868 which pitted former New York governor Horatio Seymour against Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. This broadside points out Seymour's Copperhead tendencies and statements made by him in 1864 linking him to similar sentiments made by the notorious traitor Benedict Arnold. Seymour's Copperhead utterances during the war haunted his campaign and he lost decisively to Grant. The text printed here strives to demonstrate: <br> <br> ".the points made by Horatio Seymour against the Administration in 1864 are identical point by point with those made by Benedict Arnold against Washington and the Continental Congress in 1780.The Copperhead chiefs of these times who draw so lavishly upon the sophistries and fallacies of 1780 for the furtherance of their factious designs cannot too well understand that the sequel to all this is endless disgrace. They must not expect to fight the Government with weapons of the Tories and of the blue-light Federalists without sharing the same fate." D.S. Holmes unknown books
188036539Concord NH 1880. Broadside 11-3/8" x 15-1/4". Printed in a variety of type sizes and fonts. Bit of wrinkling else Very Good. <br/><br/> General James Garfield was the Republicans' 1880 presidential candidate; General Winfield Scott Hancock ran for the Democrats. Garfield's supporters claim here that protective tariffs "favor American labor." Garfield's laudable support for tariffs is contrasted with the views of Hancock and his party. Reduction or elimination of tariffs would "be a movement to equalize wages here with the lowest prevailing in the Old World."<br/> We suggest a New Hampshire imprint because that State's Democratic candidate for Governor Frank Jones is pilloried here for opposing protective legislation.<br/>Not located on OCLC or the online sites of AAS New Hampshire Historical Society or Rauner Library as of April 2020. unknown books
1736633391736. Maryland Colonal Period;. Maryland Colonal Period;. Three Eighteenth-Century Works on English Election Law With an Interesting Maryland Association Great Britain. Election Law. Maryland Colonial Period. Orders and Resolutions of the Honourable House of Commons On Controverted Elections and Returns: Determining the Qualifications of Candidates and Voters; The Rights of Election for the Several Cities and Boroughs; The Nature of Evidence Proper on the Hearing; And the Duty of Returning Officers. The Statutes in Force Concerning Elections Are Also Pointed Out Under Proper Heads. With Additions. London: Printed for J. Stagg 1736. ix i 3-48-48 49-209 8 pp. Bound With The Statutes at Large Concerning Elections of Members to Serve in the House of Commons; Containing A Compleat Collection of All the Acts of Parliament Now in Force Which Relate Thereto Continued to the End of the Last Session of Parliament 1734. London: Printed by John Baskett Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty And Sold by Him Robert Gosling in Fleetstteet sic and John Stagg in Westminster-Hall 1734. vi 73 64-109 17 10 pp. The text is continuous despite pagination. And Cowley John Attributed. The Candidates Guide: Or The Electors Rights Decided. Shewing the Determination of the Rights of Elections By the Hon'ble the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament In All Contraverted Elections for the Counties and Boroughs in South Britain From the Year 1624 to 1730. Corrected and Improved. To Which is Added The Like Determinations in Contraverted Elections for North Britain Since the Union. With Several Resolutions and Standing Orders Relating to Elections Qualifications Returns Petitions and Proceedings in General. Together with the Head of the Statutes Now in Force Concerning the Same; And Several Adjusted Cases in Disputed Points of Admitting of Evidence on Hearings at the Bar of the House. The Whole Digested into Alphabetical Order With Proper References and Genuine Quotations. London: Printed for J. Brindley in New Bond-Street And Sold by Mrs. Dodd Without Temple-Bar And by the Booksellers of London and Westminster: Likewise in Most Great Towns in England 1735. 64 pp. 12mo. 6" x 4". Contemporary calf gilt spine with raised bands and lettering pieces. Moderate rubbing to extremities with some wear to spine ends unknown books
182835196Bangor 1828. Folio broadside 9-1/4" x 20". Matted hinged at upper edge. Printed in three full columns. A few old folds Very Good.<br/><br/> The Convention met in Bangor on July 9 1828. After endorsing candidates for various State offices the Convention issued and printed its 'Address. to the Electors of the Counties of Somerset and Penobscot' focusing on the upcoming presidential contest. Praising the incumbent John Quincy Adams the Address proclaims "It is sufficient to say of him that talents of the highest order are joined to uncommon attainments. We would ask you to turn from the rantings of demagogues the bold fictions of an irresponsible press. Is not our country moving on peacefully and prosperously in the great march of improvement" <br/> Adams's opponent General Jackson is unsuited for the presidency: "His character has been formed as a military chieftain. He is rash headstrong impetuous and unreflecting-- that he knows no law but his own will." Example after example demonstrates Jackson's unfitness<br/>Not in American Imprints Sabin Wise & Cronin Jackson Adams or on the online sites of OCLC AAS Harvard Boston Athenaeum Bowdoin U Maine as of July 2018. unknown books
