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186433879Indianapolis 1864. Folio 8 ½" x 14". 16 pp folded. Poll Book preprinted with introduction columns and headings names of candidates etc. First 5 pages and final 4 pages completed in neat ink manuscript. The first page contains an introduction at the top half followed by names of voters up through #279 on page 5. At page 13 is the pre-printed certification filled in and signed by three officers followed by a list of both preprinted and added names of those on the election ticket and the offices they seek with number of votes received by each in manuscript. The final page contains the docketing information. Signed by Andrew Griffin David McKee and John D. Dource and filed on October 13 1864. Quite clean. Very Good. <br/> with Tally Paper. 17" x 28". Preprinted with heading columns and names of candidates and offices they seek. Some additional candidates added in manuscript with manuscript tallies and calculations. Old folds with a few short splits at corner folds a few splits repaired with archival tape on verso some soiling of verso. At the head of the document are the signatures of Andrew Griffin David McKee and John D. Dource judges; and Benjamin F. Reeve and J.R. Hunt clerks. Tally sheet docketed on verso as filed October 13 1864 by B.F. Tingley Clerk. Very Good. <br/><br/> During Indiana's 1864 gubernatorial election Oliver P. Morton ran on the Union ticket against Democrat Joseph McDonald. Morton had been elected Lt. Governor under Gov. Henry Lane in 1860. Lane resigned two days after being confirmed in January 1861 so that he could take a seat in the U.S. Senate; Morton succeeded to his office. Morton won the election by more than 20000 votes. <br/> Names of the 279 who voted include: Lewis Smith Bradford Z. Norris John B. Reeve Owen Reynolds John W.N. Hunt William Carney Henry Long Hiram Smith Henry Armstrong John Ryan Thomas N. Smith George W. Brown David Johnson Alexander FitzJarrell William Quail Francis M. Patterson George Gray Lorenso D. Richardson Richard W. McKee. <br/> Benjamin F. Tingley 1823-1904 served as the Clerk of Rush County from 1864 to 1872 and he was a member of the local Freemason lodge where he held the position of treasurer for a time. Others who signed off on these documents as judges and clerks were primarily farmers by occupation. unknown books
185217752Washington 1852. 8pp disbound caption title as issued. Printing flaw at page 2 affecting several letters Good. An 1852 Democratic campaign pamphlet rebutting the Whigs' libel that Pierce the Democrats' presidential candidate is an abolitionist. Several Congressional votes in which Pierce participated rather slender stalks for the Whigs to stand on in any event are earnestly and thoroughly rebutted. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker. See LCP 3805 for the Whig publication to which this item responds. unknown books
193410852New York: the Committee 1934. Pamphlet. 23p. staplebound pamphlet toned otherwise very good 4x6 inches. the Committee unknown books
193437561New York: the Committee 1934. 23p. staplebound pamphlet rubberstamp and other marking from an old CP library; a reading copy only. the Committee unknown books
184014460Washington: Gideon 1840. Caption title as issued disbound. 16pp. Scattered foxing pinhole knocks out one letter. Good. A very scarce Whig campaign document producing official messages and correspondence exposing the militaristic tendencies of the incumbent Martin Van Buren. Joel Poinsett was Secretary of War at the time. Another issue is entitled 'Plan of the Standing Army.' Not in AI Sabin Eberstadt Decker. 624 NUC 0263455 1. Gideon unknown books
1820703Caldwell New York 1820. Folio broadside. 465 x 280mm. 18" x 11 inches.  Folded in quarters couple of tiny separations along folds. Lightly toned moderately foxing. An attractive untrimmed copy. Signed in type by David Alden and Frederick Miller Chairman and Sec'y of the meeting respectively as well as by members of the Republican Central Committee at conclusion. A handsome broadside utilizing a good deal of large bold type. Warren County is situated north of Glens Falls on the eastern border of New York encompassing almost all of Lake George. Caldwell N.Y. now the village of Lake George at the foot of the lake was for a time the county seat of Warren Co. It had a newspaper from the eighteen-teens and separate imprints from as early as 1820. The Lake George Coffee House served as the first county court and the Republican i.e. Democratic Central Committee had its office in Caldwell. Not in OCLC or American Imprints for 1820. unknown books
