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Election of 1848
CIRCULATE. PUBLISHED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE NATIONAL AND JACKSON DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE. GENERAL TAYLOR'S TWO FACES. 'LOOK UPON THIS PICTURE AND THEN UPON THIS'
Washington 1848. 8pp printed in double columns caption title as issued. Disbound else Very Good. A scarce 1848 campaign pamphlet attacking Whig presidential candidate Zachary Taylor who "has no political principles and is perfectly ignorant upon political matters." On the burning issue of the Wilmot Proviso-- whether slavery ought to exist in the territories acquired from Mexico-- Taylor is a hypocrite: "At the North he is represented to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso." But "at the South his advocates contend that he is opposed.because he is a southern man and a slaveholder and therefore identified with southern interests." A Louisiana slaveholder Taylor surprised everyone after his election when he supported immediate statehood for California with its anti-slavery Constitution. Wise & Cronin 44 Taylor. Not in Sabin Miles Eberstadt Decker LCP. unknown
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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 1856
CONSPIRACY DISCLOSED!! KANSAS AFFAIRS. READ! READ!! READ!!!
Washington: Published by the Granite State Club of Washington 1856. 24pp. Caption title as issued. Stitched untrimmed curled or lightly chipped at blank extremities. Printed in two columns per page. Very Good. Opposing the Republican Party and John C. Fremont's bid for the presidency this pamphlet charges that "Black Republican members of Congress" sought "to drive out pro-slavery settlers from Kansas which has resulted in the recent scenes of violence and bloodshed there." Proof of the charge is found in the published proceedings of the Emigrant Aid Society as well as other documents. The Republicans' purpose "of getting up a war in Kansas" is "to help elect Fremont. For the greater the disturbance in Kansas the more clear would be the apparent 'villainy' of repealing the Missouri compromise." Further proof is found in the proceedings "of the Black Republican Abolition Convention that nominated Fremont." The Conspiracy -- including participation by the "Coal-Black Republicans"-- is examined in all its details. Not in Sabin or LCP although there are a number of institutional locations. Published by the Granite State Club of Washington 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 REFORM. UNION SOLDIERS REMOVED TO MAKE ROOM FOR REBELS. WHAT THE DEMOCRACY HAS ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED. DISABLED UNION SOLDIERS TURNED OUT AND CONFEDERATES OF VARIOUS GRADES OF INCOMPETENCE PUT IN THEIR PLACES- A CARNIVAL OF IGNORANCE AND IMBECILITY- AND A FORETASTE OF WHAT WE MAY EXPECT UNDER TILDEN
Washington 1876. 8pp caption title as issued. Disbound a bit roughly in the blank inner margin. Good. Despite its claims the Democratic Party is not "devoted to a pure high-toned efficient well-conducted civil service." In control of the House of Representatives the Democrats have turned out Union soldiers in droves and have appointed former Confederates to office in their place. Several columns listing names prove the point. OCLC records a number of institutional locations. 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 1852
EVENING POST DOCUMENTS.- NO. 10. SPEECHES DELIVERED AT TAMMANY HALL NEW YORK CITY SEPT. 2 1852 BY HON. LEWIS CASS OF MICHIGAN. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS OF ILLINOIS.HON. BENJ. F. HALLETT OF MASSACHUSETTS. At head of title: Evening Post Extra.
New York 1852. 16pp untrimmed uncut and folded. Dusted lightly worn some spine splitting. Good. A Democratic Party rally during the 1852 presidential campaign endorsing "with joyous hearts the names of Franklin Pierce and William R. King as the favored standard bearers of our political faith in the present campaign. In looking over the troubles and darkness which hung around our National Convention the name of Pierce was discovered like an oasis in our desert to cheer and gladden us all." This is a variant printing. Our copy's title ends as noted above; the title of the other issue ends with 'Also Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 and 1799.' Our issue does not print those Resolutions. Pages 15-16 print the list of Evening Post Documents for the 1852 campaign. OCLC 319715221 2as of 7/12. See Sabin 89203 and OCLC 21984603 5 for the other issue. 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
GARFIELD AND ARTHUR CAMPAIGN SONG BOOK. PUBLISHED BY THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE WASHINGTON D.C.
