Election of 1848ABAA
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184815121Columbus 1848. 6 2 blanks pp. Caption title as issued disbound. Scattered foxing. Good. <br/><br/> Ohio's Whig State Central Committee seeks to galvanize its lethargic troops for the upcoming presidential election. Zachary Taylor is as one of his letters printed here assures "A WHIG AND SHALL EVER BE DEVOTED IN INDIVIDUAL OPINION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THAT PARTY." A "decided" Whig he is "not ultra." <br/>FIRST EDITION. Morgan Collection 8256. Not in Sabin Miles Wise & Cronin Taylor Eberstadt Decker. OCLC 1035828858 1- AAS as of January 2021. Apparently the Ohio Historical Society and Western Reserve also own a copy. unknown books
185234357Washington 1852. Caption title as issued. 16pp. At head of title cuts of a farmer plowing with his team of horses; and an arm and hammer surrounded by a wreath. Disbound lightly toned or foxed else Very Good.<br/><br/> These Washington D.C. Democrats "possessed of no political suffrage ourselves" warn in this scarce campaign pamphlet against the election of Winfield Scott a career military man and the Whigs' 1852 presidential candidate. Of our past presidents "The only professional soldier was General Taylor who for upwards of forty years had devoted himself exclusively to his profession of arms. If the evils resulting from his election under which we are now suffering had tongues to speak to you you would not soon repeat that error."<br/> The enviable qualities of Franklin Pierce the Democrats' nominee and a perfect example of "the northern man with southern principles" are trumpeted. Trashing the short presidency of General Taylor the pamphlet finds telling parallels in the career of General Scott. "All who know him know his weakness his egotism his aristocratic haughtiness." To boot "General Scott's opinions on the slavery question are hostile to the interests and safety of the South and to the patriotic opinions of the northern democracy. He fraternizes with such fanatics as Seward Hale Sumner Garrison Phillips and Gerritt sic Smith." <br/>OCLC 23149127 5 as of October 2017. Not in Miles. unknown books
181228331New York: Pelsue and Gould 1812. 28pp disbound. Some toning light wear. Good.<br/><br/> Fueled by jealousy of Virginia's near-monopoly on the presidency New Yorkers urge the nomination of De Witt Clinton in order to deny President Madison a second term. The dangers of jealousy among the States require that "Virginia herself as she values the confederation should abdicate a situation which she cannot retain without wounding the feelings of her associates and weakening their attachment for our union."<br/> The Committee objects to nominations by "congressional caucus" which favors Madison. The Constitution requires that the President be chosen "by the States composing the Union in their separate sovereign capacities each state voting in the ratio of its population." The Committee also criticizes Madison's conduct of the War of 1812. The Address is signed in type at the end by 16 New Yorkers.<br/>AI 25250 7 26pp. Pelsue and Gould unknown books
181225965New York 1812. 12pp lightly tanned and light spotting faint numerical rubberstamp in blank margin of page 3. Top edge partly uncut. Good. Bound in modern quarter morocco and marbled boards bookplate on front pastedown. <br/><br/> Fueled by jealousy of Virginia's near-monopoly on the presidency New York Republicans urge the nomination of De Witt Clinton in order to deny President Madison a second term. "We are not aware of any advantage that can result by establishing the rule that every President who is not extremely disapproved of shall be re-elected." The Committee citing constitutional precedent reminds fellow Republicans that "the chief magistrate is to be chosen by the States in their seperate sic sovereign capacities" not by congressional caucuses who favor Madison. <br/> The Committee criticizes Madison's conduct of the War of 1812 particularly his failure to bring the army to a state of readiness. "Where are the marks of system or preparation" A Clinton presidency will relieve us "from the evils of an inefficient administration and of an inadequately conducted war." The Address is signed in type at the end by 17 New York City Republicans. <br/>AI 25251 3. unknown books