182835196Bangor 1828. Folio broadside 9-1/4" x 20". Matted hinged at upper edge. Printed in three full columns. A few old folds Very Good.<br/><br/> The Convention met in Bangor on July 9 1828. After endorsing candidates for various State offices the Convention issued and printed its 'Address. to the Electors of the Counties of Somerset and Penobscot' focusing on the upcoming presidential contest. Praising the incumbent John Quincy Adams the Address proclaims "It is sufficient to say of him that talents of the highest order are joined to uncommon attainments. We would ask you to turn from the rantings of demagogues the bold fictions of an irresponsible press. Is not our country moving on peacefully and prosperously in the great march of improvement" <br/> Adams's opponent General Jackson is unsuited for the presidency: "His character has been formed as a military chieftain. He is rash headstrong impetuous and unreflecting-- that he knows no law but his own will." Example after example demonstrates Jackson's unfitness<br/>Not in American Imprints Sabin Wise & Cronin Jackson Adams or on the online sites of OCLC AAS Harvard Boston Athenaeum Bowdoin U Maine as of July 2018. unknown books
1868252282Washington: Union Republican Congressional Committee 1868. First. pamphlet. very good-. Stewart and Nye of Nevada Delivered in the United States Senate.July 9th and 10th 1868 on the bill offered by Senator Edmunds of Vermont to regulate the counting of the Electoral Vote. 8pp. in double columns. 8vo one sheet folded into 8 pages light foxing to margins otherwise very good. Washington: Union Republican Congressional Committee 1868. First Edition.<br/><br/> Speeches that are pro-Republican and pro-Union. The speeches advocate that the Democratic Party is in favor of Southern rights and not hard enough on the South in enforcing Reconstruction. Sabin 51020<br/><br/> Union Republican Congressional Committee unknown books
186815098Washington: Union Republican Congressional Committee 1868. 8pp Disbound caption title as issued. Printed in double columns. Good or so. <br/><br/> Democrats are accused of rejecting reconstruction "except upon the condition of the triumph of those who have been in rebellion." The Democratic ticket led by Blair and Seymour and its platform "are a declaration of renewal of the rebellion" resisting any attempt to protect the newly-won rights of freedmen and seeking to nullify the Acts of Reconstruction. Scarce NUC recording only the Library of Congress copy. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Sabin 51020. 396 NUC 0804998 1- DLC. Not in Eberstadt Decker. Union Republican Congressional Committee unknown books
184427020Washington: J. Heart Printer 1844. 4pp folded untrimmed. Lightly worn and dusted else Very Good. <br/><br/> A pro-Polk campaign document centering on the candidates' alleged differences over the Oregon Territory. "Whilst James K. Polk is pledged to retain the whole of this great territory Henry Clay is also pledged to surrender nearly one-half of it to England." The issue in the campaign is simple: "Clay and England on the one side Polk and America on the other. Shall the stars and stripes of the Union or the red cross of St. George wave forever over the Territory of Oregon Shall a republic or a monarchy be established within its limits." Eberstadt unaccountably suggesting an 1845 publication date calls this "a flaming circular.claiming the whole of the territory and apparently everything else from the Amazon River northward to the pole." <br/>110 Eberstadt 225. AI 44-1912 5. Not in Sabin Decker Smith Soliday Graff. J. Heart, Printer unknown books
1736633391736. Maryland Colonal Period;. Maryland Colonal Period;. Three Eighteenth-Century Works on English Election Law With an Interesting Maryland Association Great Britain. Election Law. Maryland Colonial Period. Orders and Resolutions of the Honourable House of Commons On Controverted Elections and Returns: Determining the Qualifications of Candidates and Voters; The Rights of Election for the Several Cities and Boroughs; The Nature of Evidence Proper on the Hearing; And the Duty of Returning Officers. The Statutes in Force Concerning Elections Are Also Pointed Out Under Proper Heads. With Additions. London: Printed for J. Stagg 1736. ix i 3-48-48 49-209 8 pp. Bound With The Statutes at Large Concerning Elections of Members to Serve in the House of Commons; Containing A Compleat Collection of All the Acts of Parliament Now in Force Which Relate Thereto Continued to the End of the Last Session of Parliament 1734. London: Printed by John Baskett Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty And Sold by Him Robert Gosling in Fleetstteet