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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>
18643721N.p. but most likely Newark N.J. 1864. Good plus. Letterpress broadside printed in two columns 16.5 x 10 inches. Old folds small chip to top outer margin two tiny holes affecting just a few letters. A very rare Unionist broadside supporting the re-election of Abraham Lincoln in the critical presidential contest of 1864. The present broadside was authored in early June 1864 by New Jersey Republican Party stalwart Horace N. Congar an editor diplomat and politician who was at that time serving as U.S. consul to Hong Kong. In this rather stirring broadside which Congar writes from his position in Hong Kong he lauds "the thousands of earnest faithful men who are giving freely of their blood and treasure to the suppression of this infamous rebellion" and "the noble daring the undaunted courage and the determined valour of our brave soldiers of Freedom" and urges that "in November New Jersey will stand in the unbroken rank of States giving their verdict for the Party of Union." He also spends considerable space discussing the clear role of "the social moral and political evil" of slavery as the precipitating event of the Civil War. Congar writes that "the evil it has wrought was as natural as the poisoned breath of the Upas tree." Stated clearly Congar writes "I heartily rejoice at the destruction of slavery" and looks forward to the time when "I shall tread my native land with a newer life if within its boundless domain there shall not be heard the clanking chain or the cry of the suffering and the oppressed."<br /> <br /> "Horace Newton Congar 1817-1893 was a radical republican politician during the midnineteenth century and served on both the state and national levels. Mr. Congar had a great love for his party and hope for its success which is reflected in his writing . Horace Newton Congar was born in Newark on July 31 1817. He married Isabell Reeves and had two children; a daughter Ella and a son Horace Junior. Horace Congar taught school for a while and he studied law in his leisure time. He was admitted to the New Jersey State Bar in 1847 and later Cornelius Boice of Plainfield and Lewis Grove of Newark were his law partners. Congar was a friend of the abolitionist cause and he was one of the founders of the antislavery Free Soil Party in New Jersey. The party slogan ‘Free Soil Free Speech Free Labor and Free Men’ basically described the party platform. Congar later became a delegate from New Jersey to the Republican National Convention in 1848 which was held in Buffalo. He supported the nomination of Van Buren for president and Adams for vice-president" - New Jersey Historical Society.<br /> <br /> A rare and unusual Lincoln campaign broadside with just two physical copies in OCLC at AAS and Middlebury College. unknown
18487855Washington 1848. 8pp caption title as issued. Disbound else Very Good. <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> 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. <br /> Not in Sabin Eberstadt. OCLC 24637860 1- Lancaster Hist. Soc. 976424705 1- U VA as of January 2021. unknown
184411033New-York 1844. 16mo. 152 28 adv. pp. Sewn lacks wraps. A bit of chipping at edges. Good to Good. <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> BAL 11051. AI 44-3548 5. unknown
187632441Washington 1876. 8pp caption title as issued. Disbound a bit roughly in the blank inner margin. Good.<br /> <br /> <br /> Despite its claims the Democratic Party is not "devoted to a pure high-toned efficient well-conducted civil service." In control of the House of Representatives the Democrats have turned out Union soldiers in droves and have appointed former Confederates to office in their place. Several columns listing names prove the point. <br /> OCLC records a number of institutional locations. unknown
18775770N.p. likely Springfield Il: ca. January 8 1877. Good. Three long galley leaves each approximately 6.5 x 19 inches and printed on rectos only with numerous pencil emendations. Old folds and creases numerous chips and tears to margins pervasive wrinkling making reading a bit challenging at times but with no loss to text. Small portion of third leaf containing the last eight lines of text detached but present. Not in great shape but seemingly unique. A galley proof of a speech by General John A. McClernand in the midst of the contentious Election of 1876 which was so far as we can determine neither delivered nor published. A pencil note at top reveals his authorship and notes the speech was intended to be delivered January 8 at the “Great Citizens Convention†in Springfield Illinois almost certainly in 1877 following the recent election in the Fall of 1876. McClernand was an Illinois contemporary of Lincoln's a Democratic Congressman and War Democrat. He was also an ally of another Illinois politician and Lincoln adversary Stephen A. Douglas. He was appointed a general during the Civil War largely through political maneuvering and was generally considered incompetent. McClernand greatly resented the authority of Grant who finally relieved him of command in June 1863. Following the war McClernand became a leading critic of Congressional Reconstruction as well as the Grant Administration in general. He also chaired the 1876 Democratic National Convention which nominated Tilden for the presidency.