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CIRCULAR. BALTIMORE OCTOBER 16TH 1844. SIR: THE RECENT ELECTION FOR GOVERNOR GIVES US A STRONG HOPE THAT IF A VIGOROUS AND UNITED EFFORT IS MADE BY THE DEMOCRACY OF THIS STATE MARYLAND CAN BE CARRIED FOR POLK AND DALLAS.

184434342Baltimore 1844. Folio printed sheet folded to 8" x 10". Caption title as issued. 1 3 blanks pp. Last page addressed to a man in Westminster Maryland and postmarked Baltimore Oct. 21. Old folds from mailing red seal remnant on last page. Very Good. Members of the Maryland Democratic State Central Committee pledge "that we are determined in Baltimore to do" all that is necessary for the Polk-Dallas ticket. This includes "the presence of Vigilance Committees at the opening of the Polls and their continuance there until after the counting of the votes." Baltimore was the scene of many riots in the first half of the 19th century political and otherwise. Not located on OCLC as of December 2017. unknown books

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OREGON. PUBLISHED BY THE DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON D.C.

184427020Washington: J. Heart Printer 1844. 4pp folded untrimmed. Lightly worn and dusted else Very Good. A pro-Polk campaign document centering on the candidates' alleged differences over the Oregon Territory. "Whilst James K. Polk is pledged to retain the whole of this great territory Henry Clay is also pledged to surrender nearly one-half of it to England." The issue in the campaign is simple: "Clay and England on the one side Polk and America on the other. Shall the stars and stripes of the Union or the red cross of St. George wave forever over the Territory of Oregon Shall a republic or a monarchy be established within its limits." Eberstadt unaccountably suggesting an 1845 publication date calls this "a flaming circular.claiming the whole of the territory and apparently everything else from the Amazon River northward to the pole." 110 Eberstadt 225. AI 44-1912 5. Not in Sabin Decker Smith Soliday Graff. J. Heart, Printer unknown books

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TARIFF DOCTRINE

184415877Washington: Whig Executive Cong. Committee 1844. 16pp. Disbound. Good. A Whig argument for protection from foreign competition explaining the ruinous effects of Free Trade and the necessity to protect mechanics and industrialists alike from the dumping of foreign goods on the United States. The Whig ticket from Clay on down must be supported. FIRST EDITION. AI 44-6587 4. Not in Sabin. Whig Executive Cong. Committee unknown books

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THE GLORIOUS EIGHTH. YOUR COMPANY IS RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED AT THE ASSEMBLY ROOM OF ARAH LEONARD AT HAMILTON CENTRE ON WEDNESDAY THE 8TH OF JANUARY NEXT AT 5 O'CLOCK P.M. TO ATTEND A POLK-ER BALL IN COMMEMORATION OF THE VICTORIES OF NEW-ORLEANS AND THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER 1844

184534341Hamilton NY 1845. 1 3 blanks pp. Folded octavo sheet. Illustration of American Flag with "Polk and Dallas" ribbon surrounding it. Light wear and old folds. Very Good. The invitation lists 24 'Managers' and Clark R. Nash and Alphonso Gilbert as 'Room Managers.' "TICKETS- $125 to be had at the Bar." The ball was to celebrate Polk's recent presidential victory and to commemorate General Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans on January 8 1815. Annual balls were held throughout the country on January 8th to celebrate this final battle including several in 1845 in New York. This ball was held at Hamilton Centre in Hamilton Madison County New York. The Managers were prominent Hamilton citizens. Smith John E.: HISTORY OF HAMILTON NEW YORK. Boston History Co.: 1899. unknown books

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Election of 1844 Kennedy John PendletonABAA

WHIG TEXT BOOK OR DEMOCRACY UNMASKED. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES

184429144Washington: Gideon's office 1844. 31 1 Index pp. Caption title as issued. Stitched and untrimmed. Lightly foxed Good. A Whig presidential campaign pamphlet arraigning Polk and the Democrats as the party of "TEXAS OR DISUNION." Fearing anti-slavery Whigs' defection from their candidate Henry Clay whose waffling on Texas would drive them to the new Liberty Party this document emphasizes Polk's opposition to the Whig program of internal improvements and a protective tariff. "Down with the Tariff is the universal cry of those now advocating the cause of Polk and Texas." FIRST EDITION. AI 44-6596 5. Sabin 20659 attributing to John L. Dorsey. Not in Miles Eberstadt Decker Streeter TX LCP. Gideon's office unknown books

