‎Election‎

‎Election of 1848‎

‎ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF THE SUPPORT OF TAYLOR AND FILLMORE‎

‎1848. Washington: Gideon. 1848. 8pp caption title as issued bound in modern wrappers. Printed in double columns. Bottom margin of first page trimmed closely eliminating part of the footnote identifying Gideon as the printer. Else lightly foxed and Very Good. "Please Circulate." Letters from Caleb Smith of Indiana and Schenck of Ohio tell Whigs they better vote for their Party's presidential ticket despite their feelings about Zachary Taylor. The alternative is the Democrat Cass whose election will "lead to large acquisitions of territory upon our Southern borders no restriction upon the extension of slavery.this mad career of conquest. The election of Gen. Cass will secure the complete triumph of the most ultra views of Slavery propagandists." FIRST EDITION. Wise & Cronin Taylor 27. 20 NUC 0395304 2. Not in Sabin Miles Eberstadt Decker LCP. unknown‎

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‎election of 1952‎

‎BACKGROUND MATERIAL MAJOR ISSUES OF 1952‎

‎1952. 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

Bookseller reference : a48879

‎Election of 1868‎

‎BENEDICT ARNOLD & HORATIO SEYMOUR! THEIR IDENTITY OF VIEWS. WHO IS TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE New York Times OF SEPTEMBER 19 1864 caption title‎

‎Brooklyn: 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 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: ".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

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‎Election of 1856‎

‎BLACK REPUBLICAN IMPOSTURE EXPOSED! FRAUD UPON THE PEOPLE! THE ACCOUNTS OF FREMONT EXAMINED; SHOWING AN ASTOUNDING DISREGARD OF THE PUBLIC INTEREST ONLY TO BE ACCOUNTED FOR BY EXTRAVAGANCE RECKLESSNESS OR AN UTTER WANT OF JUDGMENT!‎

‎Washington 1856. 14 2 blank pp. Disbound partly loosened. Tanned with some foxing and light wear. Good. "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. FIRST EDITION. Cowan 222. Rocq 16684. Not in Eberstadt Decker. unknown‎

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‎Election of 1860‎

‎BRECKINRIDGE AND LANE CAMPAIGN DOCUMENTS NO. 7. SPEECH OF HON. B.F. HALLETT OF MASS. IN WASHINGTON CITY JUNE 25 1860. MINORITY REPORT OF MR. STEVENS OF OREGON AGAINST THE EXCLUSION OF THE REGULAR SOUTHERN DELEGATES AT THE BALTIMORE CONVENTION. MR. LEACH'S PROTEST‎

‎Washington City: Issued by the National Democratic Executive Committee 1860. 8pp caption title as issued. Disbound else Very Good. 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. LCP 4504. Issued by the National Democratic Executive Committee unknown‎

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‎Election of 1844‎

‎CIRCULAR. BALTIMORE OCTOBER 16TH 1844. SIR: THE RECENT ELECTION FOR GOVERNOR GIVES US A STRONG HOPE THAT IF A VIGOROUS AND UNITED EFFORT IS MADE BY THE DEMOCRACY OF THIS STATE MARYLAND CAN BE CARRIED FOR POLK AND DALLAS.‎

‎Baltimore 1844. Folio printed sheet folded to 8" x 10". Caption title as issued. 1 3 blanks pp. Last page addressed to a man in Westminster Maryland and postmarked Baltimore Oct. 21. Old folds from mailing red seal remnant on last page. Very Good. Members of the Maryland Democratic State Central Committee pledge "that we are determined in Baltimore to do" all that is necessary for the Polk-Dallas ticket. This includes "the presence of Vigilance Committees at the opening of the Polls and their continuance there until after the counting of the votes." Baltimore was the scene of many riots in the first half of the 19th century political and otherwise. Not located on OCLC as of December 2017. unknown‎

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‎Election of 1848‎

‎CIRCULATE. PUBLISHED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE NATIONAL AND JACKSON DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE. TAYLOR WHIGERY EXPOSED. LETTER FROM THE HON. EDMUND BURKE‎