sic and John Stagg in Westminster-Hall 1734. vi 73 64-109 17 10 pp. The text is continuous despite pagination. And Cowley John Attributed. The Candidates Guide: Or The Electors Rights Decided. Shewing the Determination of the Rights of Elections By the Hon'ble the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament In All Contraverted Elections for the Counties and Boroughs in South Britain From the Year 1624 to 1730. Corrected and Improved. To Which is Added The Like Determinations in Contraverted Elections for North Britain Since the Union. With Several Resolutions and Standing Orders Relating to Elections Qualifications Returns Petitions and Proceedings in General. Together with the Head of the Statutes Now in Force Concerning the Same; And Several Adjusted Cases in Disputed Points of Admitting of Evidence on Hearings at the Bar of the House. The Whole Digested into Alphabetical Order With Proper References and Genuine Quotations. London: Printed for J. Brindley in New Bond-Street And Sold by Mrs. Dodd Without Temple-Bar And by the Booksellers of London and Westminster: Likewise in Most Great Towns in England 1735. 64 pp. 12mo. 6" x 4". Contemporary calf gilt spine with raised bands and lettering pieces. Moderate rubbing to extremities with some wear to spine ends unknown books
205133unbound. very good. Below are printed the names of the Presidential Electors and Republican statewide candidates from Connecticut for the election of 1884. Included are the successfully elected candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor Henry B. Harrison and Lorrin A. Cooke. N.p. 1884. Very good<br/><br/> unknown books
185610914Baltimore 1856. 16pp double columns disbound and lightly worn. Good. <br/><br/> "Old Line Whigs" descendants of the Henry Clay-Daniel Webster Party favoring a national government active in commercial affairs had nowhere obvious to go in 1856: their own Party had been destroyed by the Sectional Crisis; the new Republican Party was in their view a threat to the beloved Union; and the anti-Catholic bias of the emerging American Party was disgusting to many of them. <br/> This pamphlet urges them to vote for Buchanan: his Democratic Party is the only nationwide political organization remaining: disunion will result from its defeat. <br/>Sabin 59432n. LCP 7286. unknown books
5149PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1840. ALS. 2pgs. November 18 1840. Cincinnati Ohio. An autograph letter signed “J Burnet†by Ohio lawyer and politician Jacob Burnet 1770-1853. It is addressed to James Dunlap of Pittsburg. Burnet replies to Dunlap’s letter stating his concerns about Pennsylvania politics in light of the recent 1840 Presidential election in which William Henry Harrison defeated Martin Van Buren. Harrison would die only a month into his Presidency. Mentioning a “schism†at one point Burnet seems to anticipate the national divide that would eventually lead to the American Civil War although this may have referred to economic issues rather than the question of slavery: “Dear Sir I have received your letter of the 12th inst and read it with interest. The matter it contains…the view you have taken of the state of parties in Penna are highly interesting and are certainly entitled to serious consideration. The mixture of parties of which you speak as having taken place in the late struggle can not as you observe…There is reason to fear that when the cause which…the union the fruits of which we have just gathered shall warn so often at the repelling principle…will throw the parts from each other as far as they win before the conflict began unless something can be done to effect such a permanent combination as you refer to. I confess I now have understood the theory of party…as they have existed in and have agitated your state or the principles on which they have been found or by which they are…I can however easily…schism may be the result of such an injudicious course on the part of the…you are anxious to prevent. It would give mow me great pleasure to be instrumental in preventing the wit you depict so strikingly were it in my power. I was known unequal to the task because I have no claims to the confidence of the General beyond those of his friends generally not because in addition to this I could not point him to the parties or the persons as to whom he ought to be on his guard. A frank communication from a confidential friend in Penna who understands the whole subject would receive the attention it deserves. An intelligent Penna…can communicate the specific information necessary to show him the danger and the mode of avoiding it. Advice or caution in a care like