<br /> <br /> Here McClernand bitterly attacks Grant his presidential Administration and Reconstruction. According to McClernand Grant's "tastes and habits had been acquired in the field and the camp -- in implicit obedience or absolute command. He knew no other rule of action but the military law and army regulations. As a consequence he has lamentably failed as a civil administrator." As President fraudulently and illegally Grant "joined with Kellog a political adventurer and Durell a federal judge to overthrow the will of the people of Louisiana." Law and order says McClernand "lay prostrate and panting at the feet of her remorseless tyrants." McClernand also assails Grant's highhanded tactics in the other Southern States.<br /> <br /> Now says McClernand "the president and his accomplices have now applied themselves to defeat the will of the people by a parliamentary device. They claimed for the President of the Senate the right and power to count the electoral votes and to declare the result and by implication that that right and power would be so exercised as to count Tilden out of his election and to count Hayes into one." He wasn't wrong. In one of the closest most hotly-contested and highly-controversial elections in American history to put it simply Hayes effectively stole the election by agreeing to remove northern soldiers from the South and end Reconstruction. It would be interesting to know what McClernand thought of the ultimate result -- he didn't get Tilden but he did get the end of Reconstruction.<br /> <br /> "Yet another prominent Illinoian who played a role in the Civil War John Alexander McClernand was born in Breckinridge County Kentucky before moving to Shawneetown Illinois at a young age. Similar to fellow Illinoian Abraham Lincoln McClernand was a largely self-taught lawyer who began practicing in Shawneetown in 1835. Also like Lincoln McClernand served in the Black Hawk War. However McClernand was a staunch Democrat. In 1835 he established the newspaper Shawneetown Democrat. He was active in Democratic politics at both the state and federal level serving in the Illinois House of Representatives and eventually Congress. In Congress McClernand was a stalwart Jacksonian Democrat who strongly disliked abolitionists. He strongly opposed the Wilmot Proviso which banned slavery in the territory gained after the Mexican-American War. He became a key ally of fellow Democrat and Illinoian Stephen A. Douglas helping him pass the Compromise of 1850. As tensions rose approaching the election of 1860 McClernand campaigned for Douglas’s presidency and became a Unionist. After war broke out in the following April McClernand helped raise volunteers for the Union Army. Because Lincoln needed to retain a wide base of support and retain connections with Democrats in Illinois he appointed McClernand a brigadier general on May 17 1861. McClernand’s military career would be defined by an ongoing clash with fellow Illinoian General Ulysses S. Grant. Grant a seasoned West Pointer who served in Mexico was irritated by McClernand a political general with little military experience. Further exacerbating relations was McClernand’s tendency to boast about his exploits and diminish the achievements of other commanders" - American Battlefield Trust's entry on John A. McClernand. ca. January 8 unknown
188040342New York: Copyright by Geo. H. Hanks 1880. Metamorphic card 3-1/4" x 5-3/8" fully opened. Richly colored light wear Very Good.<br /> <br /> The unopened illustration depicts a dignified serious Hancock as a rooster in elaborate feathers. But when opened Hancock has lost his feathers is emaciated and bleeding from the mouth. The caption reads "November 2nd. 1880 Hancock Hancock Boo-Hoo-Hoo." Winfield Scott Hancock a decorated Civil War general and a hero of Gettysburg was the losing Democrats' presidential candidate in 1880 opposing Republican James A. Garfield. <br /> The verso entitled 'Rhymes for Young Democrats' brilliantly skewers the overt racism of the Democratic Party. It begins: <br /> "Sing a song of shotguns Pocket full of knives Four-and- twenty black men Running for their lives; When the polls are open Shut the nigger's mouth Isn't that a bully way To make a solid South" <br /> OCLC 32320004 1- Brown as of August 2024. Copyright by Geo. H. Hanks unknown