182828332Richmond: Printed by Samuel Shepherd & Co. 1828. 38 2 blanks pp. Stitched untrimmed partly uncut. Browned and lightly to moderately foxed. Good in its unsophisticated state. <br/><br/> This Virginia Convention of more than 200 delegates listed by County "feared the most pernicious consequences from the election of General Jackson and we have come to consult about the means of averting this calamity from our country." Although "many of you strongly disapprove some of the leading measures of the present Administration" President Adams's faults and errors are as nothing against the defects of Jackson's character which render him "altogether unfit for the presidency." An Appendix prints correspondence from Jackson's Florida campaign demonstrating his disregard for civilian authority and his arbitrary exercise of power. <br/>Swem 137. Sabin 100496. Not in Wise & Cronin or Miles. Printed by Samuel Shepherd & Co. unknown books
184028873Albany: Rough-Hewer Extra 1840. 8pp folio Extra of this short-lived New York Democratic periodical. Untrimmed and uncut generously margined. A couple of short margin fold splits light foxing. Good or so. <br/><br/> A bombastic essay charging that the Whig Party is like the wolf in sheep's clothing in reality the old Hartford Convention Federalists a bunch of Anglophiles in disguise. Their policies and their conspiratorial "scheme" with England are "dangerous to the purity of legislation hostile to the genius of a free government and directly at war with our constitution."<br/>Not in Sabin or American Imprints. OCLC 37969403 3- NYHS LCP OH Hist. Soc. as of 5/12. Rough-Hewer Extra unknown books
184028018New York: James P. Giffing 1840. 16pp caption title as issued. Disbound. Two full-page cartoon illustrations: 'Harrison and Prosperity' depicting a happy and industrious populace; and 'Van Buren and Ruin' portraying a deeply depressed community with a fat and happy manager of the Sub Treasury Office and an elaborately uniformed Standing Army in the background. Light dusting light scattered foxing. Small tear to one blank corner and two small corner chips no text loss. Good. <br/><br/> Miles attributes authorship to Jacob Bailey Moore the New Hampshire journalist; but Moore so far as I can tell was a Whig not an 'Old Democrat.' Harrison's sturdy character patriotism military service and opposition to Standing Armies in time of peace eminently qualify him for the Presidency. <br/> The Democrat Van Buren author of disastrous banking and economic policies is a Loco-Foco at heart and anti-democratic. "We have had EXPERIMENTS enough; and the next change ought to be a CHANGE OF RULERS."<br/>Miles 138. Sabin 16181. James P. Giffing unknown books
189236912New York 1892. Folio broadside 10" x 13" printed in three columns beneath caption title. Minor wear at blank upper edge Very Good plus.<br/><br/> "The Republican party of 1860 was the exponent of the grandest ideas and the most ennobling sentiments but to what abysmal depths has it fallen in these times. It now stands for nothing more than a corrupting combination between plutocrats and politicians to plunder the people." <br/> Three former Republicans express their dismay at their Party's moral collapse in the Gilded Age and their indignation at Republican mistreatment of Union Civil War veterans. They announce their plans to vote for Grover Cleveland the Democratic candidate in the upcoming presidential election. They are confident "that the interests of the old soldiers are safe with the Democratic party and Grover Cleveland who has always been sincere who has always kept his promises." <br/> The three are William Green District Attorney of Fulton County NY; Harrison Clark "once Dep't Comd'r of N.Y. G.A.R. and George B. Loud Past Jun. Vice Dep't Comd'r of Florida G.A.R." They express their disappointment and anger in these printed letters dated in early October 1892 to Theodore F. Reed Secretary of the National Veterans' Tariff Reform League.<br/>Not located on OCLC as of June 2020 or the online sites of NYPL or NYHS. unknown books