‎np 1848. 16pp caption title as issued. Tanned several leaves trimmed closely at the fore-edge with slight loss. Good. A rare 1848 campaign pamphlet attacking Taylor and sketching the biography of Lewis Cass a man "of the highest order of talent" who has filled "almost every grade of office from the lowest to the highest and most responsible in the service of his country. From the first start in life he has been a Democrat. He received the first office he ever held from that great apostle of Democracy Thomas Jefferson in 1807." Taylor by contrast is a "spectacle" as a candidate-- lacking any political opinions and without even a political party to which he can claim loyalty. A General in the Mexican War he nevertheless allowed himself to be the candidate of the Whigs "who have sympathised with the public enemy who have traitorously given him 'aid and comfort' who have voted for the disgrace of their country in Congress by alleging that the war was unconstitutionally commenced." FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin Miles Eberstadt Decker. Not located in NUC or on OCLC. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 19495

‎Election of 1856‎

‎CONNECTICUT AROUSED! GREAT DEMONSTRATION AT NEW HAVEN. SPEECH OF HON. HIRAM KETCHUM‎

‎New York New Haven 1856. Caption title as issued. 15 1 pp. Stitched scattered foxing. Good. Ketchum supports former President Millard Fillmore candidate of the American Know-Nothing Party for the presidency. He advocates the Nativist agenda fearful of the potential power of immigrants who are filling up the vast National Territories. "I have no objection that they should come but I ask that when they come they shall remain long enough to understand theoretically and practically the institutions and the habits of the people of this country before they exercise a control through the ballot-box." For when Roman Catholics "come here to alter and disturb our time-honored customs to exclude our Bible from our schools to separate their children from ours in the schools and attack our American usages which have come through all time it is time for us to take care of ourselves." On the slavery issue he assures his northern audience that Fillmore like other northern Whigs opposes the extension of slavery into the Territories. Fillmore's vice presidential candidate Donelson of Tennessee is of course another story. "Mr. Fillmore himself is in the very vigor and prime of life and I don't think that there is any chance of the Vice- President being President for the next four years." The final page advertises the 'Campaign Express' a pro-Fillmore periodical; and lists the American Party's 'Campaign Documents' for sale. Sabin 37644. OCLC 11064466 8. unknown‎

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‎Election of 1844 Kennedy John Pendleton‎

‎DEFENCE OF THE WHIGS. BY A MEMBER OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS‎

‎New-York 1844. 16mo. 152 28 adv. pp. Sewn lacks wraps. A bit of chipping at edges. Good to Good. An attack on the turncoat John Tyler who was the Whig Harrison's Vice President but betrayed the Whig cause after his own accession to the Presidency upon Harrison's death in 1841. The author supports Henry Clay for President. BAL 11051. AI 44-3548 5. unknown‎

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‎Election of 1876‎

‎DEMOCRATIC OPINION OF SAMUEL J. TILDEN. EXTRACTS FROM THE EDITORIAL COLUMNS OF THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER AND OTHER DEMOCRATIC PAPERS‎

‎New York 1876. Caption title as issued. Printed in double columns. 4pp. Disbound a bit roughly else Very Good. unknown‎

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‎Election of 1840‎

‎EXTRA GLOBE. WEEKLY‎

‎Washington: Blair & Rives 1840. Folio 8 3/4" x 12". 416pp. Nos. 1-27 of Volume VI; May 16 1840 - October 26 1840 plus No. 27 the final issue recording detailed election results from January 1841. Boards detached endpapers filled with local political tickets. Scattered foxing light wear about Good. A detailed contemporary report of the 1840 presidential campaign from the perspective of this Democratic publication. It begins with the Democrats' National Convention in Baltimore with the speeches proceedings and Address to the People. A campaign biography of Van Buren the Democrats' candidate and Blair & Rives's as well is included plus discussion of all the issues: slavery abolition internal improvements tariff banks the Whigs' repeatedly referred to as the 'Federal' Party in order to drive home the Democrats' point that the Whigs were descended from the discredited Hartford Convention Federalists muddled program and candidate William Henry Harrison "still shrouded in mystery. Blair & Rives unknown‎

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‎Election of 1880‎

‎GENERAL HANCOCK'S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE‎

‎np 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. "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