1863WRCAM53688Winchester 1863. Broadside 5 x 3 3/4 inches. Toned minor soiling and wrinkling. Very good. An exceedingly rare Confederate Tennessee state election ticket from 1863 nominating Robert L. Caruthers for governor and eleven others as state senators. In 1863 state elections were due in Tennessee. The state was fractured by war and secession and both Unionists and Confederates expressed the desire to hold elections for state government. Confederate supporters held a convention in Winchester and nominated a governor the State Legislature and members for the Confederate Congress. It was a bit of a fool's errand. <br> <br> Isham G. Harris who still considered himself the governor of Tennessee issued a proclamation calling for the election to be held on the first Thursday in August. Just who voted and how many or how few will probably never be known. According to historians the State Archives in Nashville are scant and inconclusive; returns from only thirty-two counties are found some of which reported the vote of only one civil district. Not a single report was from West Tennessee counties and only eight Middle Tennessee counties made returns. Robert L. Caruthers was elected governor on the face of returns but he was never inaugurated and thus never served a day as governor of Tennessee. No Confederate State Legislature ever convened either. The Confederate Congressmen were the only lucky ones. Those who were elected in 1863 took their seats in Richmond however briefly. <br> <br> George Webb notes this copy in his NOT IN ALLEN bibliography in 2013. Not in Parrish & Willingham. The only other copy or shall we say copies resides at the Library of Virginia in an uncut sheet of six tickets. This will likely be the only copy ever available in the marketplace. WEBB NOT IN ALLEN 199 this copy. unknown books
182334261Raleigh 1823. 15 1 blank pp. Caption title as issued. Disbound. Scattered light and moderate foxing. Good. <br/><br/> Signed at the end in type: "November 1823. CAROLINA." An extremely scarce pro-Calhoun anti-Crawford piece for the 1824 presidential election. When Calhoun decided to seek the presidency in 1824 "both Crawford and Adams the acknowledged front-runners felt betrayed" Crawford because Calhoun had reportedly assured him that he would defer to the older man and wait his turn; and Adams because Calhoun had said that "for the good of the country.the next President should come from the North." Peterson THE GREAT TRIUMVIRATE 116. <br/>Miles 3. Thornton 1750. AI 12071 1- DLC. OCLC 42212191 3- NYHS Duke UNC as of February 2021. unknown books
186436781New York 1864. Broadside 9" x 8-3/8." Lightly foxed. lower margin browned Good<br/><br/> McClellan the 1864 Democratic Party presidential candidate is depicted as a lion. His running mate George Pendleton as a lamb; and a wizard-like Sammy Barlow as their handler. "Sammy Barlow" is Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow 1826-1889 an owner of the New York World newspaper a successful lawyer and a noisy Democrat-Copperhead. He is occasionally called "Sammy Barlow" in satiric verse "the great peace-shrieker of New York city" vociferously advocating a Copperhead platform Philadelphia Evening Telegraph 24 September 1864.<br/>Not in Reilly or Weitenkampf. Located at the online sites of Library Company of Philadelphia Brown University and Free Library of Philadelphia which identifies the artist as Henry Louis Stephens a New Yorker . OCLC 77530460 1- Lincoln Pres. Lib. as of June 2020. unknown books
193624942<p>This sheet contains five rough sketches of graphics calling on the workers and voters of America to support Franklin D. Roosevelt's reelection in 1936. They did in record numbers.</p> <b>PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1936.</b>Typed Document Signed. Artwork by Franz Felix and Ideas and Copy by Richard Barron "Set of Rough Sketches Containing Some Suggested Promotion Ideas to be Used in the 1936 Democratic Presidential Campaign" July 2 1936. 1 p. 12 x 10½ in.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Excerpts:</b></p><p>"<i>1. Sounding the call against 'economic royalists' in the spirit of 1776.</i>"</p><p>"<i>2. Appropriating the well-known symbol of violence</i> upraised fist<i> diverting it to peaceful democratic use. To include the farmer phrase the appeal: TOILERS OF AMERICA – UNITE FOR ROOSEVELT.</i>"</p><p>"<i>3. The statue of 'The Thinker' as a symbol of the man today who thinks the toiler with brawn and brain.everyman.</i>"</p><p>"<i>4. Direct appeal to radical labor and leftists in general.</i>"</p><p>"<i>5. Another way of appealing to the working class men and women.</i>"</p><p>"<i>This collaborative effort respectfully submitted for consideration to the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Mr. James A. Farley.