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William Henry Harrison - ELECTION MEMORABILIAABAA

Election Bandanna/Kerchief

1840ref. 211221840. As issued. Very good; clean; occasional small spot; old folds. Printed red on white cotton; meas. appx. 27 x 26 inches. An election bandanna for William Henry Harrison's presidential campaign in 1840. As such it is among the first to be issued for any campaign in the nation. From the early 1800s through the 1870s kerchiefs laden with visual symbols glorified presidential aspirants as military heroes and venerable statesmen. Long-standing custom discouraged candidates from actively campaigning for public office a practice viewed as undignified and "unduly ambitious". As a result kerchiefs and other propaganda devices played a key role in image advertising. William Henry Harrisons 1840 bid for the presidency during a time of an expanding mass electorate ushered in a new era of campaigning marked by the appropriation of symbols and slogans - in Harrisons case the log cabin hard cider barrel and slogan Tippecanoe and Tyler Too - and the vigorous production of campaign propaganda. The American campaign kerchief officially arrived with the presidential bid of William Henry Harrison in 1840 after Democratic opponents labeled the 67-year-old Harrison an old has been content to retire to his log cabin and drink hard cider. Whigs seized upon the intended insult and turned log cabins and hard cider barrels into positive emblems of the campaign championing Harrison as a man of the people. A flood of political kerchiefs featured the ubiquitous log cabin and barrels. Ironically the man perennially portrayed as a simple frontiersman was actually an aristocratic Virginian who lived in a stately residence. Like George Washington and Andrew Jackson before him William Henry Harrison was promoted as a military hero in this equestrian portrait. Known as The Hero of Tippecanoe for his victory over the Shawnees at Tippecanoe Indiana in 1811 Harrison also distinguished himself during the War of 1812. The figure is surrounded by scenes depicting his log cabin home the Battle of Tippecanoe Battle of Thames the farmer US Capitol and the Treaty. Threads of History #131; Campaigns on Cotton New York Historical Society. unknown books

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[McClellan, George B]: [Election of 1864]:ABAA

THE CHICAGO PLATFORM AND CANDIDATE caption title.

1864ref. 63169New York: Published by Currier & Ives 1864. A Political Cartoon Exposing McClellan's Hypocrisy A rare Currier and Ives print from the presidential election of 1864 satirizing the Democratic presidential candidate and former general George B. McClellan as an equivocating hypocrite. As Neely and Holzer explain the presidential campaign of 1864 inspired a flurry of "separate-sheet display cartoons: thought-provoking witty but often cruel lampoons that struck hard at the most divisive political and personal issues of 1864. In these cartoons one can see illustrated vividly the raw toughness of the campaign as well as the skill of the artists who covered it." These prints they note could be "vicious: personal mean-spirited cruel race-baiting and divisive" and in this context McClellan "the military man now running on a peace platform made for one obvious target." The image here shows a two-faced McClellan at center standing atop rickety planks - a literal representation of the Democratic party's Chicago peace platform - and holding a copy of his letter of acceptance. The planks are supported precariously at each corner on the shoulders of four figures: Confederate president Jefferson Davis; New York congressman and prominent Copperhead Fernando Wood; another Copperhead and the author of the Chicago platform Clement Vallandigham; and "Jeffs friend" the devil. Standing on opposite sides of the image are representatives of each of the constituencies to whom the two-faced McClellan is pandering: a uniformed "Union Soldier" and a "Peace Democrat" caricatured here as a club-wielding simian Irishman. From the face addressing the Peace Democrat McClellan says "You see my friend I accept the nomination and of course stand on the platform" to which the Peace Democrat replies "All right General! if yere in favor of resistin the draft killing the Nagurs and pace wid the Southerners I'll knock any man on the head that'll vote aginye." From his other face addressing the Union soldier McClellan contradicts himself saying "If you don't like the Platform I refer you to my letter of acceptance" a copy of which McClellan holds in his and which reads "War! - preservation Union - could not look my gallant Comrades in the - face; ---" The soldier says "Its no use General! you can't stand on that platform and come that blarney over me; I smell brimstone!" Below McClellan the devil speaking to Jefferson Davis gives expression to the futility of the lost cause: "Well Jeff it's no use trying to hold up this rickety old platform I guess I'll leave you to your fate!" Davis says in reply "I'm in a pretty fix! Weldon road gone!! Atlanta taken!!! Mobile Forts surrendered!!!! Early licked!!!!! and now when my last hope is in keeping up this platform and getting Mac elected you who led me into the scrape threaten to leave me!!!!!" Meanwhile an exasperated Vallandingham exclaims "Confound that letter! I've a good mind to bolt and let the whole concern go to a smash!" Fernando tries to reassure his fellow Copperhead: "Hold on Val. don't you see it's only his little game to ring in the war men if he is elected he is bound to carry out our policy and nothing else!" The image mocks the seeming hypocrisy of McClellan a military man running on his war record who has just accepted the nomination of a party whose platform calls for an end to the war even as the candidate himself expresses his support for the war in his acceptance letter. Reilly notes that the cartoon was probably drawn by the prolific artist Louis Maurer. This print is scarce. The Currier & Ives catalogue raisonné locates only the copies at the Chicago Historical Society and the Library of Congress. OCLC locates another two copies at the time of cataloguing one at the Ohio History Center and another at the Clements Library. We find additional copies at the American Antiquarian Society the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A rare and stinging political cartoon from the bitter war-time election of 1864. Tanned with some scattered foxing. Small pinholes to top center and to top and bottom of left margin. Two small pieces of linen tape to top edge of verso; some soiling to verso and some discoloration from old tape since removed showing through to recto. Very good. REILLY AMERICAN POLITICAL PRINTS 1864-20. WEITENKAMPF p.143. PETERS CURRIER & IVES 1621. GALE CURRIER & IVES: A CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ 1126. NEELY & HOLZER UNION IMAGE pp.132 134 137 144-45. Bryan F. Le Beau Currier & Ives: America Imagined Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press 2001 pp.280-81. OCLC 818725064 1292629697. unknown books