Philadelphia: 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. 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
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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
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Election of 1868
GRANT AND COLFAX ELECTORAL TICKET. FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
Sacramento 1868. Electoral ticket 2-1/2" x 7-1/2" with a color illustration of a star-studded Lady Liberty and the American Flag. One small fox spot else Fine. The presidential electors included John B. Felton San Francisco lawyer and future Mayor of Oakland O.H. La Grange who became Superintendent of the San Francisco Mint D.B. Hoffman a San Diego physician and local politician Alfred Redington of Sacramento and Charles Westmorland a State Senator former Know-Nothing strongly anti-slavery. The candidate for Congress from the First Congressional District was Frank M. Pixley he lost but went on to found the well-regarded weekly 'The Argonaut'. unknown
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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
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Election of 1864
HOW COLUMBIA RECEIVES McCLELLAN'S SALUTATION FROM THE CHICAGO PLATFORM
New York 1864. Broadside wood engraving oblong 9-5/8" x 7-7/8". Blank verso uniformly toned Very Good. "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 Onlookers include the discredited James Buchanan Fernando Wood Horatio Seymour Clement Vallandigham Franklin Pierce and other Copperheads. 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
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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 1828
LITERARY CADET AND RHODE ISLAND STATESMAN. UPWARDS OF 4000 COPIES OF THIS PAPER ARE CIRCULATED WEEKLY
Providence 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 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. The paper endorses John Quincy Adams for a second term his first having been "singularly prosperous. 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
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Election of 1856
NORTH AMERICAN" DOCUMENTS. LETTERS FROM GEO. LAW EPHRAIM MARSH & CHAUNCEY SHAFFER
New 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
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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
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Election of 1856
OLD LINE WHIGS FOR BUCHANAN & BRECKINRIDGE LETTERS FROM HON. JAMES ALFRED PEARCE AND HON. THOMAS G. PRATT TO THE WHIGS OF MARYLAND. SPEECHES OF HON. J.W. CRISFIELD OF MARYLAND AND HON. JAMES B. CLAY OF KENTUCKY
Baltimore 1856. 16pp double columns disbound and lightly worn. Good. "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. This pamphlet urges them to vote for Buchanan: his Democratic Party is the only nationwide political organization remaining: disunion will result from its defeat. Sabin 59432n. LCP 7286. unknown
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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
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Election of 1852
PAPERS FOR THE PEOPLE. TO BE ISSUED WEEKLY DURING THE CAMPAIGN UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC DELEGATION IN CONGRESS. CONTENTS OF NO. II. LIFE OF PIERCE AND KING WITH PORTRAITS. WHIG NOMINATION AND PLATFORM. DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES. WHO ARE OLD FOGIES TROUBLE IN THE WHIG CAMP. LYRICS OF THE PEOPLE. "THE UNION-THE WHOLE UNION!" SATURDAY JULY 3 1852
New York: Published at the Office of the Jefferson Union 1852. Stitched pp 17-40 as issued plus portrait frontis of Pierce and a portrait of his running mate after page 26. Stitched scattered light foxing Very Good. The pamphlet is one of a series of 1852 Democratic campaign documents. This one rare with the portraits features portraits and biographies of the Party's 1852 presidential candidate Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire and his running mate William King of North Carolina. The Whigs by contrast are a bunch of Old Fogies. The pamphlet was also issued without the portraits and hence without the parenthetical phrase in the title. Sabin 58450. Not in Miles Eberstadt Decker. Published at the Office of the Jefferson Union unknown