Bookseller reference : 13357

‎Election of 1888‎

‎GROVER CLEVELAND AND ALLEN G. THURMAN PRINTED NIGHT PARADE PAPER CAMPAIGN LANTERN‎

‎Ohio: Sprague & French 1888. 23-1/2" from top to bottom 18" diameter when open 7-1/4" across when closed. Eight panels printed with red blue green and black inks on yellow light blue and white backgrounds. Patriotic symbols and images on each panel. Two panels are portraits of Grover Cleveland with the words "For President Grover Cleveland" above and below the portrait. Two of the sides are portraits of his Vice-Presidential running mate Allen G. Thurman with the words "For Vice-Presidential Allen G. Thurman." Two sections feature illustration of eagle standing atop a shield; two feature a blue star; and two feature different vignettes. Decorative designs at head and base of each panel. Light dustsoiling and wear. Very Good. The paper lantern would have been attached to a wire frame which would make it appear to be inflated. A candle holder would be attached to the frame at the bottom. A candle would be placed inside the lantern so that it would be illuminated for the night parade. Sprague & French unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 36714

‎Election of 1856‎

‎ILLUSTRATED BROADSIDE ADVERTISING A MEETING OF JAMES BUCHANAN SUPPORTERS IN CONNECTICUT TO HEAR ANTI-FREMONT SPEECHES CONCERNING BLEEDING KANSAS‎

‎Suffield 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: "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!" 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

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‎Election of 1872‎

‎NO. 1. RECONCILIATION! BALTIMORE CONVENTION. SPEECHES OF MR. BELMONT AND MR. DOOLITTLE. PLATFORM. MR. GREELEY'S LETTERS‎

‎Washington: National Democratic Executive Resident Committee 1872. 8pp disbound with light inner margin wear else Very Good. 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. OCLC 47184217 1- W. Res. Hist. Soc. National Democratic Executive Resident Committee unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 20482

‎Election of 1860‎

‎OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION HELD IN 1860 AT CHARLESTON AND BALTIMORE. PROCEEDINGS AT CHARLESTON APRIL 23 - MAY 3. Prepared and Published Under the Direction of John Parkhurst Recording Secretary‎

‎Cleveland: Nevins' Print Plain Dealer Job Office 1860. 188pp. Dbd. Ink pen trial on titlepage. Light wear in foredge 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

Bookseller reference : WRCAM45168

‎Election of 1844‎

‎OREGON. PUBLISHED BY THE DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON D.C.‎

‎Washington: J. Heart Printer 1844. 4pp folded untrimmed. Lightly worn and dusted else Very Good. 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." 110 Eberstadt 225. AI 44-1912 5. Not in Sabin Decker Smith Soliday Graff. J. Heart, Printer unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 27020

‎Election of 1868‎

‎PEACE OR WAR. THE DEMOCRATIC POSITION ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK P. BLAIR JR. SPEECHES OF SENATORS MORTON OF INDIANA STEWART AND NYE OF NEVADA DELIVERED IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE.ON THE BILL OFFERED TO REGULATE THE COUNTING OF THE ELECTORAL VOTES‎

‎Washington: Union Republican Congressional Committee 1868. 8pp dbd caption title as issued. Printed in double columns. Good or so. 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. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 51020. 396 NUC 0804998 1- DLC. Not in Eberstadt Decker. Union Republican Congressional Committee unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 15098

‎Election of 1840‎

‎PLAN OF THE STANDING ARMY OF 200000 MEN SUBMITTED TO CONGRESS BY THE SECRETARY OF WAR AND RECOMMENDED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES‎

‎Washington 1840. Caption title as issued disbound. 16pp. Light scattered foxing Good. A very scarce Whig campaign document producing official messages and correspondence exposing the militaristic tendencies of the incumbent Martin Van Buren. Another printing by Gideon in Washington DC is entitled 'Plan of A Standing Army of 200000 Men.' Joel Poinsett was Secretary of War at the time. Not in AI Sabin Eberstadt Decker. 624 NUC 0263454 4. unknown‎

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‎Election of 1852‎

‎PLEASE READ AND CIRCULATE. "FRANKLIN PIERCE AND HIS ABOLITION ALLIES." np nd‎

‎Washington 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

Bookseller reference : 17752

‎Election of 1828‎

‎PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANTI-JACKSON CONVENTION HELD AT THE CAPITOL IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND: WITH THEIR ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA: ACCOMPANIED BY DOCUMENTS.‎