182836782Providence 1828. Elephant folio sheet folded to 4 pp each 15-1/4" x 22-1/2." Old folds toned several small holes and a fold split affecting a few letters. Good<br /> <br /> Issued only a month before the presidential election this paper leaves no doubt about where it stands. The Jackson-Calhoun ticket is the "BLOOD AND CARNAGE TICKET" condemning Jackson's duel with Dickinson his attempt "to assassinate" Senator Benton charging that he "he sheltered and caressed the infamous BURR at his house in 1806 and noting as well his tyranny in New Orleans and his butchery in Florida. Calhoun is "the head of the attempted rebellion in the South in 1828" a reference to Nullification.<br /> The paper endorses John Quincy Adams for a second term his first having been "singularly prosperous. unknown
186439322np. Milwaukee Berlin WI 1864. Broadside 6-1/8" x 11." Spotted small chip to blank upper corner. Good.<br /> <br /> Ezra Wheeler Wisconsin Democrat was serving his only term in Congress when he wrote this October 15 letter to his constituents in the Berlin Courant. He retired from Congress at the end of his term.<br /> Lincoln supporters reprinted the letter in this broadside for the edification of voters in Wheeler's Fifth Wisconsin District. Wheeler "cannot support McClellan and Pendleton without being false to his Country and false to the platform on which he was placed by the Democratic party of this district two years ago. . . As a loyal Union Democrat he now advocates and vote for the re-election of Abraham Lincoln." Wheeler explains that a Democratic victory "would inevitably be the separation of the Northern and Southern States and following that probably a division among the Northern States; and finally the destruction of our Government."<br /> We have not located a record of this broadside. <br /> Not located in Sabin Bartlett or on OCLC or the online sites of U WI Libraries AAS LCP Newberry Harvard Yale as of January 2024. unknown
003646Stourbridge: Mellard Printer Single sided broadside approximately 455mm x 285mm in size no place but probably Stourbridge and no date but 1859. A couple of small chips small hole to top left hand corner two closed tears to bottom edge slightly creased but generally in good order. Printed on blue paper the broadside relates to the 1859 by-election in Worcester East contested between the Whig Frederick Gough-Calthorpe and the Tory Sir John Pakington 2nd Baron Hampton where Gough-Calthorpe was elected with a majority of 339. This is an anti-Pakington broadside noting his personalisation of the campaign "The 'Printer's Devil' has exhausted his stock of I's" and quoting a newspaper article calling him a "bigoted Puseyite". The printer was probably Thomas Mellard of Stourbridge not located in BBTI who died in 1861. Not in Library Hub. First Edition. Unbound. Good. Elephant Folio. Broadside. Mellard [Printer] paperback
186440219Downieville CA 1864. Broadside ticket 2-3/4" x 3-7/8." Small mounting remnants on blank verso. Very Good.<br /> <br /> "Sierra County Republican ticket for the election of 1864 in which the national Republican Party temporarily adopted the name National Union Party. Henry Molineux was treasurer of Sierra County Calif. of which Downieville is the seat; see N.Z.R. Molyneux History genealogical and biographical of the Molyneux families Syracuse N.Y.: C.W. Bardeen 1904 p. 99-102." OCLC entry.<br /> OCLC 78931206 Brown BYU as of July 2024. The Lincoln Financial Foundation also owns a copy. unknown
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 October 2023. unknown
196441882vp 1964. Folio head and shoulders portrait of Lyndon Johnson with "JOHNSON FOR PRESIDENT" and "VOTE DEMOCRATIC" slogans; folded illustrated Goldwater pamphlet contrasting Johnson's "appeasement" with Goldwater's "peace through strength"; multi-colored printed letter from Dean Burch at Republican Campaign Headquarters supporting Goldwater; two illustrated broadsheets issued by Senior Citizens for Johnson and Humphrey "Why Older People FEAR Goldwater"; 20-page folio pamphlet issued by the Democratic National Committee showing the many deficits of Barry Goldwater; "COMMON SENSE by Barry Goldwater and William E. Miller. . . A Team You Can Trust"; broadsheet supporting their candidacy. Very Good plus. unknown
183229452Baltimore: Printed by Samuel Harker Republican Office. 1832. 10pp disbound light to moderate foxing Good. Contemporary ink correction to the imprint '1831' to '1832'.<br /> <br /> "Convention held May 21-23 1832 resulting in the nomination of Martin Van Buren." Wise & Cronin Martin Van Buren The names of a couple of hundred delegates are listed. Van Buren was nominated on the first ballot as Andrew Jackson's running mate with minimal competition from Richard Johnson and Philip R. Barbour. <br /> Wise & Cronin 53. AI 12123 4. Printed by Samuel Harker, Republican Office... unknown