</i>"</p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>After unseating incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover in 1932 President Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for reelection in 1936. His Republican opponent was Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. Although the Great Depression had entered its eighth year Roosevelt's New Deal policies were broadly popular. He won the highest share of the popular and electoral vote since the uncontested 1820 election. Roosevelt attracted more than 60 percent of the popular vote and won the electoral votes of 46 states; Landon won the electoral votes of only Maine and Vermont.</p><p>Democratic Party chairman James Farley had predicted that Roosevelt would lose only Maine and Vermont. After the results of the 1936 election Farley quipped that the nation needed to revise the conventional political wisdom of "As Maine goes so goes the nation" to "As Maine goes so goes Vermont."</p><p>These ideas for campaign imagery employed or modified common images to support Roosevelt's campaign. One drew on the imagery of artist Archibald Willard's 1875 painting <i>The Spirit of '76</i> and employed three figures of workers to match the subjects of Willard's image. Another appropriated the upraised fist as a symbol of violence and repurposed it as a symbol of defiant unity against "<i>economic royalists</i>." A third used an image of <i>The Thinker</i>by French sculptor Auguste Rodin 1840-1917 to appeal to thinking voters. Another image appeals to the fears of radicals that the alternative to Roosevelt is "<i>Reaction</i>."</p><p>Richard Barron and artist Franz Felix submitted these ideas to Democratic National Committee chairman James A. Farley on July 2 1936 three weeks before the Democratic Party held its convention in Philadelphia. There is no evidence that these images were used in the campaign and it is possible that Farley rejected them. At the end of the campaign the Democratic National Committee had a campaign deficit of approximately $850000. To help offset those expenses the treasurer convinced President Roosevelt to sign 2500 brief Forewords which were bound into <i>The Democratic Book 1936</i> and sent to donors of $250. Purchases brought in more than $400000 for the party and led Republicans to charge corrupt practices for allowing corporations to contribute to the campaign by buying copies.</p><p><b>Franz Felix</b> 1892-1967 was born in Vienna Austria and developed an ability as a child to draw portraits in charcoal. He studied portraiture in Vienna and immigrated to the United States shortly after World War I. He settled in San Francisco where he established himself as a portrait artist and commercial illustrator. In the late 1920s he moved to New York and established a studio in the suburb of Spring Valley where he produced book and magazine illustrations. During World War II he painted a series of murals of wartime activities of Spring Valley residents.</p><p><b>James A. Farley</b> 1888-1976 was born in New York into an Irish Catholic family. After his father died he helped his mother with a small business to support the family. After graduating from Packard Business College in New York City where he studied bookkeeping and other business skills Farley got a job with the U.S. Gypsum Corporation. He served as a Democratic town clerk in Stony Point New York and became chairman of the county's Democratic Party in 1918. He organized upstate Democrats and helped elect Alfred E. Smith as Governor that year. He served in the New York State Assembly in 1923 but was defeated at the next election for supporting the repeal of Prohibition. As chair of the state Athletic Commission Farley fought for the civil rights of African American athletes. Farley founded he General Builders Corporation from smaller firms to become New York City's largest building supply company. Farley directed Franklin D. Roosevelt's narrowly successful New York gubernatorial campaign in 1928 and his reelection in 1930. Farley served as chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee from 1930 to 1944 and helped build the national New Deal coalition that elected Roosevelt to the Presidency four times. In 1932 Farley became the chairman of the Democratic National Committee and in 1933 U.S. Postmaster General. He held both positions until 1940. Farley and Roosevelt broke on the two-term tradition of the Presidency in 1940 and he later helped propose the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution limiting a person to two elections as president approved by Congress in 1947 and ratified in 1951. Farley became chairman of the board of the Coca-Cola Export Corporation in 1940 and held that position for more than thirty years.</p> books
