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1391963059.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1396738614.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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elala2053Alnwick: 1826-32. An album containing 36 engraved and etched caricatures including at least 25 dealing with the Alnwick Northumberland election of 1826 some additional dealing with the Northumberland election of 1832 and 3 broadsides 2 illustrated. various sized sheets 25 hand-coloured most mounted on larger uniform sheets. bound as an oblong folio in later half morocco extremities worn short splits in lower joints scattered soiling & foxing several sheets folded & some torn but with no loss of image. ownership entry of William Graham Richardson North Shields. The 1826 Alnwick election for two parliamentary representatives for Northumberland was a hotly contested one marked by much rancour and animosity among the candidates and the voters. Some voters engaged in the practice of plumping or voting for only a single candidate rather than two. Of the four contestants Henry Thomas Liddell Liddle Tory Matthew Bell Tory Thomas Wentworth Beaumont at the time an Independent Reformer and Henry George Grey Viscount Howick Whig Liddell and Bell emerged victorious. Another figure appearing in some of the caricatures is John George Lambton later first Earl of Durham Governor General of Canada 1837 and author of the celebrated Durham Report 1839. While supporting the candidature of his brother-in-law Lord Howick Lambton fought a bloodless duel with T.W.Beaumont. A full listing of the broadsides and caricatures some of which carry the imprint of W.Stephenson or W.Davison is available upon request. [Alnwick]: 1826-32. unknown
1333736320.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1772AQ12982Salisbury: Printed for and Sold by E. Easton 1772. 2 110pp. With a half-title. Bound with; An alphabetical list of the names of the persons Who polled for knights of the shire for the county of Wilts on the 18th 19th 20th and 21st of August 1772. Salisbury Printed and Sold by E. Easton 1772. 52pp 2 ads. Quarto. Handsomely bound by C. W. Rose in recent half morocco marbled boards gilt T.E.G. decorated endpapers. Very minor wear to extremities. Sporadic browning occasional ink annotations to margins and text sympathetic repair of tear to title of second work. Tables of eligible electors and their respective votes for the Wiltshire county poll of 1772 between candidates Ambrose Goddard and Henry Herbert. The latter polled well on the August 18th opening only to rapidly lose the majority over the next four days as Goddard's supporters rolled in to secure superiority of over two votes to one. When the poll closed it was said that Goddard had a substantial number of voters left. Given that half of Herbert's supporters polled on day one when no oath had been taken the likelihood is that Goddard's victory was even more decisive than the final count suggests. ESTC T180382 T122038. First edition. Printed for, and Sold by E. Easton hardcover
1986222683Johor Bahru.: Partai Sosialis Rakyat Malaysia. Circa1986. Three black and white political cartoons 28pp. 15 x 10pp. Original stapled wrappers little browned a prior owner's name lightly pencilled in red upper wrapper overall in good condition. A short publication issued by the Malaysian People's Party at the time still operating as the Malaysian Socialist People's Party in the lead up to the 1986 election. Within are a few short commentaries on the dysfunction within UMNO with particular interest in the so-called AIDS faction in the party. Scarce; we have only been able to find one institution holding this publication. . Partai Sosialis Rakyat Malaysia. unknown
1830004069<p>London; Truro: Baldwin and Craddock; G. Clyma; G; Taylor 1830. Five works bound as one - 1. 'Some Account of the Proceedings at the Election for Truro August 3-6 1830' London 1830 3 4-40pp; 2. 'Supplement to the Account of the Election for Truro; Containing Petitions of the Candidates and Burgesses Complaining of an Undue Return' London 1831 2 3-16pp; 3. 'Second Supplement to the Account of the Elections for Truro; Containing a Report of the Proceedings at the Election on the 3rd of May 1831' Truro G. Clyma 1831 2 3-24pp; 4. 'Farther Account of Election Proceedings in this Borough to their Successful Termination on the 15th of December 1832 Together With a Copy of the Poll Accompanied by a Map of the Renovated and Extended Borough' Truro G. Clyma 1833 2 3-80pp; and 5. 'Address Etc. on Occasion of Mr. W. Tooke's Visit to Truro Sept.-Oct. 1833' London G. Taylor 1833 2 3-16pp. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper over boards later rebacked and recornered with a new label. Ex-library with stamps of Incorporated Law Society to first title head of first page and foot of final page of final pamphlet manuscript contents page bound in at front. Small tear to head of first title lightly browned throughout. Fourth named with a colour folding map as called for. The Truro printer was G.eorge Clyma fl. 1830-1848 see BBTI. Accounts of the attempts to reform the election in Truro including a list of the constituents who voted for William Tooke. For a good overview of the proceedings see Jenkins in Fisher Ed 'The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832'. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo.</p> Baldwin and Craddock; G. Clyma; G; Taylor hardcover
