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A FREE PASS. ENTITLING THE HOLDER TO THE TENDER MERCIES OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL PURIFYING ASSOCIATION WHO WILL GUARANTEE TO CLEANSE EVERY PARTICLE OF COPPERHEADISM FROM OUR NATURE- SO YOU WILL BE ABLE TO VOTE FOR AN HONEST MAN WITHOUT PREJUDICE. MEETING HOURS FROM 7 TO 11 P.M. EVERY DAY. FAITHFUL OFFICERS ALWAYS IN ATTENDANCE

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. 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. Weitenkampf page 140. OCLC 14137917 4- Lincoln Presidential Library Brown U IL Princeton 1360327631 1- DLC 1085916488 1- AAS as of May 2024. unknown

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[Election of 1848] [Adams, John Calvin]Biblio.com

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

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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

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A SIGNED AND WITNESSED WAGER BETWEEN ROBERT H. WATKINS AND JACOB K. SWOOPE ON THE OUTCOME OF THE 1840 PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST BETWEEN INCUMBENT PRESIDENT MARTIN VAN BUREN AND WHIG CHALLENGER WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

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. 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." 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." A calculation of States and bales can be seen at the bottom left corner in pencil. 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

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A SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF GEN. ZACHARY TAYLOR THE PEOPLE'S CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY WITH CONSIDERATIONS IN FAVOR OF HIS ELECTION

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. 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. 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. Not in Wise & Cronin Taylor Miles De Renne Sabin Eberstadt Decker. 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. 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. 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. Sabin 6832n. Not in Haynes Tutorow Haferkorn. bound with Botts John Minor: TO THE WHIGS OF VIRGINIA. Washington: Gideon. 1848. 15 1 blank pp. Caption title as issued. Foxed Good. 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. Sabin 6832n. 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. "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. Not in Eberstadt Decker Sabin Miles. OCLC 32271765 1- DLC as of May 2022. Printed at the Office of the Chronicle and Sentinel unknown

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[Election of 1848]Biblio.com

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 December 2021. unknown

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ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK ACTING UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK IN SUPPORT OF THE NOMINATION OF THE HON. DE WITT CLINTON TO THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES AT THE ENSUING ELECTION

181228331New York: Pelsue and Gould 1812. 28pp disbound. Some toning light wear. Good. Fueled by jealousy of Virginia's near-monopoly on the presidency New Yorkers urge the nomination of De Witt Clinton in order to deny President Madison a second term. The dangers of jealousy among the States require that "Virginia herself as she values the confederation should abdicate a situation which she cannot retain without wounding the feelings of her associates and weakening their attachment for our union." The Committee objects to nominations by "congressional caucus" which favors Madison. The Constitution requires that the President be chosen "by the States composing the Union in their separate sovereign capacities each state voting in the ratio of its population." The Committee also criticizes Madison's conduct of the War of 1812. The Address is signed in type at the end by 16 New Yorkers. AI 25250 7 26pp. Sabin 13725. Pelsue and Gould unknown

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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

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ADDRESS TO THE DEMOCRACY OF THE STATE OF NEW- YORK

184015487Albany N.Y. 1840. pp 89-96 large folded folio sheet printed in triple columns. Caption title as issued scattered light foxing Very Good. An Extra denominated No. 12 from the Rough-Hewer a Democratic Party campaign publication published from February - December The Address supports the Democrats' presidential candidate and New York's favorite son Martin Van Buren against the Whig candidate William Henry Harrison. The Whigs descendants of the aristocratic Federalists are "constantly struggling to create distinctions in society by legislation for the special benefit of individuals and classes thereby throwing into their hands a power and influence strong enough to control the suffrages of the people or set them at defiance." Resolutions and discussion of the issues all presented with great passion ensue. FIRST EDITION. AI 40-5891 5. Lomazow 392. Not in Mott. unknown

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AN ADDRESS TO THE CITIZENS OF NORTH-CAROLINA ON THE SUBJECT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

182334261Raleigh 1823. 15 1 blank pp. Caption title as issued. Disbound. Scattered light and moderate foxing. Good. Signed at the end in type: "November 1823. CAROLINA." A scarce pro-Calhoun anti-Crawford piece for the 1824 presidential election. When Calhoun decided to seek the presidency in 1824 "both Crawford and Adams the acknowledged front-runners felt betrayed" Crawford because Calhoun had reportedly assured him that he would defer to the older man and wait his turn; and Adams because Calhoun had said that "for the good of the country.the next President should come from the North." Peterson THE GREAT TRIUMVIRATE 116. Miles 3. Thornton 1750. AI 12071 1- DLC. OCLC 42212191 3- NYHS Duke UNC as of December 2024. unknown

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AN ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF RHODE-ISLAND: PROVING THAT MORE THAN EIGHT MILLIONS OF THE PUBLIC MONEY HAS BEEN WASTED BY THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION. 1828. BY A LANDHOLDER

