Election of 1848ABAA
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184815121Columbus 1848. 6 2 blanks pp. Caption title as issued disbound. Scattered foxing. Good. <br/><br/> Ohio's Whig State Central Committee seeks to galvanize its lethargic troops for the upcoming presidential election. Zachary Taylor is as one of his letters printed here assures "A WHIG AND SHALL EVER BE DEVOTED IN INDIVIDUAL OPINION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THAT PARTY." A "decided" Whig he is "not ultra." <br/>FIRST EDITION. Morgan Collection 8256. Not in Sabin Miles Wise & Cronin Taylor Eberstadt Decker. OCLC 1035828858 1- AAS as of January 2021. Apparently the Ohio Historical Society and Western Reserve also own a copy. unknown books
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
1848346068Washington D.C.: George S. Gideon 1848. Vol. 1 Numbers 1-18 plus a November 16 extra all published. 312pp. 4to. Contemporary half black morocco and marbled paper boards worn at joints and edges. Provenance: Truman Smith morocco label on the upper cover. Vol. 1 Numbers 1-18 plus a November 16 extra all published. 312pp. 4to. Scarce complete run of the weekly political newspaper "devoted to the support of Taylor and Fillmore" published during their campaign in the Election of 1848 which pitted the Whig Zachary Taylor against the Democrat Lewis Cass. The masthead features a woodcut of a horseback Taylor with his Mexican War troops firing a canon at Cass. In the final post-election Extra which includes the news of Taylor's victory the masthead has changed to the canon blowing Cass to pieces. The final page of the Extra comprises a prospectus for a New Series of the Battery.<br /> <br /> This example with provenance to ardent Taylor supporter Senator Truman Smith of Connecticut who served on the Whig Executive Committee of Congress and who contributed within the pages of the campaign newspaper. George S. Gideon 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
1828WRCAM56513N.p. 1828. Broadsheet 19 x 9 inches text printed in two columns on both sides. Old folds some chips to edges minor loss to upper left corner and closed tear to bottom edge no text affected. Two small holes affecting just one word a few areas of soiling light foxing even tanning. Manuscript annotations to verso. About very good. A rare broadside recounting Andrew Jackson's infamous execution of Private John Woods published in 1828 by Jackson's opponents during the 1828 election. There was considerable mud-slinging between the Jackson and Adams camps during that campaign which eventually saw the defeat of incumbent John Quincy Adams and the election of Andrew Jackson. This dense broadside recounts the events of March 1814 at Fort Strother during the Creek Campaign when Jackson charged John Woods an eighteen year-old militiaman with disobedience disrespect and mutiny. According to the text the trial itself only occurred because Jackson's soldiers would not shoot Woods' at the moment of the offense despite Jackson's cries to "Shoot the damned rascal!.blow ten balls through the damned rascal!" The court martial followed soon after; Woods was found guilty and sentenced to die. Some testimonies here state that Jackson offered to spare Woods' life if he would enlist in the regular army but Woods refused; others disagree. He was executed thirty-six hours later. <br> <br> Then follows the sworn testimony of several witnesses: Thomas Couch Robert Ferguson Samuel Hanna George A. Brock Isaac Roberts James Harris William Stewart Joseph Alexander Isaac Anderson Abm. Whitney and John Williams all fellow-soldiers of Woods who witnessed or had personal knowledge of the facts in the case. Their accounts of Woods' supposed mutiny substantially downplay the severity of Woods' disobedience suggesting that it was likely a misunderstanding; they also emphasize the draconian nature of the punishment and make several mentions of Woods' aging and infirm parents. Williams' account closes: "It is not true that Woods on the ground of Execution with oaths and defiance refused to promise obedience. On the contrary he wept loud and bitterly." All of the testimonies are datelined in Tennessee in the first few months of 1828. The nature of the printing lends itself to the possibility of a Tennessee press. <br> <br> Though not as famous as the "Coffin Handbills" that appeared at the same time listing Woods' execution among many other crimes by Jackson this was definitely addressed to the same audiences. John Spencer Bassett in his LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON notes that the "execution of mutinous militiamen in the campaigns of 1813 and 1814 was recalled to show Jackson's ferocious temper; and when a Philadelphia editor published a hand-bill showing a coffin with the victims standing by its side the idea was caught up eagerly and repeated in all parts of the country." <br> <br> Not in Wise & Cronin and we could find no listing for this broadside in OCLC or in American Imprints. It has only appeared at auction twice and then not since 1925 when Anderson Galleries offered a copy as part of the sale of the Henry De Puy collection which was strong in Andrew Jackson material. The only copy in the trade seems to be one offered by the Eberstadts in 1939. unknown books