187238915Hartford 1872. Broadside 6" x 9-1/2" text surrounded by mourning border. A few spots Very Good. Illustrations of two steamers. At the bottom: "This is Good for ONE PASSAGE Only. - H.G." Dated at Hartford November 5 1872.<br /> <br /> "Salt River" is 19th century American slang: a losing candidate for office was taking a trip "up Salt River." Tickets for passage "up Salt River" were frequently printed to mock supporters of losing candidates. <br /> This humorous scarce broadside taunts Horace Greeley and other defectors from the Republican Party for their support of Greeley in 1872. "On the overwhelming defeat of the Liberal Republican Party and its candidate Horace Greeley in the presidential election of 1872. Greeley had been nominated at a Liberal Republican convention at Cincinnati in May and at the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore in July 1872" AAS description.<br /> Pall bearers include Charles Sumner and General Banks prominent Republican supporters of Greeley.<br /> OCLC 191231113 2- AAS Middlebury 47090036 1- CT Hist. Soc. as of August 2025. unknown
189443553n.p.: Hartman & Cadick 1894. First editions. Self wrappers. Good to very good. 8 pp. 8 pp. 8 pp. 8vo. The mid-term elections of 1884 were a disaster for the Democrats led by Grover Cleveland. Republicans and Populists in large part due to the efforts of Joseph Weeks Babcock 1850-1909 a Republican Congressman from Wisconsin who helped organize the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee in 1893 and was a major force in routing the Democrats in the 1894 House elections which cost the Democrats 113 of their 218 seats. They are most likely printed by Hartman & Cadick Republican printers. All follow the same format of quoting leading figures and using bold face type. 1: Caption title "If the Laboring Class be to Perish I Say the Whole Nation." A the head of the title: No. 1 - From the Congressional Record. The caption title is from the English Reformer William Cobbett followed by "You cannot reduce the laborer to a state of starvation and degradation without also destroying national prosperity" a quote from Joseph Norton Dolph 1835-1897 Senator from Oregon from one of his many speeches quoted here. OCLC locates only a single copy at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center. A very good copy docketed on front wrapper mail fold. 2: Caption title "The industrial side of the tariff controversy must not be overlooked. The four millions of people who work in our factory system are the most potent factors outside of agriculture in our civilization." - Hon. J. W. Babcock Wisconsin. A the head of the title: Record No. 3. Apparently unrecorded. We could find no copies in OCLC NUC or other reference sources. Chip to front wrapper else very good with docketing stamp. 3: Caption title "When you Rob the Laboring Men of their Employment you Rob the Farmers of their Customers." The quote from the caption title belongs to Charles Curtis 1860-1936 Republican from Kansas who would go on to become Hoover's Vice President. OCLC locates one copy at the Western Reserve Historical Society Library. A good copy browned some minor chipping docketing stamp on front wrapper. [Hartman & Cadick?] unknown
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><p><strong>PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1936.</strong> 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><p><strong>Excerpts:</strong></p><p>"<em>1. Sounding the call against 'economic royalists' in the spirit of 1776.</em>"</p><p>"<em>2. Appropriating the well-known symbol of violence</em> upraised fist<em> diverting it to peaceful democratic use. To include the farmer phrase the appeal: TOILERS OF AMERICA – UNITE FOR ROOSEVELT.</em>"</p><p>"<em>3. The statue of 'The Thinker' as a symbol of the man today who thinks the toiler with brawn and brain.everyman.</em>"</p><p>"<em>4. Direct appeal to radical labor and leftists in general.</em>"</p><p>"<em>5. Another way of appealing to the working class men and women.</em>"</p><p>"<em>This collaborative effort respectfully submitted for consideration to the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Mr. James A. Farley.</em>"</p><p><strong>Historical Background</strong></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 <em>The Spirit of '76</em> 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 "<em>economic royalists</em>." A third used an image of <em>The Thinker</em> 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 "<em>Reaction</em>."</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 <em>The Democratic Book 1936</em> 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><strong>Franz Felix</strong> 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><strong>James A. Farley</strong> 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>
