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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.<br/> <br/> "We have assurances from the best sources that Ohio will be ours in November"<br/> <br/> unknown
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.<br/><br/> "We have assurances from the best sources that Ohio will be ours in November"<br/><br/> unknown books
68334Coll. "Album de Famille", éd. Du May, 1993, in-4, cartonnage toilé, jaquette photo en noir éd., 87 pp., papier glacé, très nb. photos en noir, table des illustrations, Le passage aux urnes pour les français représente un rite immuable ! Superbes photographies en noir qui nous fait revivre ces bons moments ! Très bon état
a488791952. Prepared by the Staff of the Senate Minority Policy Committee August 1952. 4to. 119 leaves rectos only spiral bound wraps. University Library stamp on front. VG. paperback
184834421Bangor 1848. Folio sheet folded to 7-3/4" x 10". Printed on first page only; second page blank; third page with a manuscript letter urging the recipient whose last name is Chandler to campaign vigorously for the Taylor-Whig ticket. Very Good.<br /> <br /> A plea to get out the vote for Taylor. "If Gen. Taylor is elected he will be elected by the free and spontaneous action of the people uninfluenced by money or corruption.The signs are auspicious-- all that is wanted is union activity and organization." The printed letter is signed in type by Edward Kent J. Wingate Carr W.P. Wingate Wm. C. Hammatt Geo. W. Ingersoll and Moses L. Appleton.<br /> Not located on OCLC as of June 2026. unknown
184834421Bangor 1848. Folio sheet folded to 7-3/4" x 10". Printed on first page only; second page blank; third page with a manuscript letter urging the recipient whose last name is Chandler to campaign vigorously for the Taylor-Whig ticket. Very Good.<br/><br/> A plea to get out the vote for Taylor. "If Gen. Taylor is elected he will be elected by the free and spontaneous action of the people uninfluenced by money or corruption.The signs are auspicious-- all that is wanted is union activity and organization." The printed letter is signed in type by Edward Kent J. Wingate Carr W.P. Wingate Wm. C. Hammatt Geo. W. Ingersoll and Moses L. Appleton. unknown books
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
2012POL901MEditions Gascogne, 2012. In-8° Broché. 115pp. avec un cahier de photographies en couleur for texte.
1868WRCAM48472Brooklyn: D.S. Holmes 1868. Broadside 13 x 10 inches. Some small tears chipping and loss at top and right edges. Minor foxing. Very good. Broadside printed for the U.S. Presidential Campaign of 1868 which pitted former New York governor Horatio Seymour against Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. This broadside points out Seymour's Copperhead tendencies and statements made by him in 1864 linking him to similar sentiments made by the notorious traitor Benedict Arnold. Seymour's Copperhead utterances during the war haunted his campaign and he lost decisively to Grant. The text printed here strives to demonstrate: <br> <br> ".the points made by Horatio Seymour against the Administration in 1864 are identical point by point with those made by Benedict Arnold against Washington and the Continental Congress in 1780.The Copperhead chiefs of these times who draw so lavishly upon the sophistries and fallacies of 1780 for the furtherance of their factious designs cannot too well understand that the sequel to all this is endless disgrace. They must not expect to fight the Government with weapons of the Tories and of the blue-light Federalists without sharing the same fate." D.S. Holmes unknown books
1528404149.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
18261697Paris, Imprimerie-librairie J.G. Dentu, 1826 in-8, xvi-624 pp., basane mouchetée de l'époque, dos lisse orné, tranches marbrées. (quelques épidermures sur les plats)
185619546Washington 1856. 14 2 blank pp. Disbound partly loosened. Tanned with some foxing and light wear. Good. <br /> <br /> "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. <br /> FIRST EDITION. Cowan 222. Rocq 16684. Not in Eberstadt Decker. unknown
185623950Washington 1856. 16pp disbound printed in double columns. Last leaf browned else Very Good. This is one of several variant titles-- the first two clauses appear identical in all versions-- charging Fremont the first Republican presidential candidate with financial improprieties while disbursing officer in California in the 1840's. This one also accuses him of exaggerating his military achievements which were minimal at best. Cowan 222. Rocq 16684. LCP 1239. unknown books
