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18601253Washington City: National Executive Committee 1860. Folded but not bound or opened. Octavo. 8 pages. Very good with some light soil a few short edge tears two old horizontal fold creases and separation along spine fold of first and last leaves. Campaign pamphlet for the candidacy of John C. Breckinridge and John Lane for President and Vice President in 1860. Breckinridge was then Vice President under James Buchanan. These were the nominees of a Southern pro-slavery faction of the Democratic Party. <br /> <br /> This pamphlet uses quotes from speeches of these gentlemen and their opponents to argue that the election of any of the other three sets of candidates in 1860 would likely result in Civil War. The other tickets were: Stephen Douglas and Hershel V. Johnson Democratic John Bell and Edward Everett Constitutional Union and Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin Republican. [National Executive Committee] unknown
1852323680Np 1852. 16pp. 8vo. Removed with remains of later wrappers along the gutter margins of the first and last pages. 16pp. 8vo. Scarce piece of campaign ephemera relating to the election of 1852 which pitted Democrat Pierce against the Whig Winfield Scott. Pierce won in an electoral landslide. Sabin 91531 unknown
186432264Albany: Weed Parsons and Company 1864. 81-96 pages as issued. Each page printed in two columns. Disbound and lightly foxed Good. <br /> <br /> Emphasizing Lincoln's support among all lovers of the Union regardless of Party this campaign pamphlet paints the Democrats as treasonous followers of the Copperhead Congressman Clement Vallandigham. "The Vallandigham platform is merely an attempt of the Richmond authorities to run the blockade of Northern ballot boxes Montgomery Constitution in hand."<br /> Not in Sabin Monaghan or Bartlett. OCLC records eleven locations as of July 2015 under two accession numbers. Weed, Parsons and Company unknown
185640822New York: New York Tribune 1856. Caption title as issued 16pp. Disbound and wear. Good. <br /> <br /> After the Whig Party collapsed under the weight of the Sectional Crisis keen competition emerged among Democrats Republicans and Know-Nothings Americans for the support of its erstwhile members. This pamphlet urges anti-slavery Whigs to vote for the new Republican Party which fielded its first presidential candidate this year. <br /> A close examination of Fillmore's record particularly as Zachary Taylor's vice president reveals that he was no friend of that Whig President. Political expediency has caused him to trim his anti-slavery views: he is now a reliable ally of the South. Although standard bibliographies have failed to include this pamphlet it appears in OCLC under several accession numbers. <br /> FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker Miles. New York Tribune unknown
1832004517Retford: B. Dewhirst Printer 1832. Single sided printed broadside approximately 220mm x 280mm in size. Laid on to paper probably ex-library but no evidence of this. With light creasing and associated dust staining and a couple of small tears to foot before being laid down. Thomas Houldsworth 1771-1852 became the Tory MP for North Nottinghamshire at this election in 1832 having previously represented Pontefract and then Newton stepping down at the general election of July 1852 and dying a couple of months later. First Edition. Unbound. Good. 4to. Broadside. B. Dewhirst [Printer] Paperback
184439908Towanda PA 1844. Folio broadside 10-1/8" x 21." Printed in four columns each column separated by a rule. Light to moderate foxing light wear. Good. Signed in type at the bottom by thirty disillusioned local Democrats. <br /> <br /> Towanda is the county seat of Bradford County the residence of many of the signers including Judge Edward Herrick the first signer. This evidently unrecorded broadside illustrates the impending split in the Democratic Party along sectional lines over the issue of slavery. <br /> The signers are "steadfast" Democrats distraught that their Party has nominated James K. Polk of Tennessee as its 1844 presidential candidate. Polk known as the "Dark Horse" candidate "was thrust upon the party as the candidate by the intrigues and management of the NULLIFIERS! italics in original. The instructions and pledges of the delegates were disregarded and Mr. V. Buren and the Democratic party betrayed!"<br /> Clay "a statesman of the first order" has always sought to advance the national interest as opposed to parochial concerns. The signers defend his support of protective tariffs and the American System. They applaud his opposition to the annexation of Texas and his warnings that a war with Mexico would result in an expansion of the "odious" system of slavery. <br /> Not in Sabin or American Imprints. Not located on OCLC or the online sites of AAS U Penn U TN as of March 2025. unknown