182836773Providence: Office of the Republican Herald 1828. 28pp stitched untrimmed lightly worn Very Good. American Imprints but not Bartlett attributes authorship to Wilkins Updike. This is a high-pitched attack on the alleged profligacy of the Adams administration and a call for the election of Andrew Jackson. "A suffering people cry for reform" the author says. "Did one of you ever dream that the funds of this Government were expended in the purchase of BILLIARD TABLES BILLIARD BALLS CHESS BOARDS AND CHESS MEN and other toys to gratify the gambling propensities of the cabinet" A Jackson presidency will bring back "the days of good old President Jefferson." FIRST EDITION. AI 36986 7. Bartlett 8. Office of the Republican Herald unknown

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An Independent View of the Political Situation from a Farmer's Standpoint

188844744N.p.: N.p. 1888. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 15pp. Very good. Faint age toning only; strong single vertical fold not weakened. A tight and nice first edition of this surprisingly neutral review of the main candidates -- incumbent Democrat Grover Cleveland and Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison -- and the major issues of the campaign primarily the tariff reduction proposed by Cleveland. Harrison won though Cleveland recaptured the presidency in 1892. Subtitled "A Repeal of Taxes Will Not Lessen the Price to the Consumer. Distribute the Surplus to the States and Relieve the Counties from the Assessment of Taxes for State Purposes. Promote Temperance by Enforcing the Practical Policy of High License and Local Option as Against the Barren Ideality of Prohition or Nothing." Uncommon and in fairly nice condition given the low-quality stock. N.p. paperback

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ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF THE SUPPORT OF TAYLOR AND FILLMORE

184840827Washington: Gideon 1848. 8pp caption title as issued. Disbound and lightly foxed. Good. Letters from Whigs Caleb Smith of Indiana and Schenck of Ohio tell their fellows that they better vote the Whigs' 1848 presidential ticket despite their dismay at the nomination of Zachary Taylor. The alternative is the Democrat Cass whose election will "lead to large acquisitions of territory upon our Southern borders no restriction upon the extension of slavery.this mad career of conquest. The election of Gen. Cass will secure the complete triumph of the most ultra views of Slavery propagandists." FIRST EDITION. Wise & Cronin Taylor 27. Not in Sabin Miles Eberstadt Decker LCP. Gideon unknown

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Autographed Letter Signed about Martin Van Buren's chances in Ohio

1840273086Washington 1840. unbound. 2 pages front and back 10 x 8 inches written by George Folts of Washington City to his brother James at Albany New York October 3rd 1840 concerning their misguided notion that Martin Van Buren the Democratic Party nominee for President would win the State of Ohio in the Presidential election despite the fact that his Whig opponent William Henry Harrison resides there in part: ".We have assurances from the best sources that Ohio will be ours in November.at all events from present appearances our chance seems much the best. All eyes are turned towards the Empire State it is the battle ground if she will prove true to her best interests and all will be well. Mr. Durham the bearer of this formerly of Albany now a Clerk in this office leaves tomorrow. He is a clever fellow and a good Democrat." Note: George Folts received his Clerks job in Washington through the patronage system. Usual folds plus some pencil underlining; very good- condition. "We have assurances from the best sources that Ohio will be ours in November" unknown

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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. Not located on OCLC as of June 2026. unknown

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Battle Cry of Freedom or We'll Rally Round the Flag Boys

1864351793Philadelphia 1864. 1p. handbill. Woodcut of a Lincoln & Johnson campaign flag. 8-1/2 x 6 inches. Old folds some separations. 1p. handbill. Woodcut of a Lincoln & Johnson campaign flag. 8-1/2 x 6 inches. Scarce campaign handbill from the Election of 1864 with the lyrics to the popular Civil War song Battle Cry of Freedom the patriotic song song written in 1862 by American composer George Frederick Root 1820-1895. unknown

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Election of 1856Biblio.com

BLACK REPUBLICAN IMPOSTURE EXPOSED! FRAUD UPON THE PEOPLE! THE ACCOUNTS OF FREMONT EXAMINED; SHOWING AN ASTOUNDING DISREGARD OF THE PUBLIC INTEREST ONLY TO BE ACCOUNTED FOR BY EXTRAVAGANCE RECKLESSNESS OR AN UTTER WANT OF JUDGMENT!