1820703Caldwell New York 1820. Folio broadside. 465 x 280mm. 18" x 11 inches.  Folded in quarters couple of tiny separations along folds. Lightly toned moderately foxing. An attractive untrimmed copy. Signed in type by David Alden and Frederick Miller Chairman and Sec'y of the meeting respectively as well as by members of the Republican Central Committee at conclusion. A handsome broadside utilizing a good deal of large bold type. Warren County is situated north of Glens Falls on the eastern border of New York encompassing almost all of Lake George. Caldwell N.Y. now the village of Lake George at the foot of the lake was for a time the county seat of Warren Co. It had a newspaper from the eighteen-teens and separate imprints from as early as 1820. The Lake George Coffee House served as the first county court and the Republican i.e. Democratic Central Committee had its office in Caldwell. Not in OCLC or American Imprints for 1820. unknown books
182834350np 1828. 12pp. Caption title as issued. Stitched untrimmed uncut. Scattered foxing else Very Good.<br/><br/> The author is an Adams man-- evidently Abner Lacock a prominent Pennsylvania politician who signs on page 12 in type-- in the upcoming presidential contest particularly because Adams's "pure and spotless private character" contrasts so sharply with that of his opponent Andrew Jackson whose "entire unfitness" for civil office is evident. His civic activities have been "fruitless of honor." The litany of his infamous duels his abuses of power his uncontrollable anger and temper his well-known violations of civilized norms in Florida and New Orleans is chronicled here. <br/> One John Sullivan of Baltimore attests that General Jackson threatened A. Lacock who appears to be the author of this pamphlet in an extremely unpleasant manner: Jackson "would cut the SCOUNDREL'S EARS OFF." <br/>Not in Wise & Cronin American Imprints Sabin. Not located on OCLC as of October 2017. unknown books
184425849Charleston 1844. 40 pp. Bound in modern quarter red morocco and marbled paper over boards. Minor scattered foxing Very Good plus.<br/><br/> A rare Southern Nationalist tract opposing the election of Henry Clay in 1844 warning of the imminent threat to the South's cherished institution of slavery supporting the Texas annexation and denouncing the North's imposition of protective tariffs. <br/> It begins with Langdon Cheves's Letter opposing separate State secession by South Carolina. Though Northern aggressions-- including the recent rejection of the Treaty to Annex Texas-- and the Tariff are an "insufferable and insulting oppression.I do not think one State ought to resist alone." He urges grass-roots organization to ready the South for mass secession. For this stance Cheves was harshly criticized by Carolinians who urged a go-it-alone policy. His Letter is followed by an early Daniel Webster speech embracing the South's opposition to protective tariffs and support of free trade. John Quincy Adams's Letter illustrates northern "fanaticism" on the slavery issue; Andrew Jackson's Letter of August 1844 supports the annexation of Texas; and James Towles's tract 'The South in Danger' warns against the election of Henry Clay who opposes annexation. <br/>Howes S790 AI 44-5791 and Streeter 1535 each recording a variant issue only. unknown books
182437247Boston 1824. Elephant folio broadsheet printed in four columns on recto six columns on verso verso consisting of many advertisements several illustrated. 15-1/4" x 21-1/2." Very Good. Ownership signatures at top margin: "Mr. Cleaveland" and "Brunswick."<br/><br/> The Centinel issued this rare Extra to urge the election of John Quincy Adams to the presidency. The list of Adams electors is printed along with the proceedings at the October 27 "Federal Republican Meeting" in Boston "friendly to the election of John Quincy Adams to the Presidency." The Address at that Meeting reviews the other presidential candidates. Henry Clay "is a stranger to your habits and interests." A man of the West "The star of your empire he would have go from your part of it far West." Andrew Jackson places "liberty in danger." Votes for Crawford of Georgia only "tend to make Jackson your President."<br/>Not in American Imprints. Not at the web sites of AAS or MA Hist. Soc. as of November 2020. unknown books
186133882Richmond 1861. Small broadside ticket 3" x 4-3/4". Very good. <br/><br/> A rare Virginia Confederate electoral ticket for the Confederacy's first and only national election: Jefferson Davis for President Alexander Stephens for Vice President. Also listed are two at-large electors and sixteen others by District. <br/>Variant of Parrish & Willingham 5367 5368; Crandall 2744 noting "four variant printings and sizes"; and Hummel 4667-4669. OCLC 58833485 2- U GA Boston Ath. 702707722 1- Yale as of June 2017 different dimensions. unknown books