185619546Washington 1856. 14 2 blank pp. Disbound partly loosened. Tanned with some foxing and light wear. Good. <br/><br/> "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. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Cowan 222. Rocq 16684. Not in Eberstadt Decker. unknown books
AQ21433Alnwick: Printed by M. Smith s.d. c.1882 Single leaf broadside. Lightly creased very short tear to one edge central horizontal fold. An apparently unrecorded notice by the Alnwick Board of Health calling on the support of the ratepayers of the area in an upcoming election. The Board makes clear their invaluable contribution in securing authorisation for the construction of a railway branch line between the town and nearby Cornhill. The line was begun in 1884 and completed in 1887. . Dimensions 290 x 440 mm. Printed by M. Smith, [s.d., c.1882] unknown
No marks or inscriptions . No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 147p. This issue includes WE Johns adult novels and stories, Algernon Swinburne poet, E Charles Vivian, collecting election ephemera, William Mayne's children's books, collecting WC Fields books, Flora Thompson and 'Lark Rise to Candleford', index and letters and classified..
0526098775.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
185227980<p><strong>Boston Fugitive Slave Law Printing on Free Soil Party Broadsheet</strong></p><p>"<em>a vote for either of the former candidates is as truly a vote in favor of the sustenance defence and encouragement of American slavery in all its hideousness as a vote for the devil were a vote in favor of sin…</em>"</p><p>This broadsheet prints a summary of the three major party platforms—the "Compromise Democratic" Party the Whig Party and the Free Democratic Free Soil Party—headed with the injunction to "<em>Read Reflect and then Act!</em>" The second page includes the text of the Fugitive Slave Law or "<em>America's Bill of Abominations!!</em>" passed in September 1850 and an editorial by "Alexander" that explains the benefits of the Free Soil Party over the other two parties.</p><p><strong>ELECTION OF 1852. FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW.</strong> Printed Broadsheet <em>Boston Commonwealth</em> Extra July 1852. 2 pp. 25½ x 22 in.</p><p><strong>Excerpts</strong><br />"<em>The Platforms of the Parties. Read Reflect and then Act!</em>" p1</p><p>"<em>The Fugitive Slave Law! America's Bill of Abominations!!</em>" p2</p><p><em>"…Section 6</em></p><p><em>And be it further enacted That when a person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the United States has heretofore or shall hereafter escape into another State or Territory of the United States the person or persons to whom such service or labor may be due or his her or their agent or attorney duly authorized by power of attorney in writing acknowledged and certified under the seal of some legal officer or court of the State or Territory in which the same may be executed may pursue and reclaim such fugitive person either by procuring a warrant from some one of the courts judges or commissioners aforesaid of the proper circuit district or county for the apprehension of such fugitive from service or labor or by seizing and arresting such fugitive where the same can be done without process and by taking or causing such person to be taken forthwith before such court judge or commissioner whose duty it shall be to hear and determine the case of such claimant in a summary manner; and upon satisfactory proof being made by deposition or affidavit in writing to be taken and certified by such court judge or commissioner or by other satisfactory testimony duly taken and certified by some court magistrate justice of the peace or other legal officer authorized to administer an oath and take depositions under the laws of the State or Territory from which such person owing service or labor may have escaped with a certificate of such magistracy or other authority as aforesaid with the seal of the proper court or officer thereto attached which seal shall be sufficient to establish the competency of the proof and with proof also by affidavit of the identity of the person whose service or labor is claimed to be due as aforesaid that the person so arrested does in fact owe service or labor to the person or persons claiming him or her in the State or Territory from which such fugitive may have escaped as aforesaid and that said person escaped to make out and deliver to such claimant his or her agent or attorney a certificate setting forth the substantial facts as to the service or labor due from such fugitive to the claimant and of his or her escape