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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
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Election of 1840
PLAN OF A STANDING ARMY OF 200000 MEN. SUBMITTED TO CONGRESS BY THE SECRETARY OF WAR AND RECOMMENDED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Washington: 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
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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 1868
PLATFORMS OF THE REPUBLICAN AND COPPERHEAD PARTIES. GRANT AND COLFAX'S LETTERS OF ACCEPTANCE. BLAIR'S THREAT OF CIVIL WAR. WHAT THE COPPERHEAD PLATFORM MEANS
Washington: Union Republican Congressional Committee. Printed at the Office of the Great Republic 1868. Caption title as issued. 8pp untrimmed and uncut folio leaf. Lightly foxed and worn Good. Printing the 1868 Republican platform adopted at the Chicago convention this document attacks the loyalty of the Democrats continuing to refer to them as 'rebels' and 'Copperheads' who oppose the Reconstruction amendments to the Constitution. Union Republican Congressional Committee. Printed at the Office of the Great Republic 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
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Election of 1832
PROCEEDINGS OF A CONVENTION OF REPUBLICAN DELEGATES FROM THE SEVERAL STATES IN THE UNION FOR THE PURPOSE OF NOMINATING A CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE OF VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Baltimore: Printed by Samuel Harker Republican Office. 1832. 10pp disbound light to moderate foxing Good. Contemporary ink correction to the imprint '1831' to '1832'. "Convention held May 21-23 1832 resulting in the nomination of Martin Van Buren." Wise & Cronin Martin Van Buren The names of a couple of hundred delegates are listed. Van Buren was nominated on the first ballot as Andrew Jackson's running mate with minimal competition from Richard Johnson and Philip R. Barbour. Wise & Cronin 53. AI 12123 4. Printed by Samuel Harker, Republican Office... unknown
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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
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ELECTION OF 1860
Proceedings of the New York Electoral College Held at the Capitol in the City of Albany December 4 1860
Albany: Weed Parsons & Company 1861. Hardcover. 8vo. Full limp brown blind-ruled calf with gilt lettering. 11pp. All edges gilt. Very good. Some wear at spine; front inner hinge cracked. Fascinating summary of this electoral college meeting with William Cullen Bryant and other notables in attendance resulting in 35 electoral votes for Lincoln. Scarce. Not in Monaghan Fish or Oakleaf. Weed, Parsons & Company hardcover
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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
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Election of 1888
Protection to American Labor and to American Industry caption title
New York: Ballin & Berman 1888. Very good. Large silk handkerchief approximately 18.5 x 21.5 inches. Printed in red and blue. Quarter-inch tear at lower right corner one small pinhole at upper right. A few very small patches of staining light dust soiling. A rare piece of ephemera from the U.S. Presidential election of 1888 touting the protectionist platform of the Republican party and its candidate Benjamin Harrison. The principal issue of the election was federal tariff policy with Harrison's Democratic opponent and incumbent Grover Cleveland promising a large reduction in tariffs if re-elected and calling the standing policy an unnecessary and unjust taxation. Harrison and the Republicans countered that maintaining the current rate would ensure high wages and economic growth. Harrison lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College and Cleveland retook the White House four years later. An attractive memento of the 1888 election and a reminder of the cyclical nature of American politics. We locate two copies at Cornell and the Library of Congress. Ballin & Berman unknown
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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
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Election of 1856
READ AND REFLECT!