185624482<p>"<i>What a Combination! Seward Greeley Bennet Watson Webb H. Ward Beecher &c. There can be no doubt that this goodly company will speedily be increased by the addition of Fred. Douglass and his black republicans… The only candidate to arrest this tide of demoralization and sectionalism is James Buchanan.</i>"</p><p>This pro-Buchanan election of 1856 pamphlet attacks the first Republican presidential candidate John C. Frémont. Quoting from the speeches and writings of William Lloyd Garrison Horace Greeley Wendell Phillips Salmon P. Chase Henry Ward Beecher William H. Seward Joshua R. Giddings this pamphlet ignores distinctions between abolitionists racial egalitarians more limited opponents just of the expansion of slavery into the territories or those who fought the kidnapping of free African Americans under the Fugitive Slave Law. It paints all with the same broad brush as "Black Republican" extreme abolitionists who were willing to destroy the Union rather than remain in it with slaveholders.</p> <b>ELECTION OF 1856.</b>Printed Document. <i>The Fearful Issue to Be Decided in November Next! Shall the Constitution and the Union Stand or Fall Fremont The Sectional Candidate of the Advocates of Dissolution! Buchanan The Candidate of Those Who Advocate One Country! One Union! One Constitution! and One Destiny!</i> 1856. 24 pp. 5 x 8½ in.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Excerpts:</b></p><p>Before Title: "<i>Read and hand to your Neighbor.</i>"</p><p>"<i>We propose showing by indubitable testimony that John C. Fremont's leading friends are now the open enemies of the Federal Constitution… the enemies of one-half of the States of the Union; the enemies of the laws of Congress; and the enemies to equality of the States.</i>" 3</p><p>"<i>In a speech delivered at the New England Anti-Slavery Convention on the 29th of May 1856 by Wm. Lloyd Garrison we have a flood of light shed on the relation between abolitionism and republicanism which divests the subject of all doubt or uncertainty.</i>" 4</p><p>"<i>William H. Seward was known at the Abolition Convention at Philadelphia… as one of Fremont's warmest supporters. Indeed it is well known that to Chase Seward and Greeley Fremont is mainly indebted for his nomination: they defeated McLean.</i>" 7</p><p>"<i>Nathaniel P. Banks Abolitionist and Disunionist was elected Speaker of the House by a solid sectional vote: he did not get one vote from the South.No man has exhibited such ferocious hostility to the fugitive slave law to the compromise measures and to the Federal Constitution. His speeches full of treason and of war would fill a volume.</i>" 8 and 9</p><p>"<i>Every leading committee has an Abolition Disunionist for chairman and a Disunion majority! There some thirty-five committees in the House… Black Republicans monopolized all the great committees. Thus was the work of Disunion formally begun in the Congress of the United States! This monstrous act unprecedented in all our history was the deliberate work of the men who now surround Fremont.</i>" 10</p><p>"<i>The reverend agitator Ward Beecher is out for Fremont in the last number of his 'Independent.' He is probably next to Garrison and Phillips the most profligate calumniator of the Constitution and the Union.</i>" 19</p><p>"<i>What a Combination! Seward Greeley Bennet Watson Webb H. Ward Beecher &c. There can be no doubt that this goodly company will speedily be increased by the addition of Fred. Douglass and his black republicans. Every Black Republican in Congress from New York is now the earnest advocate of Fremont.</i>" 20</p><p>"<i>We aver that there is not an Abolitionist or Disunionist in Pennsylvania who is not an active and open friend of John C. Fremont for the Presidency. David Wilmot and William F. Johnston lead the motley crew both recreants from the Democratic party because the Democratic party respected the Constitution of the United States and would not desert its injunctions… The only candidate to arrest this tide of demoralization and sectionalism is James Buchanan. It is against him and against the Constitution that this combination has been formed.</i>" 23</p><p>"<i>in the South every vote thrown for Mr. Fillmore is more or less an aid to John C. Fremont to the extent that it may weaken James Buchanan.