from the State or Territory in which he or she was arrested with authority to such claimant or his or her agent or attorney to use such reasonable force and restraint as may be necessary under the circumstances of the case to take and remove such fugitive person back to the State or Territory whence he or she may have escaped as aforesaid. In no trial or hearing under this act shall the testimony of such alleged fugitive be admitted in evidence; and the certificates in this and the first fourth section mentioned shall be conclusive of the right of the person or persons in whose favor granted to remove such fugitive to the State or Territory from which he escaped and shall prevent all molestation of such person or persons by any process issued by any court judge magistrate or other person whomsoever.</em></p><p><em>Section 7</em></p><p><em>And be it further enacted That any person who shall knowingly and willingly obstruct hinder or prevent such claimant his agent or attorney or any person or persons lawfully assisting him her or them from arresting such a fugitive from service or labor either with or without process as aforesaid or shall rescue or attempt to rescue such fugitive from service or labor from the custody of such claimant his or her agent or attorney or other person or persons lawfully assisting as aforesaid when so arrested pursuant to the authority herein given and declared; or shall aid abet or assist such person so owing service or labor as aforesaid directly or indirectly to escape from such claimant his agent or attorney or other person or persons legally authorized as aforesaid; or shall harbor or conceal such fugitive so as to prevent the discovery and arrest of such person after notice or knowledge of the fact that such person was a fugitive from service or labor as aforesaid shall for either of said offences be subject to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and imprisonment not exceeding six months by indictment and conviction before the District Court of the United States for the district in which such offence may have been committed or before the proper court of criminal jurisdiction if committed within any one of the organized Territories of the United States; and shall moreover forfeit and pay by way of civil damages to the party injured by such illegal conduct the sum of one thousand dollars for each fugitive so lost as aforesaid to be recovered by action of debt in any of the District or Territorial Courts aforesaid within whose jurisdiction the said offence may have been committed…"</em></p><p>"<em>To the People of the United States!—The Issue Before the Nation!</em>" p2</p><p>"<em>We present you this Document for the Campaign in order that its doctrines may be scanned before the minds of men become steeled against the power of just reasoning by the intense zeal and party prejudice of an exciting election. It is a simple and earnest appeal to reason.</em>" p2/c1</p><p>"<em>The Free Democracy will favor the early policy of the country to limit localize and discourage slavery—the separation of national funds from banking institutions cheap postage a moderate revenue—the election of civil officers by the people—such internal improvements as are national and constitutional—the cordial reception of emigrants and exiles from the old world—the grant of the Public Lands free of cost to landless settlers—the immediate repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law—the recognition of the independence of Hayti—an arrangement in future treaties…</em></p><p>"<em>And the said party will oppose the exercise of doubtful constitutional powers—the demand for more slave States new slave territories and the nationalization of slavery—foreign interference with the right of a nation to govern itself.</em>" p2/c2</p><p>"<em>The intrepid Free Democracy have sought the arena of political strife with a determination to oppose each of these powerful clock-work organizations. They publish a platform which presents a point-blank contrast to either and both the others. They claim the support of the people because their policy is founded in Right and Justice; and because the application of that policy to governmental affairs cannot be secured by the triumph of any other party.</em>" p2/c3-4</p><p>"<em>While the attitude of the Free Democracy is that of a general championship of the rights of the humbler classes … its position upon the slavery question affords the great contrast and entitles it to the support of the lovers of Freedom and Right.</em>" p2/c4</p><p>"<em>Whigs and Democrats would sanction slavery by law. The Free Democracy forbid the high-handed endeavor.