this to have its proper influence should come from the power of information. Your views on the subject of claims founded on services rendered in the late political contest are precisely those I entertain and express on all occasions and I have reason to believe the General looks on the subject though the same medium and views it in the same light. If our motives have been patriotic our labor has been done for the country and success is our only legitimate reward. If they have been personal they are not praiseworthy and ought not to be rewarded. I am confident that president elect views the matter in that light and that he does not feel personal obligations to any body on account of no part taken in the contest. If this be not so I have very much misunderstood his character. Yours very respectfully J Burnetâ€. The letter is in very good condition with a loss to the back page that does not affect any content. A reminder of the eternal contention and controversy in American political elections. unknown books
1860WRCAM45168Cleveland: Nevins' Print Plain Dealer Job Office 1860. 188pp. Dbd. Ink pen trial on titlepage. Light wear in fore-edge of titlepage and upper margin of final text leaf. Two text leaves printed on slightly folded paper resulting in obscuration of some text. Good. The official record of a crucially important moment in American politics the 1860 Democratic Conventions at which Stephen A. Douglas won the nomination and faced Republican nominee Abraham Lincoln in the general election. The first convention was held in Charleston in late April and early May and was a rancorous affair. Douglas led the field of nine total candidates at Charleston over the opposition of militant Southern Democrats so-called "Fire Eaters". Despite the fact that fifty-seven separate ballots were held Douglas could not secure the necessary two-thirds majority of delegates. The delegates therefore adjourned and reconvened in Baltimore in June where the committee voted to exclude certain delegates from Louisiana and Alabama who had been disruptive in Charleston. Douglas finally secured the nomination on the second ballot in Baltimore and went on to lose the general election to Lincoln. The present text prints all the proceedings of the Charleston and Baltimore conventions offering a detailed picture of American politics at their most fractious. Nevins' Print, Plain Dealer Job Office unknown books
185622519New York 1856. 16pp stitched caption title as issued. Small institutional rubberstamp else Very Good. This campaign document shows the drift of northern Know-Nothings formerly Whigs to the new Republican Party. These conservative Union stalwarts cannot stomach the American Party candidate Fillmore's association "with the supporters of aggression and outrage in Kansas and persisting in such votes after it had been irrefragably proven that the elections in Kansas had been carried by armed bodies of men from Missouri." Moreover despite wild charges it has never been satisfactorily shown that Fremont is a Roman Catholic a sure disqualifier in mid-19th century America. FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin or Eberstadt. unknown books
187220482Washington: National Democratic Executive Resident Committee 1872. 8pp disbound with light inner margin wear else Very Good. <br/><br/> August Belmont and the Democrats pillory Grant promise not to mess with the Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution and laud Greeley and his fellow Liberal Republicans for opposing corruption in the Grant administration. A rare pamphlet also printed at the Globe Office in Washington OCLC noting 3 copies of the Globe printing. <br/>OCLC 47184217 1- W. Res. Hist. Soc. National Democratic Executive Resident Committee unknown books
18801406246th Cong. 2d Sess.: SR497. 1880. 28 469pp. Disbound. Very Good. The Democrat Wallace and his committee seek to demonstrate that Massachusetts Republicans "dismissed or threatened with dismissal from employment or deprivation of any right or privilege" anyone who didn't vote Republican in the fall elections. SR497. unknown books
194362854New York: the Committee 1943. 4p brochure illus. 5.25x8.25 inches. Campaign calls "For support of our Commander-in-Chief in the direction of the war" and "For maximum and uninterrupted production" among other platform points. the Committee unknown books
184427407New York 1844. 6.5" x 8" one leaf. Three light vertical folds. Very Good.<br/><br/> In the 1844 election New York City's voters cast 35% more votes than there were people. Charles P. Brown to whom this letter was addressed was on the Board of Assistant Aldermen for New York City from 1843-44 and was foreman of the grand jury investigating the anomaly. He was also assessor and town supervisor of Alabama New York; and a representative from Genesee County in the General Assembly. unknown books