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DEFENCE OF THE WHIGS. BY A MEMBER OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

184411033New-York 1844. 16mo. 152 28 adv. pp. Sewn lacks wraps. A bit of chipping at edges. Good to Good. An attack on the turncoat John Tyler who was the Whig Harrison's Vice President but betrayed the Whig cause after his own accession to the Presidency upon Harrison's death in 1841. The author supports Henry Clay for President. BAL 11051. AI 44-3548 5. unknown books

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A REFUTATION OF ANDREW STEWART'S FABRICATION AGAINST GENERAL LEWIS CASS. A GROSS MISREPRESENTATION OF THE PUBLIC DOCUMENTS BY ANDREW STEWART AND THE WHIG CENTRAL COMMITTEE AT WASHINGTON EXPOSED

184819816Washington: Published Under Authority of the National and Jackson Democratic Association Committee 1848. 16pp untrimmed and folded blank top edge chipped. Toned. Good or so. Stewart a Whig had charged that Cass the Democrats' 1848 presidential nominee had picked the taxpayers' pockets while Governor of the Michigan Territory and Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Stewart issued a pamphlet that included Cass's expense accounts and other documents to back up his charges. Defending Cass this pamphlet accuses the Whigs and Stewart of "making up a gross statement against General Cass and suppressing the truth in regard to the accounts of General Taylor." Taylor say the Democrats is guilty of even greater malfeasance than that which has been falsely charged against Cass. Sabin 91633n. 111 Eberstadt 113. Published Under Authority of the National and Jackson Democratic Association Committee unknown books

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ADDRESS OF THE WHIG STATE CONVENTION TO THE PEOPLE OF RHODE-ISLAND

184834739Newport 1848. 24pp. Disbound printed in two columns per page. Light wear faint blindstamp on final leaf. Good On "the wisdom and good policy" of the Whigs' 1848 nomination of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore for the presidency. The pamphlet soothes the wounds of the failed candidates and their supporters: Winfield Scott the "noble old chief who had just carried the eagles of our Republic in triumph over the mountains of Mexico;" Henry Clay "the gallant chivalrous and accomplished statesman of the West;" Webster "the strong towering giant defender of the constitution of the North." "Circumstances demanded the nomination of another patriotic whig as the standard bearer of our party." Taylor is a man of "TRUTH JUSTICE INTEGRITY FIDELITY and a NOBLE GENEROSITY." In this complicated election the Whigs had to contend not only with the Democrats and their nominee Lewis Cass but also with former President Martin Van Buren and his Free Soil Party. Seeking to hold the votes of anti-slavery Whigs this pamphlet derides Van Buren's last-minute conversion: his record shows a complete subservience to the Slave Power. Sabin 70526. OCLC 25797641 5 as of March 2018. unknown books

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ADDRESS OF THE WHIGS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS TO THE WHIGS OF THE UNION

184817436Boston: Eastburn's Press 1848. Stitched 11pp. Scattered foxing blank top margin of title page cut down with no text affected upper blank forecorner chewed. Good. Massachusetts Whigs put forth a valiant but unsuccessful effort in behalf of Daniel Webster's candidacy for the Whig presidential nomination in He is "A man who respecting all the 'arrangements and compromises of the Constitution' and the rights of all under them will yet never suffer them to be extended or increased to the destruction of our political equality." FIRST EDITION. 4 NUC 0070701 2. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker Miles. Eastburn's Press unknown books

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BANGOR OCTOBER -- 1848. DEAR SIR: WE HAVE BEEN APPOINTED A COMMITTEE FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MAINE INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF PENOBSCOT PISCATAQUIS HANCOCK WASHINGTON AND AROOSTOK TO CORRESPOND WITH OUR FRIENDS AND TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE ELECTION ON THE SEVENTH OF NOVEMBER.

