Election of 1856ABAA
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185635989Baltimore: Printed at the Democratic Standard office 1856. 8pp. Caption title as issued. Disbound. Good.<br/><br/> In this election year the Democrat Barksdale examines the competition and finds it wanting. The Know Nothing American Party "is an oath-bound organization. It fetters the limbs seals the lips and ties the tongue of its initiates" all in the service of discriminating against immigrants "many of them among our most industrious and enterprising citizens." As for the "Black Republican" party "it sails under a black piratical flag." Pugh similarly warns against the Republican threat to the maintenance of the Union.<br/>OCLC records seven locations under two accession numbers as of June 2019 Printed at the Democratic Standard office unknown books
1788WRCAM52937Portsmouth N.H. 1788. Broadsheet approximately 14 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches. Previously folded with one small hole at lower central fold line. Slight curling at edges very light tanning and foxing. Very good. A rare broadsheet calling for New Hampshire representatives to be appointed to the Electoral College for the first presidential election under the Constitution in 1788. On Sept. 13 1788 Congress passed a resolution that electors should be appointed and in response this November 12 act of the New Hampshire legislature declared December 15 as the date to elect the state's representatives to both houses of Congress and to determine its electors for the Electoral College. New Hampshire was the first of the ten states that had ratified the Constitution at this point to hold its federal elections. We locate only two other copies at the American Antiquarian Society and Dartmouth. BRISTOL B6753. WHITTEMORE NEW HAMPSHIRE 458. unknown books
183219544Albany: Printed by Packard and Van Benthuysen 1832. 24pp. Disbound light fox and wear Good. <br/><br/> Jackson and his first Vice President John C. Calhoun had become enemies in the Nullification Crisis their polar opposition bringing them into conflict. New York's Martin Van Buren leader of Northern Democrats and a skilled political manipulator was the easy choice. These Proceedings record the Delegates by State the balloting and its result and the "Address of the Republican Delegates of the State of New-York" defending the President's record tracing Jacksonians' roots to Thomas Jefferson and warmly endorsing their Favorite Son. OCLC locates only four copies under two accession numbers. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Sabin 93603. AI 13888 1. Not in Eberstadt or Decker. Printed by Packard and Van Benthuysen unknown books
1828WRCAM53763Boston 1828. 8pp. Dbd. loose sheets. Minor toning and foxing. Good. A rare anti-Adams newspaper supplement published during the contentious election of 1828. THE BOSTON STATESMAN was established in 1821 by David Henshaw and his friends. The eventual editor was Nathaniel Greene who had trained at the New Hampshire PATRIOT in Concord N.H. Henshaw and Greene organized a dinner in Boston on Jan. 8 1828 in Andrew Jackson's honor and actively campaigned for him. Here the STATESMAN recounts the history of John Quincy Adams' political party which they label the "monarchy men of 1787." Additionally the paper covers Hamilton Adams and the Sedition Act along with the party's disloyal actions during the War of 1812 and the subsequent Hartford Convention. Rare and seemingly unrecorded in OCLC. unknown books
184415877Washington: Whig Executive Cong. Committee 1844. 16pp. Disbound. Good. A Whig argument for protection from foreign competition explaining the ruinous effects of Free Trade and the necessity to protect mechanics and industrialists alike from the dumping of foreign goods on the United States. The Whig ticket from Clay on down must be supported. FIRST EDITION. AI 44-6587 4. Not in Sabin. Whig Executive Cong. Committee unknown books
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
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 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 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 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
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
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