19604337Various locations in and around Chicago Il: likely early November 1960. Very good plus. Title leaf plus 25 leaves illustrated with forty-seven silver gelatin photographs pasted one per leaf or page all about 5.5 x 7.5 inches plus five loose images two duplicates and three other images not pasted in. Square quarto. Contemporary tan cloth custom photograph album metal-hinged spine front cover printed with title reading "ELECTION 1960." Minor wear and soiling to album. Light occasional thumb-soiling to album leaves ownership signature reading "G. Robert Hillman" on title leaf. Photographs in excellent condition. An utterly charming vernacular photograph album assembled during the seminal Presidential Election of 1960 one of the closest presidential elections in United States history which pitted Vice President Richard Nixon against the junior Senator from Massachusetts John F. Kennedy. The album features about fifty original photographs on the campaign trail in Illinois beginning with about a dozen-and-a-half images of Richard Nixon and his local supporters. The photographs capture various angles of Nixon during his stump speech a young boy waving an "I'm for Nixon" handmade sign another young boy with a Nixon button on his coat crowd scenes a large campaign sign for Nixon-Lodge outside a local store and more. One image featuring a mixed crowd of Nixon and Kennedy supporters transitions into the next section of photographs which concentrates on JFK's campaign. The first image in this section is a closeup of a "Kennedy for President" hat followed by four images of JFK's campaign manager Robert Kennedy making a speech three images of Eleanor Roosevelt stumping for Kennedy five images of Lyndon Johnson and his airplane numerous shots of Kennedy supporters and crowd shots outside Chicago Blackhawks stadium. The photographs then feature the inside of Chicago Auditorium where the first three images depict John F. Kennedy - the first shaking hands with Chicago's longtime Mayor Richard Daley and two during his speech likely his speech of November 4 1960 - just four days before Election Day. The final three images show supporters of both candidates.<br /> <br /> The 1960 United States Presidential Election was a watershed moment for the campaign politics of the country. Senator Kennedy won the election with a clear Electoral College margin of 303 to 219. However Vice President Nixon won three more states than Kennedy and lost the popular vote only by about 110000 votes out of more than 68 million votes cast. The election set the course for most of the remainder of the 1960s but left Nixon soured and suspicious that the election had been stolen from him - a feeling he never let go and one with ominous echoes today. As indicated in the present album the 1960 presidential election was passionate on both sides with each candidate drawing large enthusiastic crowds for their appearances.<br /> <br /> The signature on the title leaf of the present album likely identifies the compiler. G. Robert Hillman is a Senior Editor for Politico. Hillman was born in Peoria and grew up on a farm near Flanagan Illinois about a hundred miles from Chicago. He went to college at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and began his career at Chicago Today and the Chicago Sun-Times. Hillman would have been in middle school during the 1960 election campaign not too precocious for a young man obsessed with politics especially during one of the most heated and media-intensive campaigns of the 20th century. likely early November unknown
1832004517Retford: B. Dewhirst Printer 1832. Single sided printed broadside approximately 220mm x 280mm in size. Laid on to paper probably ex-library but no evidence of this. With light creasing and associated dust staining and a couple of small tears to foot before being laid down. Thomas Houldsworth 1771-1852 became the Tory MP for North Nottinghamshire at this election in 1832 having previously represented Pontefract and then Newton stepping down at the general election of July 1852 and dying a couple of months later. First Edition. Unbound. Good. 4to. Broadside. B. Dewhirst [Printer] Paperback