185236045Boston: Boston Commonwealth. Extra. 1852. Broadsheet 21-3/4" x 16". Recto printed in three columns; verso printed in five columns. Untrimmed light edge wear a few spots and old folds with several light crimps and one or two small separations at fold intersection affecting three or four letters. Good. "Boston Commonwealth. Extra." at head of title.<br/><br/> The broadsheet a dramatic illustration of the growing split in the Democratic Party supports the "Free Democratic" Party led by Senator John Hale of New Hampshire and George Julian of Indiana. A precursor of the Republican Party the Free Democratic Party was created by Northern Democrats who broke with the national Democratic Party which was dominated by southern pro-slavery men. The Free Democrats pledged "NO MORE SLAVE STATES NO SLAVE TERRITORY NO NATIONALIZED SLAVERY and NO NATIONAL LEGISLATION FOR THE EXTRADITION OF SLAVES." That bold promise is contrasted with the temporizing pro-slavery Platforms of the two major Parties-- the "Compromise Democratic Nominations" of Franklin Pierce; and the Whigs headed by Winfield Scott.<br/> The verso is headed in bold type: "The Fugitive Slave Law! America's Bill of Abominations!!" Its text with the signature in bold type of President Millard Fillmore is printed in five columns at the top half of the verso. The lower half is an address by "Alexander" "To the People of the United States!--- The Issue before the Nation!" Unlike the Whigs and Democrats the "Free Democracy will favor the early policy of the country to limit localize and discourage slavery. the immediate repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law." The Free Democratic Platform is printed along with that of the Democrats and Whigs. <br/>OCLC 83679097 2- NYHS Peabody-Essex 45737584 2- Boston Public Wellesley as of October 2019. Not located at the online site of AAS. Boston Commonwealth... Extra. unknown books
1856WRCAM53064Suffield Ct 1856. Broadside 17 x 10 1/2 inches visible area. Matted and framed. Light dampstaining at top edge light foxing. Very good. An attractive broadside advertisement that promotes a meeting of James Buchanan supporters the "Keystone Club" in Suffield Connecticut on Sept. 27 1856. The poster promises a number of speeches against the candidate of the newly-formed Republican Party John C. Fremont that assert the complicity of his supporters in the violence roiling Kansas. The key and virulent disagreement between the Democratic party for whom Buchanan was the nominee and the Republicans was over the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the issue of popular sovereignty which would allow the residents of new states to vote on the existence of slavery within their borders. This broadside accuses anti-slavery and pro-Fremont partisans in Kansas of fomenting violence there for political gain. The text reads in full: <br> <br> "Messrs. A.G. Howard C.W. Philleo and others will address the Keystone Club at the Town Hall in Suffield on Saturday Eve'g Sept. 27 1856. We make the charge that the troubles in Kansas are encouraged and kept alive by the supporters of Freemont sic in the hope of gaining political capital. And we can prove the charge!" <br> <br> The text is headed by an American eagle gripping arrows and olive branch in the style of the Great Seal. OCLC records only two copies of this interesting broadside at the Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut State Library. unknown books
186836501New York: Currier & Ives 1868. Lithograph illustrated broadside by Currier & Ives oblong 11" x 15-1/2". Matted. Light dusting Near Fine. Cartoon characters identified by name; in lower right corner "on Stone by Cameron." John Cameron was a talented artist employed at Currier & Ives. In lower left corner "Thos. Worth. Sketch." Worth designed many cartoon broadsides for Currier & Ives. <br/><br/> "An election-year cartoon invoking both Grant's humble beginnings as a tanner and his successful Civil War military career. Popular New York governor John Thompson Hoffman dressed as an Indian the 'Great Sachem of Tammany' presents Democratic candidates Horatio Seymour and Francis P. Blair Jr. to Grant. He addresses Grant 'Here General is a couple more hides to be tanned when will they be done' Grant smokes a cigar and wears the leather apron of a tanner rolled-up sleeves exposing his muscular arms. He replies 'Well I'll finish them off early in November.' <br/> "At right corner former Confederate generals Robert E. Lee Simon Bolivar Buckner and John C. Pemberton hold their rumps and hop about in pain. They announce 'This is to Certify that we have had our hides tanned and that the work was by him thoroughly done." Reilly AAS's entry asserts "Issued well before 1868 election." <br/>Reilly 1868-11. Weitenkampf 159. OCLC 191119896 2- AAS Villanova as of January 2020. Currier & Ives unknown books
1828WRCAM56438N.p. 1828. Broadside 20 3/4 x 14 inches. Old folds small closed tears along most folds some separation at center fold. Residue and mild staining from previous tape repairs one older tape repair still in place. Minor edge wear and a few small chips even tanning. About very good. One version of the infamous "Coffin Broadsides" attacking Andrew Jackson in the presidential campaign of 1828. There was considerable mud-slinging between the Jackson and Adams camps during that campaign which eventually saw the defeat of incumbent John Quincy Adams and the election of Andrew Jackson. Across the top of the present broadside are six woodcut coffins bearing the names of six militiamen shot for mutiny on Jackson's orders during the War of 1812; an account of their wrongful execution follows. Below that there are more accounts of Jackson's evil and murderous deeds including twelve regular soldiers shot for desertion despite their "not guilty" pleas complete with twelve more coffin woodcuts; Jackson assaulting another man Samuel Jackson in the streets of Nashville and running him through with