187620530Cincinnati 1876. 16pp caption title as issued. Disbound lightly tanned Good or Very Good. <br /> <br /> A Democratic rally in this Republican State whose Favorite Son Rutherford B. Hayes would defeat Tilden in a very tight presidential election unmatched until the year 2000. Democrats ran on racism Republican corruption profligate public expenditures opposition to high tariffs and intrusive Radical Reconstruction and support for Jeffersonian limited government. Scarce OCLC locating copies only at the Western Reserve and Ohio Historical Societies. <br /> FIRST EDITION. OCLC 37877427 2. unknown
189443553n.p.: Hartman & Cadick 1894. First editions. Self wrappers. Good to very good. 8 pp. 8 pp. 8 pp. 8vo. The mid-term elections of 1884 were a disaster for the Democrats led by Grover Cleveland. Republicans and Populists in large part due to the efforts of Joseph Weeks Babcock 1850-1909 a Republican Congressman from Wisconsin who helped organize the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee in 1893 and was a major force in routing the Democrats in the 1894 House elections which cost the Democrats 113 of their 218 seats. They are most likely printed by Hartman & Cadick Republican printers. All follow the same format of quoting leading figures and using bold face type. 1: Caption title "If the Laboring Class be to Perish I Say the Whole Nation." A the head of the title: No. 1 - From the Congressional Record. The caption title is from the English Reformer William Cobbett followed by "You cannot reduce the laborer to a state of starvation and degradation without also destroying national prosperity" a quote from Joseph Norton Dolph 1835-1897 Senator from Oregon from one of his many speeches quoted here. OCLC locates only a single copy at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center. A very good copy docketed on front wrapper mail fold. 2: Caption title "The industrial side of the tariff controversy must not be overlooked. The four millions of people who work in our factory system are the most potent factors outside of agriculture in our civilization." - Hon. J. W. Babcock Wisconsin. A the head of the title: Record No. 3. Apparently unrecorded. We could find no copies in OCLC NUC or other reference sources. Chip to front wrapper else very good with docketing stamp. 3: Caption title "When you Rob the Laboring Men of their Employment you Rob the Farmers of their Customers." The quote from the caption title belongs to Charles Curtis 1860-1936 Republican from Kansas who would go on to become Hoover's Vice President. OCLC locates one copy at the Western Reserve Historical Society Library. A good copy browned some minor chipping docketing stamp on front wrapper. [Hartman & Cadick?] unknown
185218550np. 1852. Disbound with some loosening 8pp. Printed in double columns. Caption title as issued. Light tan and wear Good. <br /> <br /> An attempt to tar General Winfield Scott the Whigs' 1852 presidential candidate with abolitionism; and to promote Franklin Pierce who by contrast is "devoted to the constitution and defended the rights guarantied by that sacred instrument." <br /> The Whigs have pandered to the extreme abolitionists the Liberty Party crew and seek to "absorb the friends and followers of James G. Birney and Wendall sic Phillips into the bosom of the whig party which is now under the leadership of Wm. H. Seward who will be the controlling spirit of the government should General Scott be elected." Birney Phillips and Seward were of course anathema to southerners and indeed to many northern Whigs and Democrats who did not wish the slavery issue to threaten the maintenance of the Union. <br /> FIRST EDITION. LCP 11125. Not in Sabin Miles Eberstadt Decker. unknown
185243708Boston: Beals Greene & Co 1852. First edition. Stitched self wrappers. A very good copy scant foxing to wrappers vertical mail fold. 24 pp. Two columns. 8vo. At head of title: From the Boston post. Written in response to rumors and allegations from the Whig party that Franklin Pierce was religiously intolerant especially aimed at Irish Catholics. "in American political contests the searching questions ought to be ever as to a candidate ’Is he honest is he capable Is He Faithful to the Constitution’ while an approach to any thing like the popery cry of the British Tory party or an appeal to a sect as such ought to be severely denounced as violative of the spirit of our institutions." Also includes "vote of the towns" the convention of 1850 and the religious test amendments of the Constitution concerning religion Catholic sentiment and more. Not in Miles. Not in Sabin. Beals, Greene, & Co unknown
185226314Boston: Beals Greene & Co. 1852. Disbound 24pp printed in double columns. Light wear Very Good. <br /> <br /> The 1852 presidential campaign pitting the Democrat Pierce against the Whig Scott featured an unseemly competition for the votes of Irish Catholic immigrants. Whigs who were at a disadvantage in this contest charged Pierce with being an anti-Catholic bigot. "The object of the Scott politicians in making the charge of intolerance at this time against General Pierce is to obtain the Catholic vote. It is an appeal to a SECT IN RELIGION to get its members to vote a certain way in POLITICS." <br /> This pamphlet rebuts the charge demonstrating that Pierce supported extending equal rights to Catholics in New Hampshire via constitutional amendment. <br /> Not in Sabin Miles Eberstadt Decker. OCLC lists a number of institutional copies. Beals, Greene & Co. unknown