</i>" 24</p><p>"<i>We would speak of Mr. Fillmore with entire respect. His speech at Albany was patriotic and forcible but it cannot be denied that out of New York in the North all those who pretend to support him will be called upon in the State elections to unite against the Democratic party with the friends of Fremont otherwise known as the Black Republicans.</i>" 24</p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>James Buchanan won with 1.8 million votes and 174 electoral votes from 19 states. Fremont received 1.3 million votes winning 11 northern states with 114 electoral votes. American Party "Know Nothing" candidate and former President Millard Fillmore received 873000 votes winning Maryland's 8 electoral votes. Frémont received no votes at all in 10 of the 14 slave states and fewer than 1200 votes total in the other 4 slave states.</p><p><b>John C. Frémont</b> 1813-1890 "the Pathfinder" was a legendary explorer who achieved military victories in California during the Mexican War. He entered politics as California's first senator and then became the first Republican presidential candidate in 1856. During the Civil War Lincoln removed Frémont from command in Missouri after he unilaterally declared martial law and threatened to confiscate all property including slaves of Southern sympathizers. Lincoln gave Frémont command of an army in western Virginia where he was defeated by Stonewall Jackson in the Battle of Cross Keys. After Frémont refused to serve under General John Pope Lincoln never again gave him a field command contributing to a personal grudge. In 1864 Frémont abandoned his third-party campaign for the presidency in September after Lincoln agreed to remove U.S. Postmaster General Montgomery Blair from office.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Disbound minor pin holes very good.</p> books
1860WRCAM45168Cleveland: Nevins' Print Plain Dealer Job Office 1860. 188pp. Dbd. Ink pen trial on titlepage. Light wear in fore-edge of titlepage and upper margin of final text leaf. Two text leaves printed on slightly folded paper resulting in obscuration of some text. Good. The official record of a crucially important moment in American politics the 1860 Democratic Conventions at which Stephen A. Douglas won the nomination and faced Republican nominee Abraham Lincoln in the general election. The first convention was held in Charleston in late April and early May and was a rancorous affair. Douglas led the field of nine total candidates at Charleston over the opposition of militant Southern Democrats so-called "Fire Eaters". Despite the fact that fifty-seven separate ballots were held Douglas could not secure the necessary two-thirds majority of delegates. The delegates therefore adjourned and reconvened in Baltimore in June where the committee voted to exclude certain delegates from Louisiana and Alabama who had been disruptive in Charleston. Douglas finally secured the nomination on the second ballot in Baltimore and went on to lose the general election to Lincoln. The present text prints all the proceedings of the Charleston and Baltimore conventions offering a detailed picture of American politics at their most fractious. Nevins' Print, Plain Dealer Job Office unknown books
186434855New York 1864. Broadside wood engraving oblong 9-5/8" x 7-7/8". Blank verso uniformly toned Very Good.<br/><br/> "Columbia repudiates Democratic presidential candidate George Brinton McClellan's endorsement of the platform devised at the August 1864 Democratic convention in Chicago. The text below the picture provides the dialogue descriptive notes and identification of the main characters. Columbia: 'What a shame that a man who was educated at my expense and whom I have since honored and petted should have allowed himself to be allured by ambition into such company and upon such a Platform! His Letter cannot conceal his real position nor hide those odious 'planks;' neither can it reconcile me to his traitorous companions. I DISCARD BOTH HIM AND THEM FOREVER'." Reilly <br/> Onlookers include the discredited James Buchanan Fernando Wood Horatio Seymour Clement Vallandigham Franklin Pierce and other Copperheads. <br/>Reilly 1864-22. Weitenkampf 144. OCLC 299946973 2- Lib. Cong. W. Res. Hist. Soc. 881054411 1- UCSB 81099323 1- Am. Phil. Soc. as of April 2018. unknown books
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
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
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