188012838np 1880. 4pp folded sheet caption title light upper corner spotting. Very Good. The pamphlet supports the Republican platform urges payment in full of the public debt and protection for the Nation's bondholders. Denouncing the Democrats for urging an infusion of paper money which would injure the bondholders it reminds the voters that "In our desperate struggle with the rebellion it was the spotless credit of the Government that enabled us to conquer and to preserve the Union." Democrats then sought to undermine the public credit just as they do now. FIRST EDITION. 489 NUC 0186372 1. unknown
191240330Westmoreland County PA 1912. 4to broadside in bold type faces and fonts. A rather clumsy repair on blank verso to a horizontal fold split. Else Very Good.<br /> <br /> This broadside is a Who's Who of Jeanette Westmoreland County Pennsylvania citizenry. They apparently backed the losers in the three-way 1912 presidential election President Taft; former President Roosevelt who ran on the Bull Moose Ticket.<br /> John H. Trescher Proprietor and co-founder of Jeannette Dispatch. William Elkin postmaster. S. Clark Daugherty Drugs and Books. George H. Trimble Proprietor of Hotel Marian. Peter W. Carney occupation listed as "lab". John "Jack" Smith occupation listed as lab. Lowry A. Reese Shoes. Joseph M. Hart Bartender at Hotel Kramer. Jacob Cotter Bartender at the Miller House. John H. Young Bartender at the Hotel Jeannette. Elias Adolph Proprietor of New McKee. William C. Koerbel of Koerbel Brothers florists and sheet metal workers. Charles S. Shumaker of Shumaker Ringer & Foster. Henry Levy Levy Brothers Clothing and Men's Furnishings. Albert Vogel baker. William Euwer Furniture and Carpets. Edward M. Gaughen barber. Eleazer Katz clerk at Union Clothing Store. John W. Keltz cashier at First National Bank. H. Homer Miller Insurance and Real Estate Funeral Director and Embalmer. Taken from R.L. Polk & Co.'s Greensburg Derry Jeannette and Latrobe Directory for 1913 accessed at Ancestry website August 2024. <br /> Not located on OCLC as of August 2024. unknown
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 September 2024 or the online sites of AAS NYPL or NYHS. unknown
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 April 2025. Apparently the Ohio Historical Society and Western Reserve also own a copy. unknown
182834260Albany: Printed for the Albany Argus 1828. 32pp disbound and stitched. Title and several other leaves browned widely scattered foxing. Good. <br /> <br /> This is one of three 1828 issues all scarce printed in the heated presidential race of that year. Anti-Jackson forces charged that his unrestrained martial personality-- highlighted by executing six militia men after the Battle of New Orleans-- unfitted him for the presidency. New York Democrats defend Jackson denounce the falsehoods surrounding that incident and call the official record of the inquiry "useless rubbish." <br /> Howes J4. Wise & Cronin 232. Sabin 56778. Printed for the Albany Argus unknown
187632440Washington 1876. Caption title as issued printed in double columns. 15 1 adv. pp. Disbound else Very Good.<br /> <br /> A presidential-year attack on the Democratic Party for its "guerrila" tactics "striking in the dark using any and every means or weapon within reach." The Party's sad history reflects its "open rebellion for the destruction of the nation." The last page is an advertisement for The Republic "A Political Science Monthly Magazine" devoted to the principles of the Republican Party.<br /> OCLC 27289630 1- Johns Hopkins as of October 2015. unknown
186440557New York: Bromley & Company 1864. 19" x 24" lithograph broadside cartoon. Old tears repaired with tape on verso. Long horizontal tear at center has been reinforced by tape on verso. Light wrinkling and toning. The cartoon remains bold solid and intact. Good.