np 1856. Folded old binder holes in blank inner margin. 16pp. Light wear and tan. Good to Very Good. A wild anti-Fremont attack charging that Republicans have violated "the most solemn treaties of the United States with the Indians" and have sought "to stop the wheels of government stir up strife and discord in the country and produce anarchy and violence in Kansas." This Democratic pamphlet asserts "The last and only hope of the Fremont men consists in blood violence and murder in Kansas." FIRST EDITION. Sabin 68197. unknown
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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
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Election of 1880
REPUDIATION
np 1880. 4pp folded sheet caption title light upper corner spotting. Very Good. The pamphlet supports the Republican platform urges payment in full of the public debt and protection for the Nation's bondholders. Denouncing the Democrats for urging an infusion of paper money which would injure the bondholders it reminds the voters that "In our desperate struggle with the rebellion it was the spotless credit of the Government that enabled us to conquer and to preserve the Union." Democrats then sought to undermine the public credit just as they do now. FIRST EDITION. 489 NUC 0186372 1. unknown
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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
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Election of 1856
SPEECHES DELIVERED BY THE HON. GEORGE E. PUGH SENATOR FROM OHIO AND THE HON. WILLIAM BARKSDALE REPRESENTATIVE FROM MISSISSIPPI BEFORE THE DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETING HELD IN BALTIMORE AUGUST 18 1856
Baltimore: Printed at the Democratic Standard office 1856. 8pp. Caption title as issued. Disbound. Good. 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. OCLC records seven locations under two accession numbers as of June 2019 Printed at the Democratic Standard office unknown
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Election of 1832
SUMMARY OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF A CONVENTION OF REPUBLICAN DELEGATES FROM THE SEVERAL STATES IN THE UNION FOR THE PURPOSE OF NOMINATING A CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE OF VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES; HELD AT BALTIMORE IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND MAY 1832: WITH AN ADDRESS TO THE REPUBLICANS OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK PREPARED BY THEIR DELEGATES IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE RECOMMENDATION OF SAID CONVENTION
Albany: Printed by Packard and Van Benthuysen 1832. 24pp. Disbound light fox and wear Good. 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. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 93603. AI 13888 1. Not in Eberstadt or Decker. Printed by Packard and Van Benthuysen unknown
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Election of 1828
SUPPLEMENT TO THE BOSTON STATESMAN. HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE NATIONAL OR FEDERAL REPUBLICAN PARTY
Boston 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
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Election of 1844
TARIFF DOCTRINE
Washington: 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
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Election of 1848
TAYLOR PLATFORM. WHIG COMMITTEE ROOM COLUMBUS SEPT. 25 1848
Columbus 1848. 6 2 blanks pp. Caption title as issued disbound. Scattered foxing. Good. 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." FIRST EDITION. Morgan Collection 8256. Not in Sabin Miles Wise & Cronin Taylor Eberstadt Decker. OCLC 37959007 3- AAS OH Hist. Soc. W. Res. as of June 2014. unknown
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Election of 1848
THE CASS PLATFORM
Washington: Towers 1848. 8pp disbound caption title as issued. Very Good. 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." The pamphlet attacks his Nicholson Letter in which for the first time the concept of Popular Sovereignty-- permitting the inhabitants of a Territory rather than Congress to determine whether slavery should exist there-- was articulated. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 11350. Streeter MI 612. Not in Miles LCP. Towers unknown
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Election of 1880
THE COMMERCIAL ASPECTS OF THE PRESENT POLITICAL CONTEST. HOW WOULD THE SUCCESS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AT THE APPROACHING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AFFECT THE COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS OF THIS COUNTRY np 1880
1880. 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
Bookseller reference : 19742
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Election of 1876
THE CONTRAST. REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATIONS REVIEWED AND CONTRASTED
Washington 1876. Caption title as issued printed in double columns. 15 1 adv. pp. Disbound else Very Good. 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. OCLC 27289630 1- Johns Hopkins as of October 2015. unknown