a sword while Samuel bent over to pick up a rock for defense with a woodcut of a demonic Jackson committing the murderous act; the tale of another soldier unfairly executed another woodcut coffin; and a brief account of some Indian prisoners executed on Jackson's orders four more coffins. The bottom portion includes a testimonial by Thomas Hart Benton who himself had fought a duel with Jackson. <br> <br> The "Coffin Handbill" was printed and reprinted in several sizes and formats. Sabin quotes John Spencer Bassett in his LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON who notes that the "execution of mutinous militiamen in the campaigns of 1813 and 1814 was recalled to show Jackson's ferocious temper; and when a Philadelphia editor published a hand-bill showing a coffin with the victims standing by its side the idea was caught up eagerly and repeated in all parts of the country." SABIN 86569. OCLC 18042341 45888498. unknown books
1828WRCAM56513N.p. 1828. Broadsheet 19 x 9 inches text printed in two columns on both sides. Old folds some chips to edges minor loss to upper left corner and closed tear to bottom edge no text affected. Two small holes affecting just one word a few areas of soiling light foxing even tanning. Manuscript annotations to verso. About very good. A rare broadside recounting Andrew Jackson's infamous execution of Private John Woods published in 1828 by Jackson's opponents during the 1828 election. There was considerable mud-slinging between the Jackson and Adams camps during that campaign which eventually saw the defeat of incumbent John Quincy Adams and the election of Andrew Jackson. This dense broadside recounts the events of March 1814 at Fort Strother during the Creek Campaign when Jackson charged John Woods an eighteen year-old militiaman with disobedience disrespect and mutiny. According to the text the trial itself only occurred because Jackson's soldiers would not shoot Woods' at the moment of the offense despite Jackson's cries to "Shoot the damned rascal!.blow ten balls through the damned rascal!" The court martial followed soon after; Woods was found guilty and sentenced to die. Some testimonies here state that Jackson offered to spare Woods' life if he would enlist in the regular army but Woods refused; others disagree. He was executed thirty-six hours later. <br> <br> Then follows the sworn testimony of several witnesses: Thomas Couch Robert Ferguson Samuel Hanna George A. Brock Isaac Roberts James Harris William Stewart Joseph Alexander Isaac Anderson Abm. Whitney and John Williams all fellow-soldiers of Woods who witnessed or had personal knowledge of the facts in the case. Their accounts of Woods' supposed mutiny substantially downplay the severity of Woods' disobedience suggesting that it was likely a misunderstanding; they also emphasize the draconian nature of the punishment and make several mentions of Woods' aging and infirm parents. Williams' account closes: "It is not true that Woods on the ground of Execution with oaths and defiance refused to promise obedience. On the contrary he wept loud and bitterly." All of the testimonies are datelined in Tennessee in the first few months of 1828. The nature of the printing lends itself to the possibility of a Tennessee press. <br> <br> Though not as famous as the "Coffin Handbills" that appeared at the same time listing Woods' execution among many other crimes by Jackson this was definitely addressed to the same audiences. John Spencer Bassett in his LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON notes that the "execution of mutinous militiamen in the campaigns of 1813 and 1814 was recalled to show Jackson's ferocious temper; and when a Philadelphia editor published a hand-bill showing a coffin with the victims standing by its side the idea was caught up eagerly and repeated in all parts of the country." <br> <br> Not in Wise & Cronin and we could find no listing for this broadside in OCLC or in American Imprints. It has only appeared at auction twice and then not since 1925 when Anderson Galleries offered a copy as part of the sale of the Henry De Puy collection which was strong in Andrew Jackson material. The only copy in the trade seems to be one offered by the Eberstadts in 1939. unknown books
1788WRCAM52937Portsmouth N.H. 1788. Broadsheet approximately 14 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches. Previously folded with one small hole at lower central fold line. Slight curling at edges very light tanning and foxing. Very good. A rare broadsheet calling for New Hampshire representatives to be appointed to the Electoral College for the first presidential election under the Constitution in 1788. On Sept. 13 1788 Congress passed a resolution that electors should be appointed and in response this November 12 act of the New Hampshire legislature declared December 15 as the date to elect the state's representatives to both houses of Congress and to determine its electors for the Electoral College. New Hampshire was the first of the ten states that had ratified the Constitution at this point to hold its federal elections. We locate only two other copies at the American Antiquarian Society and Dartmouth. BRISTOL B6753. WHITTEMORE NEW HAMPSHIRE 458. unknown books