185619546Washington 1856. 14 2 blank pp. Disbound partly loosened. Tanned with some foxing and light wear. Good. "Principally of his frauds in the purchase of horses in 1846 and 1847 while disbursing officer in California." Cowan. "Carelessness recklessness favoritism and connivance with the claimants." That's the verdict on Fremont. The pamphlet examines "the chief dealings of Colonel Fremont as a disbursing officer during the campaign in California whilst he commanded the volunteers" during 1846-1847. Tables facts figures are produced and analyzed. FIRST EDITION. Cowan 222. Rocq 16684. Not in Eberstadt Decker. unknown

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[ELECTION OF 1852 FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW].Biblio.com

Boston Fugitive Slave Law Printing on Free Soil Party Broadsheet

185227980Boston Fugitive Slave Law Printing on Free Soil Party Broadsheet"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…"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 "Read Reflect and then Act!" The second page includes the text of the Fugitive Slave Law or "America's Bill of Abominations!!" passed in September 1850 and an editorial by "Alexander" that explains the benefits of the Free Soil Party over the other two parties.ELECTION OF 1852. FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW. Printed Broadsheet Boston Commonwealth Extra July 1852. 2 pp. 25½ x 22 in.Excerpts "The Platforms of the Parties. Read Reflect and then Act!" p1"The Fugitive Slave Law! America's Bill of Abominations!!" p2"…Section 6And 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.Section 7And 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…""To the People of the United States!—The Issue Before the Nation!" p2"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." p2/c1"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…"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." p2/c2"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." p2/c3-4"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." p2/c4"Whigs and Democrats would sanction slavery by law. The Free Democracy forbid the high-handed endeavor." p2/c4"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." p2/c4-5Historical Background 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.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.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.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.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.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.The Commonwealth 1851-1853 was a newspaper published in Boston daily with occasional supplements under the motto "Circulate the documents." In 1852 it became the official newspaper of the Free Soil Party in Massachusetts.Condition: Very good overall. Boston Commonwealth

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BRECKINRIDGE AND LANE CAMPAIGN DOCUMENTS NO. 7. SPEECH OF HON. B.F. HALLETT OF MASS. IN WASHINGTON CITY JUNE 25 1860. MINORITY REPORT OF MR. STEVENS OF OREGON AGAINST THE EXCLUSION OF THE REGULAR SOUTHERN DELEGATES AT THE BALTIMORE CONVENTION. MR. LEACH'S PROTEST

186033068Washington City: Issued by the National Democratic Executive Committee 1860. 8pp caption title as issued. Disbound with light wear Good. 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. LCP 4504. Issued by the National Democratic Executive Committee unknown

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BRECKINRIDGE AND LANE CAMPAIGN DOCUMENT NO. 5. THE PUBLIC RECORD AND PAST HISTORY OF JOHN BELL & EDW'D EVERETT

186040746Washington: National Democratic Executive Committee 1860. 32pp. Folded and untrimmed. Scattered light foxing. Very Good. Caption title as issued. The Southern wing of the Democratic Party taking time away from its massive assaults on fellow Democrat Stephen A. Douglas attacks the Constitutional Union Party headed by John Bell of Tennessee. Bell is portrayed as an unprincipled friend of Compromise who often voted with the Abolitionists and is unsound on the Kansas Question and the Dred Scott Decision. Sabin 7673 ref. Not in Miles LCP. National Democratic Executive Committee unknown

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[ELECTION OF 1856]Biblio.com

185624482"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."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. ELECTION OF 1856.Printed Document. 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! 1856. 24 pp. 5 x 8½ in. Excerpts:Before Title: "Read and hand to your Neighbor.""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." 3"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." 4"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." 7"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." 8 and 9"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." 10"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." 19"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." 20"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." 23"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." 24"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." 24Historical BackgroundJames 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.John C. Frémont 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.ConditionDisbound minor pin holes very good.

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Portugal; Election LawBiblio.com

Carta De Lei De Nove De Abril De 1838 Para E Eleicao de Senadores.

1838609821838. Portugal Election Law. Carta De Lei De Nove De Abril De 1838 Para E Eleicao de Senadores E Deputados Half-title. Porto: Imprensa Constitucional 1838. 33 pp. Folding table. Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Light toning foxing to a few leaves early hand-lettered page numbers to upper corners of leaves. $75. The Portuguese law of 1838 governing national elections containing 92 articles with numerous statistical tables relating to district representation. unknown

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Election of 1872Biblio.com

CHAPPAQUACK MENDACITY OR PARTISAN MALIGNITY EVER THE SAME; AS SHOWN BY THE FACT THAT OUR MOST ILLUSTRIOUS PRESIDENTS HAVE BEEN MOST ABUSED

187215895np 1872. 8pp. Folded with caption title as issued. Light wear trimmed closely at the top without loss of text but affecting several page numbers. Good. Demonstating the abuses heaped upon our great presidents beginning with George Washington and ending with Grant. Charles Sumner whose criticisms of corrupt practices in the first Grant Administration were particularly sharp is excoriated. unknown

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[Election of 1864]: [New Jersey]: Congar, Horace NBiblio.com

Circular from H.N. Congar. To the Union Citizens of Newark New Jersey: From My Transient Home in the Far East I Send Greeting to the Union Men of My Native City.caption title and beginning of text

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." "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. A rare and unusual Lincoln campaign broadside with just two physical copies in OCLC at AAS and Middlebury College. unknown

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