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Election of 1840
THE CONTRAST: OR PLAIN REASONS WHY WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON SHOULD BE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND WHY MARTIN VAN BUREN SHOULD NOT BE RE-ELECTED. BY AN OLD DEMOCRAT
New York: James P. Giffing 1840. 16pp caption title as issued. Disbound. Light dusting. Else Very Good. 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. 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. The Democrat Van Buren is the 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." Miles 138. Sabin 16181. OCLC records five locations under several accession numbers as of January 2016. James P. Giffing unknown
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Election of 1844
THE GLORIOUS EIGHTH. YOUR COMPANY IS RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED AT THE ASSEMBLY ROOM OF ARAH LEONARD AT HAMILTON CENTRE ON WEDNESDAY THE 8TH OF JANUARY NEXT AT 5 O'CLOCK P.M. TO ATTEND A POLK-ER BALL IN COMMEMORATION OF THE VICTORIES OF NEW-ORLEANS AND THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER 1844
Hamilton 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. 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. 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
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Election of 1856
THE ISSUE FAIRLY PRESENTED. THE SENATE BILL FOR THE ADMISSION OF KANSAS AS A STATE. DEMOCRACY LAW ORDER AND THE WILL OF THE MAJORITY OF THE WHOLE PEOPLE OF THE TERRITORY AGAINST BLACK REPUBLICANISM USURPATION REVOLUTION ANARCHY AND THE WILL OF A MEAGRE MINORITY. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
Washington 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. 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. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 35271. unknown
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Election of 1880
THE NATIONAL PLATFORMS OF THE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC PARTIES FROM 1856 TO 1880 INCLUSIVE
Washington 1880. 31 1 blank pp. Caption title as issued. 'No. 27.' at head of title. Disbound else Very Good. The Platforms demonstrate the Democrats' commitment to State Rights Secession and disloyalty. unknown
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Election of 1876
THE NEW CONSPIRACY. WHAT IS MEANT BY THE RESTORATION OF THE CONFEDERATE DEMOCRACY TO POWER- THE VITAL ISSUES OF 1876 CONSIDERED
Washington 1876. 8pp caption title as issued printed in double columns disbound. Good. 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." LCP 7039. unknown
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Election of 1840 Boneyshanks pseud
THE NEW ERA WHIG TRAP SPRUNG
New York and Washington: Printed & Published by H.R. Robinson 52 Courtland St. Y.N. sic & Penns Avenue Washington D.C. 1840. Broadside lithograph 12-1/2" x 15-3/4". Signed 'Boneyshanks' in the lower left corner. A rare lithograph brilliantly and humorously portraying the Democrats' and Van Buren's predicament in the 1840 presidential election. Scuffing to a few letters in the publisher information else about Fine. "Democratic efforts to reelect Martin Van Buren are portrayed as hopeless in the face of broad popular support for Whig candidate William Henry Harrison. Here one of Harrison's campaign emblems a log cabin is a trap imprisoning the incumbent. The cabin's timbers are labeled with names of twenty states and its roof with 'Maine.' Its chimney is a cider barrel another Harrison campaign symbol on which sits an eagle. Jackson tries to lift the cabin with a 'Hickory' lever braced against a cotton bale 'New-Orleans.' This refers to the Democratic attempts to exploit the personal popularity of the 'hero of New Orleans' in the western United States. To Jackson's frustration the cabin is wedged tightly against an embankment of 'Clay'-- Henry Clay being the Whigs' drawing card for the West. Van Buren pointing to the mound of 'Clay' says 'Why General it is of no use trying there is no hope in the North and East and don't you see the West end is all chinked up with Clay except one small corner where Benton sits . . . while Calhoun has nullified himself and me at the South. I have made up my mind to go to Kinderhook as soon as I get specie enough in the Sub Treasury to pay me my salary and would advise you to go to the Deserts of Arabia.' "Jackson admonishes him 'Why Matty my boy! What have you been about to let those d---d British Whigs get you in such a fix.' "The print is signed 'Boneyshanks' more than likely a pseudonym for Napoleon Sarony. The lithographer employs the distinctive broad crayon work found in signed Sarony work." Reilly. Reilly 1840-43. Weitenkampf 67. OCLC 299944907 2- AAS Lib. Congress as of October 2019. Printed & Published by H.R. Robinson 52 Courtland St. Y.N. [sic] & Penns Avenue Washington D.C. unknown
Bookseller reference : 36330
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