185641369Albany NY: Comstock & Cassidy 1856. First edition. Self wrappers. A very good copy with a fold removed from a bound volume; small tears along fore edge. Unpaged 4 pp. 27 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches. Supports the Democratic Party. Extensive coverage of the 1856 elections with large ad for James Buchanan for President and John C. Breckinridge for Vice President. Also notice for the sale of Delaware Indian Lands at Fort Leavenworth Kansas Territory moving the sale until the 17th of November with a list of tracts. Comstock & Cassidy unknown
183838949New York: H.R. Robinson 1838. Oblong lithograph broadside 13-1/4" x 20." Shallow blank left margin chips from a prior mounting. Light outer margin darkening. A clean image signed 'Blanks fecit' perhaps Edward Williams Clay. Very Good.<br /> <br /> A satiric commentary on thwarted Democratic hopes to control New York City. Whigs dashed Democratic expectations in the New York municipal elections of spring 1838. Successful Whig mayoral candidate Aaron Clark holds and restrains two horses by their tails: 'Stop my good fellows you are going on a fools errand you are counting your chickens before they are hatched'." His victory has delayed if not destroyed Loco Foco hopes of political dominance. <br /> On the right a Loco Foco supporter in the garb of a carman or driver sits on a horse and tries to ride toward Albany to fulfill his ambitions: 'Marcy must resign in my favor and I'll be next Governor myself for this job!' Reilly suggests the man is either Isaac Varian the Loco Foco mayoral candidate or Democratic Congressman C.C. Cambreling.<br /> On the left a uniformed Jacksonian Democrat sits on his horse. He wants to go to Washington: 'I shall insist on Matty's making me next Collector.' He is probably Tammany leader Jesse Hoyt who indeed was successful in his quest to be Collector of the Port of New York.<br /> Reilly 1838-11. Weitenkampf 52. OCLC 299944597 1- DLC 1136565725 1- AAS as of December 2025. Not at NYPL or NYHS web sites. H.R. Robinson unknown
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 1- Villanova 1136555720 1- AAS as of October 2024. Currier & Ives unknown
186440035np 1864. Broadside 6.25" x 9" with two-thirds of the sheet consisting of a wood engraving entitled "The Purifying Process." Toned with a few short blank edge chips. Good.<br /> <br /> This scarce political broadside mocks the Copperheads who opposed the Lincoln Administration and the Civil War. The broadside depicts humorous rituals imposed on the Copperheads designed to purge Copperhead-ism from their natures. Weitenkampf and OCLC call this an 1864 broadside with the Lincoln-McClellan election the subject of this piece. <br /> Weitenkampf page 140. OCLC 14137917 4- Lincoln Presidential Library Brown U IL Princeton 1360327631 1- DLC 1085916488 1- AAS as of May 2024. unknown
18489627np 1848. 16pp disbound and stitched minor scattered spotting. Very Good. <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> "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." <br /> FIRST EDITION. Sabin 55816. 3 NUC 0062491. Not in Miles LCP Eberstadt Decker Dumond. unknown
184039023Courtland Lawrence Cty. Alabama 1840. Single page 7-3/4" x 12-3/4." Entirely in ink manuscript. Dated June 20 1840 and signed at the end by Watkins and Swoope with Jno. J. McMahon as witness. Inner edge is irregular. Closed tear no loss repaired expertly at blank bottom margin. Very Good.<br /> <br /> This documents records the terms of a wager on the outcome of the 1840 presidential election. "Watkins betts Swoope Ten Bales Cotton of Best quality weighing Five Hundred Pounds Each on each State in the union 26 in number that Van Buren will receive a majority of the Electoral votes in the contest now pending between Van Buren and Wm. H. Harrison for the Presidency." <br /> In case that's not entirely clear "The true intent and meaning of the parties is that Watkins risks Ten Bales Cotton in each State in the Union in favour of Van Buren and every state that Van Buren receives a majority of the Electoral votes." The bet is made on the electoral vote of each State. Watkins risking in favor of Van Buren & Swoope in favor of Harrison. . . The cotton to be delivered in Courtland to the winning party in five parcels annually for five years commencing on the 1st day of January 1841." <br /> A calculation of States and bales can be seen at the bottom left corner in pencil. <br /> Robert Herndon Watkins 1782-1855 was a farmer in Courtland. Jacob Kuhn Swoope 1800-1841 partnered with his two brothers in the successful Courtland mercantile firm of J & J Swoope in Courtland. John T. McMahon c.1805-1857 was a Courtland commission merchant in the firm of Bierne & McMahon for many years. Saunders Col. James E.: EARLY SETTLERS OF ALABAMA WITH NOTES AND GENEALOGIES New Orleans:1899 accessed online. unknown