18486729Washington: Towers 1848. 8pp disbound else Very Good with caption title as issued. <br /> <br /> A Whig attack on Michigan Senator Cass the Democrats' 1848 presidential nominee. His "love of the people's money" is evidenced by his expense vouchers-- printed here-- as Secretary of Indian Affairs. The failure of the Seminole campaign resulted from his "incompetency" as Secretary of War. He is "an old Federalist who denies his ancestry." <br /> The pamphlet attacks his 'Nicholson Letter' in which for the first time the concept of Popular Sovereignty-- permitting Territorial inhabitants rather than Congress to determine whether slavery should exist there-- was articulated. <br /> Sabin 11350. Streeter MI 612. Towers unknown
18486729Washington: Towers 1848. 8pp disbound else Very Good with caption title as issued. <br/><br/> A Whig attack on Michigan Senator Cass the Democrats' 1848 presidential nominee. His "love of the people's money" is evidenced by his expense vouchers-- printed here-- as Secretary of Indian Affairs. The failure of the Seminole campaign resulted from his "incompetency" as Secretary of War. He is "an old Federalist who denies his ancestry." <br/> The pamphlet attacks his 'Nicholson Letter' in which for the first time the concept of Popular Sovereignty-- permitting Territorial inhabitants rather than Congress to determine whether slavery should exist there-- was articulated. <br/>Sabin 11350. Streeter MI 612. Towers unknown books
1880197421880. Caption title as issued. 8pp with light wear and old folds. 'No. 86.' printed at top of first page. Good. A Republican campaign pamphlet arguing that the triumph of the 'Solid South' would impoverish the country. Southerners have "the conceit of political sagacity. It is their boast that this country will never be properly governed until Southern statesmanship shall again bear sway." But when the numbers are crunched the South has lagged behind the North in every index of economic prosperity. The Solid South's share of the "commercial industrial financial and educational interests of the country" is disproportionately small. Its pretensions to "dictate the course of the National Government" is absurd. OCLC locates 12 under two accession numbers. unknown
1880197421880. Caption title as issued. 8pp with light wear and old folds. 'No. 86.' printed at top of first page. Good. A Republican campaign pamphlet arguing that the triumph of the 'Solid South' would impoverish the country. Southerners have "the conceit of political sagacity. It is their boast that this country will never be properly governed until Southern statesmanship shall again bear sway." But when the numbers are crunched the South has lagged behind the North in every index of economic prosperity. The Solid South's share of the "commercial industrial financial and educational interests of the country" is disproportionately small. Its pretensions to "dictate the course of the National Government" is absurd. OCLC locates 12 under two accession numbers. unknown books
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
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 books
184028018New York: James P. Giffing 1840. 16pp caption title as issued. Disbound. Two full-page cartoon illustrations: 'Harrison and Prosperity' depicting a happy and industrious populace; and 'Van Buren and Ruin' portraying a deeply depressed community with a fat and happy manager of the Sub Treasury Office and an elaborately uniformed Standing Army in the background. Light dusting light scattered foxing. Small tear to one blank corner and two small corner chips no text loss. Good. <br/><br/> Miles attributes authorship to Jacob Bailey Moore the New Hampshire journalist; but Moore so far as I can tell was a Whig not an 'Old Democrat.' Harrison's sturdy character patriotism military service and opposition to Standing Armies in time of peace eminently qualify him for the Presidency. <br/> The Democrat Van Buren author of disastrous banking and economic policies is a Loco-Foco at heart and anti-democratic. "We have had EXPERIMENTS enough; and the next change ought to be a CHANGE OF RULERS."<br/>Miles 138. Sabin 16181. James P. Giffing unknown books
186436781New York 1864. Broadside 9" x 8-3/8." Lightly foxed. lower margin browned Good<br/><br/> McClellan the 1864 Democratic Party presidential candidate is depicted as a lion. His running mate George Pendleton as a lamb; and a wizard-like Sammy Barlow as their handler. "Sammy Barlow" is Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow 1826-1889 an owner of the New York World newspaper a successful lawyer and a noisy Democrat-Copperhead. He is occasionally called "Sammy Barlow" in satiric verse "the great peace-shrieker of New York city" vociferously advocating a Copperhead platform Philadelphia Evening Telegraph 24 September 1864.<br/>Not in Reilly or Weitenkampf. Located at the online sites of Library Company of Philadelphia Brown University and Free Library of Philadelphia which identifies the artist as Henry Louis Stephens a New Yorker . OCLC 77530460 1- Lincoln Pres. Lib. as of June 2020. unknown books
184534341Hamilton NY 1845. 1 3 blanks pp. Folded octavo sheet. Illustration of American Flag with "Polk and Dallas" ribbon surrounding it. Light wear and old folds. Very Good. <br/><br/> The invitation lists 24 'Managers' and Clark R. Nash and Alphonso Gilbert as 'Room Managers.' "TICKETS- $125 to be had at the Bar." The ball was to celebrate Polk's recent presidential victory and to commemorate General Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans on January 8 1815. Annual balls were held throughout the country on January 8th to celebrate this final battle including several in 1845 in New York. <br/> This ball was held at Hamilton Centre in Hamilton Madison County New York. The Managers were prominent Hamilton citizens. Smith John E.: HISTORY OF HAMILTON NEW YORK. Boston History Co.: 1899. unknown books