1713539311713. London 1713. 2d ed. London 1713. 2d ed. Scarce Eighteenth-Century English Treatise on Election Law Election Law. Great Britain. The Law of Elections: Being an Abstract of All the Statutes Now in Force Relating to the Election of Members to Serve in the House of Commons: In Three Sections Viz. The Duties &c. of the Electors The Elected And the Officers Returning. London: Printed for J. Nutt Assignee of Ed. Sayer Esq. for Jacob Tonson 1713. vi 126 6 21 3 pp. Half-title lacking. Octavo 6-1/2" x 4". Contemporary sheep blind frames and fillets to boards raised bands to spine rebacked retaining original backstrip hinges mended. Some rubbing with wear to corners a few large scuffs to boards. Toning to portions of text light foxing to a few leaves internally clean. $650. Second edition "continued to the end of the last session of Parliament 1713" which adds an addenda to the first edition of 1708. It was one of the earliest books on the subject. According to Sweet & Maxwell the first studies were Freedom of Elections to Parliament 1680 and Observations Concerning the Regulation of Elections for Parliament 1689 a work attributed to the Earl of Shaftsbury. OCLC locates 6 copies 3 in North America at the Library of Congress Harvard Law School and Stanford University. The ESTC locates 9 copies 8 in Great Britain 1 in North America at the University of Indiana. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:151 20. English Short-Title Catalogue T108633. 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
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
185236045Boston: Boston Commonwealth. Extra. 1852. Broadsheet 21-3/4" x 16". Recto printed in three columns; verso printed in five columns. Untrimmed light edge wear a few spots and old folds with several light crimps and one or two small separations at fold intersection affecting three or four letters. Good. "Boston Commonwealth. Extra." at head of title.<br/><br/> The broadsheet a dramatic illustration of the growing split in the Democratic Party supports the "Free Democratic" Party led by Senator John Hale of New Hampshire and George Julian of Indiana. A precursor of the Republican Party the Free Democratic Party was created by Northern Democrats who broke with the national Democratic Party which was dominated by southern pro-slavery men. The Free Democrats pledged "NO MORE SLAVE STATES NO SLAVE TERRITORY NO NATIONALIZED SLAVERY and NO NATIONAL LEGISLATION FOR THE EXTRADITION OF SLAVES." That bold promise is contrasted with the temporizing pro-slavery Platforms of the two major Parties-- the "Compromise Democratic Nominations" of Franklin Pierce; and the Whigs headed by Winfield Scott.<br/> The verso is headed in bold type: "The Fugitive Slave Law! America's Bill of Abominations!!" Its text with the signature in bold type of President Millard Fillmore is printed in five columns at the top half of the verso. The lower half is an address by "Alexander" "To the People of the United States!--- The Issue before the Nation!" Unlike the Whigs and Democrats the "Free Democracy will favor the early policy of the country to limit localize and discourage slavery. the immediate repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law." The Free Democratic Platform is printed along with that of the Democrats and Whigs. <br/>OCLC 83679097 2- NYHS Peabody-Essex 45737584 2- Boston Public Wellesley as of October 2019. Not located at the online site of AAS. Boston Commonwealth... Extra. unknown books
187339109Philadelphia: King & Baird 1873. 8vo 8.75". 206 pp. <br><br>Wrangling over a special election and the power of the conitituional convention. "The arguments are published from the stenographic report of R.A. West. Disbound retains front wrapper. King & Baird unknown books
188033295New York: Published by the National Republican Committee 1880. 32pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers with wrapper title as issued. Wrappers spotted at lower portion. Else Very Good.<br/>Miles 611. Published by the National Republican Committee unknown books
187231779np 1872. 4pp caption title as issued disbound. Printed in double columns. Disbound else Very Good. <br/><br/> The Republican Party has been the force behind the drive for an eight-hour workday law. President Grant Vice President Wilson and the Republicans established an eight-hour day for federal employees with no reduction in their pay.<br/>OCLC 54350146 10 as of January 2015. unknown books
184028849Albany N.Y. 1840. Two folio issues of this short-lived periodical: September 24 and October 15 1840. Caption title printed in three columns per page each issue 8 pages. Untrimmed and uncut widely margined light fox and wear. A few tiny holes in the October issue affecting a couple of letters. Good. <br/><br/> This Democratic periodical supports the Jackson-Van Buren credit and banking program and blasts the Whig William Henry Harrison. Its motto: "New-York must be redeemed." The Rough-Hewer warns of "The great money conspiracy between the British Whigs in England and America. The British Press and the British Fund Mongers are electioneering for Harrison." <br/>AI 40-5891 5. unknown books
187615828New York 1876. Caption title as issued. 4pp. Disbound. Very Good. unknown books