184838376Augusta GA: Printed at the Office of the Chronicle and Sentinel 1848. 32pp. Light toning and foxing. Frontis portrait of Taylor with facsimile inscription "Your obt Servt Z. Taylor." Good or better in later quarter morocco and modern marbled paper over boards. <br /> <br /> No consulted source records this Georgia printing among the several issues of this item with several variations in title. The Chronicle & Sentinel published at Augusta during the years 1837-1876. <br /> This Whig campaign document presents Taylor a Louisiana planter as the hero of the Mexican War. He surely had no other qualifications for the Presidency having never even previously voted. But it was enough for the Whigs to capture the Presidency for the second and last time. <br /> Not in Wise & Cronin Taylor Miles De Renne Sabin Eberstadt Decker. <br /> bound with SPEECH OF JOHN M. CLAYTON OR DELAWARE IN DEFENCE OF ZACHARY TAYLOR. Washington: 1848. 16pp. Caption title as issued. A few fox marks Very Good.<br /> bound with Botts John Minor: TO THE WHOLE WHIG PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES. Washington: Gideon. 1848. 16pp. Caption title as issued. Light wear and fox Good. <br /> The Virginia Whig argues that Henry Clay not the Mexican War hero Zachary Taylor should be the Whigs' presidential nominee in 1848. Botts argues that Clay is the embodiment of Whig principles; Taylor stands for nothing discernible. <br /> Sabin 6832n. Not in Haynes Tutorow Haferkorn.<br /> bound with Botts John Minor: TO THE WHIGS OF VIRGINIA. Washington: Gideon. 1848. 15 1 blank pp. Caption title as issued. Foxed Good. <br /> Botts supports Henry Clay the Party's candidate in 1844. Botts analyzes the vote in the 1844 election "when the largest Whig vote ever cast in the State was given for Mr. Clay." Taylor has made it clear that if nominated he will not be bound by Whig doctrines. <br /> Sabin 6832n.<br /> bound with GREAT WHIG DEMONSTRATION IN FAVOR OF THE NOMINATION OF GEN. TAYLOR TO THE PRESIDENCY. THE BUENA VISTA FESTIVAL AT PHILADELPHIA FEBRUARY 22 1848. Washington: Gideon. 1848. Caption title as issued 32pp. Printed in double columns. Very Good.<br /> "Nothing superior in the way of a Political Festival has occurred in this city for many years. All point to ZACHARY TAYLOR AS AN UNDOUBTED WHIG as THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE and capable to bear the Whig standard- as he bore the National Flag at Buena Vista." A lineup of distinguished Whigs gets on the Taylor bandwagon all showcased in this rare campaign pamphlet.<br /> Not in Eberstadt Decker Sabin Miles. OCLC 32271765 1- DLC as of May 2022. Printed at the Office of the Chronicle and Sentinel unknown
184834739Newport 1848. 24pp. Disbound printed in two columns per page. Light wear faint blindstamp on final leaf. Good<br /> <br /> 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." <br /> "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. <br /> Sabin 70526. OCLC 25797641 5 as of December 2021. unknown
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." A scarce pro-Calhoun anti-Crawford piece for the 1824 presidential election. <br /> 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 December 2024. unknown
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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> Not located on OCLC as of June 2026. unknown
185227980<p><strong>Boston Fugitive Slave Law Printing on Free Soil Party Broadsheet</strong></p><p>"<em>a vote for either of the former candidates is as truly a vote in favor of the sustenance defence and encouragement of American slavery in all its hideousness as a vote for the devil were a vote in favor of sin…</em>"</p><p>This broadsheet prints a summary of the three major party platforms—the "Compromise Democratic" Party the Whig Party and the Free Democratic Free Soil Party—headed with the injunction to "<em>Read Reflect and then Act!</em>" The second page includes the text of the Fugitive Slave Law or "<em>America's Bill of Abominations!!</em>" passed in September 1850 and an editorial by "Alexander" that explains the benefits of the Free Soil Party over the other two parties.</p><p><strong>ELECTION OF 1852. FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW.</strong> Printed Broadsheet <em>Boston Commonwealth</em> Extra July 1852. 2 pp. 25½ x 22 in.</p><p><strong>Excerpts</strong><br />"<em>The Platforms of the Parties. Read Reflect and then Act!</em>" p1</p><p>"<em>The Fugitive Slave Law! America's Bill of Abominations!!