184834421Bangor 1848. Folio sheet folded to 7-3/4" x 10". Printed on first page only; second page blank; third page with a manuscript letter urging the recipient whose last name is Chandler to campaign vigorously for the Taylor-Whig ticket. Very Good. A plea to get out the vote for Taylor. "If Gen. Taylor is elected he will be elected by the free and spontaneous action of the people uninfluenced by money or corruption.The signs are auspicious-- all that is wanted is union activity and organization." The printed letter is signed in type by Edward Kent J. Wingate Carr W.P. Wingate Wm. C. Hammatt Geo. W. Ingersoll and Moses L. Appleton. unknown books

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CIRCULATE. PUBLISHED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE NATIONAL AND JACKSON DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE. GENERAL TAYLOR'S TWO FACES. 'LOOK UPON THIS PICTURE AND THEN UPON THIS'

184820489Washington 1848. 8pp printed in double columns caption title as issued. Disbound else Very Good. A scarce 1848 campaign pamphlet attacking Whig presidential candidate Zachary Taylor who "has no political principles and is perfectly ignorant upon political matters." On the burning issue of the Wilmot Proviso-- whether slavery ought to exist in the territories acquired from Mexico-- Taylor is a hypocrite: "At the North he is represented to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso." But "at the South his advocates contend that he is opposed.because he is a southern man and a slaveholder and therefore identified with southern interests." A Louisiana slaveholder Taylor surprised everyone after his election when he supported immediate statehood for California with its anti-slavery Constitution. Wise & Cronin 44 Taylor. Not in Sabin Miles Eberstadt Decker LCP. unknown books

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CIRCULATE. PUBLISHED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE NATIONAL AND JACKSON DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE. TAYLOR WHIGERY EXPOSED. LETTER FROM THE HON. EDMUND BURKE

184819495np 1848. 16pp caption title as issued. Tanned several leaves trimmed closely at the fore-edge with slight loss. Good. A rare 1848 campaign pamphlet attacking Taylor and sketching the biography of Lewis Cass a man "of the highest order of talent" who has filled "almost every grade of office from the lowest to the highest and most responsible in the service of his country. From the first start in life he has been a Democrat. He received the first office he ever held from that great apostle of Democracy Thomas Jefferson in 1807." Taylor by contrast is a "spectacle" as a candidate-- lacking any political opinions and without even a political party to which he can claim loyalty. A General in the Mexican War he nevertheless allowed himself to be the candidate of the Whigs "who have sympathised with the public enemy who have traitorously given him 'aid and comfort' who have voted for the disgrace of their country in Congress by alleging that the war was unconstitutionally commenced." FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin Miles Eberstadt Decker. Not located in NUC or on OCLC. unknown books

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CIRCULATE. PUBLISHED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE NATIONAL AND JACKSON DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE. THE VETO POWER: ITS ORIGINS AND OBJECTS. EXTRACT FROM A SPEECH OF THE HON. ANDREW JOHNSON OF TENNESSEE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AUGUST 2 1848

18487855Washington 1848. 8pp caption title as issued. Disbound else Very Good. A rare 1848 Democratic campaign pamphlet defending President Polk's vetoes. The veto power says his supporter Andrew Johnson "was established to enable the people to resist and repel encroachments on their rights." Since the country's founding Presidents have exercised the veto only 25 times. The document also includes Virginia Congressman Bayly's 1848 speech concurring with Johnson; and "Judge Story's Opinion on the Veto" taken from his Commentaries. Not in Sabin Eberstadt. OCLC 24637860 1- Lancaster Hist. Soc. 976424705 1- U VA as of January 2021. unknown books

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TAYLOR PLATFORM. WHIG COMMITTEE ROOM COLUMBUS SEPT. 25 1848

184815121Columbus 1848. 6 2 blanks pp. Caption title as issued disbound. Scattered foxing. Good. 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." 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