182836782Providence 1828. Elephant folio sheet folded to 4 pp each 15-1/4" x 22-1/2." Old folds toned several small holes and a fold split affecting a few letters. Good<br/><br/> Issued only a month before the presidential election this paper leaves no doubt about where it stands. The Jackson-Calhoun ticket is the "BLOOD AND CARNAGE TICKET" condemning Jackson's duel with Dickinson his attempt "to assassinate" Senator Benton charging that he "he sheltered and caressed the infamous BURR at his house in 1806 and noting as well his tyranny in New Orleans and his butchery in Florida. Calhoun is "the head of the attempted rebellion in the South in 1828" a reference to Nullification.<br/> The paper endorses John Quincy Adams for a second term his first having been "singularly prosperous. unknown books
1856WRCAM53064Suffield Ct 1856. Broadside 17 x 10 1/2 inches visible area. Matted and framed. Light dampstaining at top edge light foxing. Very good. An attractive broadside advertisement that promotes a meeting of James Buchanan supporters the "Keystone Club" in Suffield Connecticut on Sept. 27 1856. The poster promises a number of speeches against the candidate of the newly-formed Republican Party John C. Fremont that assert the complicity of his supporters in the violence roiling Kansas. The key and virulent disagreement between the Democratic party for whom Buchanan was the nominee and the Republicans was over the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the issue of popular sovereignty which would allow the residents of new states to vote on the existence of slavery within their borders. This broadside accuses anti-slavery and pro-Fremont partisans in Kansas of fomenting violence there for political gain. The text reads in full: <br> <br> "Messrs. A.G. Howard C.W. Philleo and others will address the Keystone Club at the Town Hall in Suffield on Saturday Eve'g Sept. 27 1856. We make the charge that the troubles in Kansas are encouraged and kept alive by the supporters of Freemont sic in the hope of gaining political capital. And we can prove the charge!" <br> <br> The text is headed by an American eagle gripping arrows and olive branch in the style of the Great Seal. OCLC records only two copies of this interesting broadside at the Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut State Library. unknown books
186434855New York 1864. Broadside wood engraving oblong 9-5/8" x 7-7/8". Blank verso uniformly toned Very Good.<br/><br/> "Columbia repudiates Democratic presidential candidate George Brinton McClellan's endorsement of the platform devised at the August 1864 Democratic convention in Chicago. The text below the picture provides the dialogue descriptive notes and identification of the main characters. Columbia: 'What a shame that a man who was educated at my expense and whom I have since honored and petted should have allowed himself to be allured by ambition into such company and upon such a Platform! His Letter cannot conceal his real position nor hide those odious 'planks;' neither can it reconcile me to his traitorous companions. I DISCARD BOTH HIM AND THEM FOREVER'." Reilly <br/> Onlookers include the discredited James Buchanan Fernando Wood Horatio Seymour Clement Vallandigham Franklin Pierce and other Copperheads. <br/>Reilly 1864-22. Weitenkampf 144. OCLC 299946973 2- Lib. Cong. W. Res. Hist. Soc. 881054411 1- UCSB 81099323 1- Am. Phil. Soc. as of April 2018. unknown books
188013357np 1880. 4pp folded caption title as issued. A couple of closed margin tears expert inconspicuous repairs no loss and a few fox blotches. Good or so. <br/><br/> "Document No. 9" of the Democratic Party's 1880 campaign pieces. Hancock hero of Gettysburg accepts his Party's presidential nomination. Also printed is his 1876 letter to General Sherman demonstrating his obedience to civil authorities and constitutional processes as the chaotic election of 1876 worked itself out. unknown books
188028864Philadelphia: J.M. Armstrong & Co. Music Typographers and Printers 1880. 24pp stitched in original printed and illustrated wrappers worn at inner margin of wrappers with wrapper title as issued. Good.<br/><br/> Lots of songs with music celebrating the Republicans' Civil War achievements the life of 'Jim Garfield of the West' condemning 'The Bourbon Democracee' etc. The rear wrapper lists the number of each State's electoral votes. J.M. Armstrong & Co., Music Typographers and Printers unknown books