</em>" p2</p><p><em>"…Section 6</em></p><p><em>And be it further enacted That when a person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the United States has heretofore or shall hereafter escape into another State or Territory of the United States the person or persons to whom such service or labor may be due or his her or their agent or attorney duly authorized by power of attorney in writing acknowledged and certified under the seal of some legal officer or court of the State or Territory in which the same may be executed may pursue and reclaim such fugitive person either by procuring a warrant from some one of the courts judges or commissioners aforesaid of the proper circuit district or county for the apprehension of such fugitive from service or labor or by seizing and arresting such fugitive where the same can be done without process and by taking or causing such person to be taken forthwith before such court judge or commissioner whose duty it shall be to hear and determine the case of such claimant in a summary manner; and upon satisfactory proof being made by deposition or affidavit in writing to be taken and certified by such court judge or commissioner or by other satisfactory testimony duly taken and certified by some court magistrate justice of the peace or other legal officer authorized to administer an oath and take depositions under the laws of the State or Territory from which such person owing service or labor may have escaped with a certificate of such magistracy or other authority as aforesaid with the seal of the proper court or officer thereto attached which seal shall be sufficient to establish the competency of the proof and with proof also by affidavit of the identity of the person whose service or labor is claimed to be due as aforesaid that the person so arrested does in fact owe service or labor to the person or persons claiming him or her in the State or Territory from which such fugitive may have escaped as aforesaid and that said person escaped to make out and deliver to such claimant his or her agent or attorney a certificate setting forth the substantial facts as to the service or labor due from such fugitive to the claimant and of his or her escape from the State or Territory in which he or she was arrested with authority to such claimant or his or her agent or attorney to use such reasonable force and restraint as may be necessary under the circumstances of the case to take and remove such fugitive person back to the State or Territory whence he or she may have escaped as aforesaid. In no trial or hearing under this act shall the testimony of such alleged fugitive be admitted in evidence; and the certificates in this and the first fourth section mentioned shall be conclusive of the right of the person or persons in whose favor granted to remove such fugitive to the State or Territory from which he escaped and shall prevent all molestation of such person or persons by any process issued by any court judge magistrate or other person whomsoever.</em></p><p><em>Section 7</em></p><p><em>And be it further enacted That any person who shall knowingly and willingly obstruct hinder or prevent such claimant his agent or attorney or any person or persons lawfully assisting him her or them from arresting such a fugitive from service or labor either with or without process as aforesaid or shall rescue or attempt to rescue such fugitive from service or labor from the custody of such claimant his or her agent or attorney or other person or persons lawfully assisting as aforesaid when so arrested pursuant to the authority herein given and declared; or shall aid abet or assist such person so owing service or labor as aforesaid directly or indirectly to escape from such claimant his agent or attorney or other person or persons legally authorized as aforesaid; or shall harbor or conceal such fugitive so as to prevent the discovery and arrest of such person after notice or knowledge of the fact that such person was a fugitive from service or labor as aforesaid shall for either of said offences be subject to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and imprisonment not exceeding six months by indictment and conviction before the District Court of the United States for the district in which such offence may have been committed or before the proper court of criminal jurisdiction if committed within any one of the organized Territories of the United States; and shall moreover forfeit and pay by way of civil damages to the party injured by such illegal conduct the sum of one thousand dollars for each fugitive so lost as aforesaid to be recovered by action of debt in any of the District or Territorial Courts aforesaid within whose jurisdiction the said offence may have been committed…"</em></p><p>"<em>To the People of the United States!—The Issue Before the Nation!</em>" p2</p><p>"<em>We present you this Document for the Campaign in order that its doctrines may be scanned before the minds of men become steeled against the power of just reasoning by the intense zeal and party prejudice of an exciting election. It is a simple and earnest appeal to reason.