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THE CASS PLATFORM

18486729Washington: Towers 1848. 8pp disbound else Very Good with caption title as issued. A Whig attack on Michigan Senator Cass the Democrats' 1848 presidential nominee. His "love of the people's money" is evidenced by his expense vouchers-- printed here-- as Secretary of Indian Affairs. The failure of the Seminole campaign resulted from his "incompetency" as Secretary of War. He is "an old Federalist who denies his ancestry." The pamphlet attacks his 'Nicholson Letter' in which for the first time the concept of Popular Sovereignty-- permitting Territorial inhabitants rather than Congress to determine whether slavery should exist there-- was articulated. Sabin 11350. Streeter MI 612. Towers unknown books

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Election of 1848 Adams John CalvinABAA

A NORTHERN NO! ADDRESSED TO THE DELEGATES FROM THE FREE STATES TO THE WHIG NATIONAL CONVENTION. AT PHILADELPHIA 1848

18489627np 1848. 16pp disbound and stitched minor scattered spotting. Very Good. NUC attributes authorship to Adams identified here only as "a Whig of the Free States." He is appalled at his Party's impending nomination of Zachary Taylor for the presidency. Taylor a Louisiana slaveholder had never voted or participated in civil affairs. His military career most recently in the Mexican War which northern Whigs had generally opposed as an unconstitutional land-grab for slavery was his only public activity. "He is a Military Chieftain-- and he is a Slave owner and in favor of the Extension of Slavery over new territories." Webster deserves the nomination: "Let there be no wavering none of the contemptible expediency doctrine which leads men to declare in one breath that Mr. Webster is their first choice and to say the next moment that they are ready to vote for General Taylor." FIRST EDITION. Sabin 55816. 3 NUC 0062491. Not in Miles LCP Eberstadt Decker Dumond. unknown books

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EVENING POST DOCUMENTS.- NO. 10. SPEECHES DELIVERED AT TAMMANY HALL NEW YORK CITY SEPT. 2 1852 BY HON. LEWIS CASS OF MICHIGAN. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS OF ILLINOIS.HON. BENJ. F. HALLETT OF MASSACHUSETTS. At head of title: Evening Post Extra.

185225283New York 1852. 16pp untrimmed uncut and folded. Dusted lightly worn some spine splitting. Good. A Democratic Party rally during the 1852 presidential campaign endorsing "with joyous hearts the names of Franklin Pierce and William R. King as the favored standard bearers of our political faith in the present campaign. In looking over the troubles and darkness which hung around our National Convention the name of Pierce was discovered like an oasis in our desert to cheer and gladden us all." This is a variant printing. Our copy's title ends as noted above; the title of the other issue ends with 'Also Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 and 1799.' Our issue does not print those Resolutions. Pages 15-16 print the list of Evening Post Documents for the 1852 campaign. OCLC 319715221 2as of 7/12. See Sabin 89203 and OCLC 21984603 5 for the other issue. unknown books

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PLEASE READ AND CIRCULATE. "FRANKLIN PIERCE AND HIS ABOLITION ALLIES." np nd

185217752Washington 1852. 8pp disbound caption title as issued. Printing flaw at page 2 affecting several letters Good. An 1852 Democratic campaign pamphlet rebutting the Whigs' libel that Pierce the Democrats' presidential candidate is an abolitionist. Several Congressional votes in which Pierce participated rather slender stalks for the Whigs to stand on in any event are earnestly and thoroughly rebutted. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker. See LCP 3805 for the Whig publication to which this item responds. unknown books

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READ AND CIRCULATE. FACTS AND FIGURES OR EXTRAVAGANCE AND GALPHINISM EXPOSED

185217434np 1852. 15pp caption title as issued bound in modern wrappers dusted Good. An 1852 pamphlet defending the Whigs and Scott against Democrats' charges of extravagance; and rebutting their charge of corruption in settling the Galphin case in which the Taylor administration made payment to the heirs of a Georgia revolutionary war figure who had expended money in support of that struggle. The Democrats are the Party of extravagance and corruption: "He who shouted STOP THE THIEF most lustily was found with the Stolen Pig under his own cloak!" Not in Sabin or evidently NUC. unknown books

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THE PIERCE AND KING DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON TO THE LABORING AND PRODUCING CLASSES OF THE UNITED STATES

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. 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." 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." OCLC 23149127 5 as of October 2017. Not in Miles. unknown books

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