186440123New York: For Sale by the AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY Agents for the Publishers. 121 Nassau St. 1864. Oblong broadside 8" x 9-3/8." Couple of light fox spots not affecting illustration. Very Good.<br /> <br /> The broadside mocks the dissonance in the Democrats' 1864 presidential campaign. Candidate McClellan's acceptance speech supported a continued War Effort; but his Party's platform called for an end to the War. <br /> McClellan sitting backward on a jackass says "I am happy to say that -- the record of my public life was kept in view". The jackass however facing the other direction says quoting from the Chicago Platform "An immediate cessation of hostilities." <br /> Weitenkampf 145. Not in Reilly. OCLC 57744783 2- Boston Ath. NYHS as of June 2024. AAS also owns a copy For Sale by the AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY, (Agents for the Publishers.) 121 Nassau St. unknown
184838209Boston: Eastburn's Press 1848. 4 pp. Folded bifolium. Very Good. <br /> <br /> A scarce Whig 1848 campaign pamphlet prints Taylor's letters assuring wary northerners that this Louisiana planter and slaveowner could be trusted with the Nation's destiny. Taylor says he is "not engaged to lay violent hands indiscriminately upon public officers good or bad who may differ in opinion with me. I am not expected to force Congress by the coercion of the veto to pass laws to suit me or pass none. I would not be a partisan President." He says "I am a Whig but not an ultra Whig." <br /> Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker Miles. OCLC records four locations under several accession numbers as of April 2022. Eastburn's Press unknown
1812AQ31536Exeter: Printed by R. Cullum 1812. 152pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Very occasional light spotting. The sole edition of a collection of songs squibs and correspondences issued in the 1812 general election campaign in Devon contested between Tory candidates Edmund Pollexfen Bastard 1784-1838 and Sir Thomas Dyke Acland 1787-1871. Uncommon. OCLC and COPAC locate copies at just six locations in the UK BL Devon & Exeter Institution Exeter Manchester Oxford and Plymouth. And only five further elsewhere Chicago Dutch National Library Linkoping Sydney and Waseda. . First edition. 12mo. Printed by R. Cullum unknown
184041247Albany N.Y.: Thomas M. Burt. 1840. Caption title 8 pages pages 249-256. The 24 September 1840 issue. No. 32 of this short-lived periodical. Caption title printed in three columns per page 8 pages. Old folds chips at upper margin with a pinhole affecting two letters in the running title at page 250. Else Very Good. <br /> <br /> This Democratic periodical supports the Democratic Presidential ticket of Martin Van Buren and Richard Johnson. For State offices the Rough-Hewer favors William Bouck for Governor and Deniel Dickinson for Lieut. Governor. Presidential electors are listed by district.<br /> The Whig candidate William Henry Harrison is excoriated as are Whig banking and other public policies. <br /> AI 40-5891 5. Thomas M. Burt. unknown
184028849Albany N.Y. 1840. Folio issue of this short-lived periodical: October 15 1840. Caption title printed in three columns per page 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
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
189641421Chicago: Edwards Deutsch & Heitmann 1896. Elephant folio broadside 36" x 48" mounted on linen at time of manufacture. A graphic black-and-white campaign broadside for Republican William McKinley's 1896 presidential contest against Democrat William Jennings Bryan. Early folds with significant wear and splitting along folds including the backing several archival cloth tape repairs on verso. Moderate toning at the fold lines. Good only. <br /> <br /> "McKinley welcomes workers to U.S. mills W.J. Bryan welcomes foreign silver." Library of Congress copy of this print but reprinted in 1900 with the addition of large red type "McKinley was Right in 1896." <br /> Democrat Bryan favoring free coinage of silver and elimination of tariffs welcomes foreigners bringing to the Mint silver from India Germany England Mexico Japan China and elsewhere. Republican McKinley favoring the gold standard and tariffs to protect American industries welcomes prosperous American workers to American mills.<br /> "From Major McKinley's Address to His Old Comrades = In = Arms. - August 12th 1896."<br /> OCLC 20499606 1- Detroit Pub. Lib. as of April 2026. Edwards, Deutsch & Heitmann unknown
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
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
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
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
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
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
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