</em>" p2/c1</p><p>"<em>The Free Democracy will favor the early policy of the country to limit localize and discourage slavery—the separation of national funds from banking institutions cheap postage a moderate revenue—the election of civil officers by the people—such internal improvements as are national and constitutional—the cordial reception of emigrants and exiles from the old world—the grant of the Public Lands free of cost to landless settlers—the immediate repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law—the recognition of the independence of Hayti—an arrangement in future treaties…</em></p><p>"<em>And the said party will oppose the exercise of doubtful constitutional powers—the demand for more slave States new slave territories and the nationalization of slavery—foreign interference with the right of a nation to govern itself.</em>" p2/c2</p><p>"<em>The intrepid Free Democracy have sought the arena of political strife with a determination to oppose each of these powerful clock-work organizations. They publish a platform which presents a point-blank contrast to either and both the others. They claim the support of the people because their policy is founded in Right and Justice; and because the application of that policy to governmental affairs cannot be secured by the triumph of any other party.</em>" p2/c3-4</p><p>"<em>While the attitude of the Free Democracy is that of a general championship of the rights of the humbler classes … its position upon the slavery question affords the great contrast and entitles it to the support of the lovers of Freedom and Right.</em>" p2/c4</p><p>"<em>Whigs and Democrats would sanction slavery by law. The Free Democracy forbid the high-handed endeavor.</em>" p2/c4</p><p>"<em>It follows that a vote for either of the former candidates is as truly a vote in favor of the sustenance defence and encouragement of American slavery in all its hideousness as a vote for the devil were a vote in favor of sin.</em>" p2/c4-5</p><p><strong>Historical Background</strong><br />The author of the editorial may have been Alexander De Witt 1798-1879 a former Democrat who joined the Free Soil Party and was one of the six signatories of the "Appeal of the Independent Democrats" in January 1854 in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.</p><p>President Zachary Taylor a Whig died in July 1850. His successor Millard Fillmore supported the Compromise of 1850 and enforcement of its stronger Fugitive Slave Law which made him unpopular in the North. At the Whig National Convention in Baltimore the delegates took 53 ballots to choose General Winfield Scott of New Jersey as their presidential candidate.</p><p>At the Democratic convention also in Baltimore it took 48 ballots to select dark-horse choice Senator Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire as their presidential candidate.</p><p>The Free Soil Party which opposed the extension of slavery chose Senator John P. Hale of New Hampshire as their presidential candidate. After the Compromise of 1850 many Barnburner Democrats and Conscience Whigs returned to their parties at the expense of the Free Soil Party.</p><p>With no major policy differences between the Democrats and Whigs the election became a contest of personalities between Scott the anti-slavery war hero of the Mexican War and the pro-slavery Pierce who though eighteen years younger had also served in the war.</p><p>In the election on November 2 1852 Pierce won 50.8 percent of the popular vote carrying 27 states with 254 electoral votes. Scott's 43.9 percent carried only 4 states with 42 electoral votes. Hale attracted 4.9 percent of the popular vote taking no electoral votes.</p><p><strong><em>The Commonwealth</em></strong> 1851-1853 was a newspaper published in Boston daily with occasional supplements under the motto "Circulate the documents<em>.</em>" In 1852 it became the official newspaper of the Free Soil Party in Massachusetts.</p><p>Condition: Very good overall.</p> Boston Commonwealth
186033068Washington City: Issued by the National Democratic Executive Committee 1860. 8pp caption title as issued. Disbound with light wear Good.<br /> <br /> Breckinridge Buchanan's Vice President was the 1860 presidential standard-bearer of the Southern Rights branch of the Democratic Party which had split with Stephen Douglas supporters during the 1860 nominating convention. Douglas had defied Buchanan and broken with him over the Kansas issue. This campaign piece demonstrating Northern support for the Breckinridge-Lane ticket charges the Douglas faction with unfairness hypocrisy and illegal attempts to silence the Southern Democrats at the abortive Democratic Convention at Baltimore. <br /> LCP 4504. Issued by the National Democratic Executive Committee unknown