‎Richmond: Printed by Samuel Shepherd & Co. 1828. 38 2 blanks pp. Stitched untrimmed partly uncut. Browned and lightly to moderately foxed. Good in its unsophisticated state. This Virginia Convention of more than 200 delegates listed by County "feared the most pernicious consequences from the election of General Jackson and we have come to consult about the means of averting this calamity from our country." Although "many of you strongly disapprove some of the leading measures of the present Administration" President Adams's faults and errors are as nothing against the defects of Jackson's character which render him "altogether unfit for the presidency." An Appendix prints correspondence from Jackson's Florida campaign demonstrating his disregard for civilian authority and his arbitrary exercise of power. Swem 137. Sabin 100496. Not in Wise & Cronin or Miles. Printed by Samuel Shepherd & Co. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 28332

‎Election of 1840‎

‎PROPOSITION TO EXTEND THE BRITISH FUNDING SYSTEM TO THE UNITED STATES. THE HARTFORD CONVENTION LEADER OF THE BRITISH WHIGS NEGOTIATING FOR THE SALE OF THE LAND AND LABOR OF THE COUNTRY TO BRITISH FUND-MONGERS. FREEMEN! WILL YOU CONSENT TO THE TRANSFER THE MONEY POWER OF ENGLAND AND THE BRITISH WHIGS IN AMERICA- PROPOSITION TO MORTGAGE THE WHOLE COUNTRY TO THE BRITISH FUNDHOLDERS FOR THREE HUNDRED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS‎

‎Albany: Rough-Hewer Extra 1840. 8pp folio Extra of this short-lived New York Democratic periodical. Untrimmed and uncut generously margined. A couple of short margin fold splits light foxing. Good or so. A bombastic essay charging that the Whig Party is like the wolf in sheep's clothing in reality the old Hartford Convention Federalists a bunch of Anglophiles in disguise. Their policies and their conspiratorial "scheme" with England are "dangerous to the purity of legislation hostile to the genius of a free government and directly at war with our constitution." Not in Sabin or American Imprints. OCLC 37969403 3- NYHS LCP OH Hist. Soc. as of 5/12. Rough-Hewer Extra unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 28873

‎Election of 1852‎

‎READ AND CIRCULATE. FACTS AND FIGURES OR EXTRAVAGANCE AND GALPHINISM EXPOSED‎

‎np 1852. 15pp caption title as issued bound in modern wrappers dusted Good. An 1852 pamphlet defending the Whigs and Scott against Democrats' charges of extravagance; and rebutting their charge of corruption in settling the Galphin case in which the Taylor administration made payment to the heirs of a Georgia revolutionary war figure who had expended money in support of that struggle. The Democrats are the Party of extravagance and corruption: "He who shouted STOP THE THIEF most lustily was found with the Stolen Pig under his own cloak!" Not in Sabin or evidently NUC. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 17434

‎Election of 1872‎

‎RECONCILIATION‎

‎np 1872. 4 pp. Caption title as issued printed in double columns folded. Very Good. Unlike its northern rival the breakaway Liberal Republicans led by Horace Greeley the Republican Party will not overlook the continuing "violence of the stronger race over the feebler race" in order to achieve harmony and reconciliation. Nor will Republicans paper over their differences with the Democrats though "hand-shakings are certainly beautiful manifestations of personal regard by the owners of the extended dexters." Democrats justified slavery before the War; after the War they continue to champion State Rights and oppression of the Negro race. Republicans comprise the Party of principle: re-elect Grant. 484 NUC 0099291 1- DLC. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 15684

‎Election of 1876‎

‎SPEECH OF GENERAL JAMES M. TUTTLE OF IOWA AND OF HON. WM. A. WHEELER‎

‎np Des Moines 1876. Caption title as issued folded folio leaf untrimmed and uncut. Last leaf with some wear Good to Good. The Hayes and Wheeler Club of Des Moines rejoices in the defection of General Tuttle an old War Democrat to the Republican team. His renunciation of the Democratic Party "and its two-faced ticket" occurred "in response to a serenade by" the Club. Tuttle's speech re-fights the Civil War charging that Democrats have never accepted the War's results. Wheeler the Vice Presidential nominee warns of the evil designs of the former Slave States. FIRST EDITION. 605 NUC 0402645 2. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 14342