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
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
186836501New York: Currier & Ives 1868. Lithograph illustrated broadside by Currier & Ives oblong 11" x 15-1/2". Matted. Light dusting Near Fine. Cartoon characters identified by name; in lower right corner "on Stone by Cameron." John Cameron was a talented artist employed at Currier & Ives. In lower left corner "Thos. Worth. Sketch." Worth designed many cartoon broadsides for Currier & Ives. <br/><br/> "An election-year cartoon invoking both Grant's humble beginnings as a tanner and his successful Civil War military career. Popular New York governor John Thompson Hoffman dressed as an Indian the 'Great Sachem of Tammany' presents Democratic candidates Horatio Seymour and Francis P. Blair Jr. to Grant. He addresses Grant 'Here General is a couple more hides to be tanned when will they be done' Grant smokes a cigar and wears the leather apron of a tanner rolled-up sleeves exposing his muscular arms. He replies 'Well I'll finish them off early in November.' <br/> "At right corner former Confederate generals Robert E. Lee Simon Bolivar Buckner and John C. Pemberton hold their rumps and hop about in pain. They announce 'This is to Certify that we have had our hides tanned and that the work was by him thoroughly done." Reilly AAS's entry asserts "Issued well before 1868 election." <br/>Reilly 1868-11. Weitenkampf 159. OCLC 191119896 2- AAS Villanova as of January 2020. Currier & Ives unknown books
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
18567478Washington 1856. 30pp disbound. Lightly soiled light scattered foxing. A few pages clipped at bottom edge with loss of final line at affected pages. Very Good. <br/><br/>This campaign document charges Republicans with stirring up "wild exciitement" in Kansas for their own political benefit. The 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." This item supports Pierce Administration policies in the Kansas-Nebraska struggle supports popular sovereignty and urges the decisive defeat of the Republicans. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Sabin 35271. unknown books
188032465Washington 1880. 31 1 blank pp. Caption title as issued. 'No. 27.' at head of title. Disbound else Very Good. <br/><br/> The Platforms demonstrate the Democrats' commitment to State Rights Secession and disloyalty. unknown books
187632442Washington 1876. 8pp caption title as issued printed in double columns disbound. Good. <br/><br/> A Republican campaign pamphlet praising Reconstruction and denouncing the South's "pernicious heresies" particularly those of Calhoun Jefferson Davis Slidell and Yancey. The Confederate "was indoctrinated with a measure of political poison which the fire of battle intensified and consecrated rather than destroyed." Southerners have never given up "the Lost Cause." To entrust them and their supporters with the reins of government would amount to "compensation for past treason." <br/>LCP 7039. unknown books
1840339182Boston: Published by a committee of the Boston Harrison Club 1840. 24pp. 8vo. Disbound. Tear to the upper outer corner of the title not affecting text. 24pp. 8vo. A defence against allegations made by the Democratic Party in Oct. 1840 that James B. Glentworth acting as an agent for the Whig Party attempted to bring individuals from Philadelphia to fraudulently vote in New York during the 1838 and 1839 elections with warnings by a pro-Harrison group over the 1840 election. <br/><br/> Published by a committee of the Boston Harrison Club 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
185234357Washington 1852. Caption title as issued. 16pp. At head of title cuts of a farmer plowing with his team of horses; and an arm and hammer surrounded by a wreath. Disbound lightly toned or foxed else Very Good.<br/><br/> These Washington D.C. Democrats "possessed of no political suffrage ourselves" warn in this scarce campaign pamphlet against the election of Winfield Scott a career military man and the Whigs' 1852 presidential candidate. Of our past presidents "The only professional soldier was General Taylor who for upwards of forty years had devoted himself exclusively to his profession of arms. If the evils resulting from his election under which we are now suffering had tongues to speak to you you would not soon repeat that error."<br/> The enviable qualities of Franklin Pierce the Democrats' nominee and a perfect example of "the northern man with southern principles" are trumpeted. Trashing the short presidency of General Taylor the pamphlet finds telling parallels in the career of General Scott. "All who know him know his weakness his egotism his aristocratic haughtiness." To boot "General Scott's opinions on the slavery question are hostile to the interests and safety of the South and to the patriotic opinions of the northern democracy. He fraternizes with such fanatics as Seward Hale Sumner Garrison Phillips and Gerritt sic Smith." <br/>OCLC 23149127 5 as of October 2017. Not in Miles. unknown books
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