<br /> <br /> "The first in a series of four harsh anti-Lincoln satires published by Bromley & Co. in New York. An imaginary dream of Jack Downing a comic Yankee character created in the 1830s by Seba Smith has Lincoln and some of his supporters and cabinet members as a band of undertakers about to inter the Constitution. <br /> "In 1862 displeased by Attorney General Edward Bates's slowness in enforcing the Conspiracies Act the President took matters into his own hands and issued a proclamation 'directing trial by court martial or military commissions of all persons who impeded the draft discouraged enlistments or committed other disloyal acts.' Around thirty-eight thousand people were arrested denied the right of habeas corpus and held in jail until brought to trial. This heavy-handed act provides the fuel for the artist's attack here. <br /> "Secretary Stanton is shown driving a hearse 'War Democracy' drawn by four horses with the heads of War Democrats left to right: John Cochrane Benjamin F. Butler Thomas Francis Meagher and Daniel S. Dickinson. Secretary Stanton says 'My jackasses had a load but they pull'd it through bravely. Cochrane: 'I pull for the side that pays the best always.' Butler: 'A million of dollars from New-Orleans'. . . <br /> "At right journalist Horace Greeley and Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner bury a casket labeled 'Constitution. Three other caskets 'Union' 'Habeas Corpus' and 'Free Speech Charge Express' wait nearby. Greeley: 'I guess we'll bury it so deep that it will never get up again.' Sumner: 'Be still you old fool. Let us first be sure that it is all under.' <br /> "A sober Lincoln watches with folded arms asking 'Chase will it stay down" Beside him treasury secretary Salmon P. Chase responds '. . . It must stay down. Or we shall all go up!' . . . <br /> "Abolitionist clergyman Henry Ward Beecher presides over the ceremony with a black child in his arms praying 'Not thy will oh Lord! But mine be done.' Above them Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton who has the legs and tail of a demon and holds a dagger flies off crying 'If it were done when 'tis done'." Reilly<br /> Reilly 1864-37. Weitenkampf 141. OCLC 647912979 2- AAS Clements 299947771 1- DLC as of December 2024. Bromley & Company unknown
185640839Washington 1856. 30 2 blank pp. Disbound else Very Good. <br /> <br /> This campaign document charges Republicans with stirring up "wild excitement" in Kansas. <br /> Democrats refuse "to undertake to determine why the God of nature made the African inferior to the white man; or why He permitted England to fasten the institution of slavery upon the colonies against their repeated and earnest remonstrances. Nor can we tell what Heaven in its wisdom may intend to work out of the relations of master and slave." <br /> This item supports Pierce Administration policies in the Kansas-Nebraska struggle and urges the decisive defeat of Republicans. <br /> FIRST EDITION. Sabin 35271. unknown
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 August 2021. Not in Miles. unknown
186438115New York: For sale by all News Agents. Price $1 per 100 1864. Broadside 9" x 11 1/2". One margin spot from removal of a gum label light uniform toning. Very Good. Printed in two columns separated by a rule. The Column on the left is headed "Baltimore Platform" for the National Union Republican Party; the right hand column is headed "Chicago Platform" for the Democrat-Copperhead Party. <br /> <br /> A Republican recitation of the Democrats' Platform and the Republicans' Platform in 1864 and an analysis of their 'Points of Difference.' "The Union platform looks to the ending of the war through the defeat and overthrow of the Rebellion while the Democratic contemplates peace through the virtual triumph of the traitors." The broadside exhorts "Freemen of the United States! read mark weigh resolve and VOTE! This is preeminently a contest regarding important principles and measures compared with which personal considerations are of small account." <br /> We conclude that this broadside was printed in New York as the legend "For sale by all News Agents. Price $1 per 100" appears in similar broadside material with a New York imprint.<br /> Sabin 63348. Not in Bartlett. For sale by all News Agents. Price, $1 per 100 unknown
189641421Chicago: Edwards Deutsch & Heitmann 1896. Elephant folio broadside 36" x 48" mounted on linen at time of manufacture. A graphic black-and-white campaign broadside for Republican William McKinley's 1896 presidential contest against Democrat William Jennings Bryan. Early folds with significant wear and splitting along folds including the backing several archival cloth tape repairs on verso. Moderate toning at the fold lines. Good only. <br /> <br /> "McKinley welcomes workers to U.S. mills W.J. Bryan welcomes foreign silver." Library of Congress copy of this print but reprinted in 1900 with the addition of large red type "McKinley was Right in 1896." <br /> Democrat Bryan favoring free coinage of silver and elimination of tariffs welcomes foreigners bringing to the Mint silver from India Germany England Mexico Japan China and elsewhere. Republican McKinley favoring the gold standard and tariffs to protect American industries welcomes prosperous American workers to American mills.<br /> "From Major McKinley's Address to His Old Comrades = In = Arms. - August 12th 1896."<br /> OCLC 20499606 1- Detroit Pub. Lib. as of April 2026. Edwards, Deutsch & Heitmann unknown