</em>" p2/c4</p><p>"<em>It follows that a vote for either of the former candidates is as truly a vote in favor of the sustenance defence and encouragement of American slavery in all its hideousness as a vote for the devil were a vote in favor of sin.</em>" p2/c4-5</p><p><strong>Historical Background</strong><br />The author of the editorial may have been Alexander De Witt 1798-1879 a former Democrat who joined the Free Soil Party and was one of the six signatories of the "Appeal of the Independent Democrats" in January 1854 in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.</p><p>President Zachary Taylor a Whig died in July 1850. His successor Millard Fillmore supported the Compromise of 1850 and enforcement of its stronger Fugitive Slave Law which made him unpopular in the North. At the Whig National Convention in Baltimore the delegates took 53 ballots to choose General Winfield Scott of New Jersey as their presidential candidate.</p><p>At the Democratic convention also in Baltimore it took 48 ballots to select dark-horse choice Senator Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire as their presidential candidate.</p><p>The Free Soil Party which opposed the extension of slavery chose Senator John P. Hale of New Hampshire as their presidential candidate. After the Compromise of 1850 many Barnburner Democrats and Conscience Whigs returned to their parties at the expense of the Free Soil Party.</p><p>With no major policy differences between the Democrats and Whigs the election became a contest of personalities between Scott the anti-slavery war hero of the Mexican War and the pro-slavery Pierce who though eighteen years younger had also served in the war.</p><p>In the election on November 2 1852 Pierce won 50.8 percent of the popular vote carrying 27 states with 254 electoral votes. Scott's 43.9 percent carried only 4 states with 42 electoral votes. Hale attracted 4.9 percent of the popular vote taking no electoral votes.</p><p><strong><em>The Commonwealth</em></strong> 1851-1853 was a newspaper published in Boston daily with occasional supplements under the motto "Circulate the documents<em>.</em>" In 1852 it became the official newspaper of the Free Soil Party in Massachusetts.</p><p>Condition: Very good overall.</p> Boston Commonwealth
186033068Washington City: Issued by the National Democratic Executive Committee 1860. 8pp caption title as issued. Disbound with light wear Good.<br /> <br /> Breckinridge Buchanan's Vice President was the 1860 presidential standard-bearer of the Southern Rights branch of the Democratic Party which had split with Stephen Douglas supporters during the 1860 nominating convention. Douglas had defied Buchanan and broken with him over the Kansas issue. This campaign piece demonstrating Northern support for the Breckinridge-Lane ticket charges the Douglas faction with unfairness hypocrisy and illegal attempts to silence the Southern Democrats at the abortive Democratic Convention at Baltimore. <br /> LCP 4504. Issued by the National Democratic Executive Committee unknown
186040746Washington: National Democratic Executive Committee 1860. 32pp. Folded and untrimmed. Scattered light foxing. Very Good. Caption title as issued.<br /> <br /> 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. <br /> Sabin 7673 ref. Not in Miles LCP. National Democratic Executive Committee unknown
186033068Washington City: Issued by the National Democratic Executive Committee 1860. 8pp caption title as issued. Disbound tanned light dustsoiling. Good.<br/><br/> Breckinridge Buchanan's Vice President was the 1860 presidential standard-bearer of the Southern Rights branch of the Democratic Party which had split with Stephen Douglas supporters during the 1860 nominating convention. Douglas had defied Buchanan and broken with him over the Kansas issue. This campaign piece demonstrating Northern support for the Breckinridge-Lane ticket charges the Douglas faction with unfairness hypocrisy and illegal attempts to silence the Southern Democrats at the abortive Democratic Convention at Baltimore. <br/>LCP 4504. Issued by the National Democratic Executive Committee unknown books
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>
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> books
23688In-8 - Reliure cassée - 1871 - Table chronologique X & 328 pages + (4) de Table alphabétique - trous de vers aux 10 dernières pages sans incidence sur le texte
23689PARIS, Imp. Paul Dupont - 1871 - In-8 - 1/2 Reliure - dos lisse - N° 1 au N° 12 bis - 679 pages, y compris Sommaires, Table chronomogique & Table alphabétique des Matières - bon exemplaire