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[Fremont, John C]: [Election of 1856]:ABAA

COL. FREMONT'S LAST GRAND EXPLORING EXPEDITION IN 1856 caption title.

1856ref. 63167New York: Nathaniel Currier 1856. Fremont as an Overland Explorer for the Presidency A cutting satirical cartoon aimed at the great western explorer John C. Fremont and his main supporters in his 1856 bid for the White House. Fremont was the Republican nominee for the presidency and ran on an anti-slavery platform. He was backed by New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley and radical abolitionist minister Henry Ward Beecher. In the image Fremont rides a horse - called the "abolition nag" - that has the face of Greeley. Fremont says "This is pretty hard riding - but if he only carries me to the White house in safety I will forgive my friends for putting me astride of such a crazy Old Hack." The horse is led toward the Salt River a metaphor for political disaster by leading Republican William Seward who proclaims that "Which ever road I travel always brings me to this confounded river I thought we had a sure thing this time on the Bleeding Kansas dodge." Mountains in the background are identified as Kansas and Nebraska. The Greeley-headed horse addresses Seward: "Seward it seems to me we are going the same Road we did in 'fifty two' but as long as you lead I'll follow if I 'go it blind.'" Henry Ward Beecher who was known to have furnished antislavery emigrants with firearms to participate in the Kansas struggles follows behind Fremont's horse his arms laden with rifles. A mountain man - evoking Fremont's exploring past - cautions the Pathfinder: "Ah! Colonel - you've got into a bad crowd - you'll find that dead Horse on the prairie is better for the Constitution than Abolition Soup or Wooly head stew in the White house." The embossed seal to the bottom left corner is that of F.A. Caspari of Baltimore "Dealer in Books & Stationery." This print is scarce. The Currier & Ives catalogue raisonné locates only the copies at the Chicago Historical Society and the Library of Congress. OCLC adds only two copies one at the American Antiquarian Society and another at the University of Rochester. A fine satirical print of John Fremont and his abolitionist supporters in the 1856 presidential election. Light even tanning lightly foxed. Old vertical fold running the length of right edge. Closed tears with repairs to the right and left edges plus small closed tear to top right edge along fold. Contemporary dealer's embossed seal to bottom left corner. Three small pieces of linen tape to top of the verso some discoloration from old tape since removed on verso. Very good. REILLY AMERICAN POLITICAL PRINTS 1856-20. WEITENKAMPF p.117. PETERS CURRIER & IVES 1635a. GALE CURRIER & IVES: A CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ 1309. OCLC 192110863. OCLC 1136567691. unknown books

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[Election of 1844]: [Hill, Isaac]:ABAA

N.H. PATRIOT---EXTRA.NEW YORK SPEAKS!!! AND VIRGINIA RESPONDS.THE EMPIRE STATE GIVES HER ELECTORAL VOTE FOR POLK AND DALLAS caption title and headlines.

1844ref. 66208Concord: Hill & Moore November 9 1844. New Hampshire Democrats Celebrate Polk's Victory An ebullient "Extra" issue of the staunchly Democratic New Hampshire Patriot & Daily Gazette celebrating the not-quite-confirmed victory of James K. Polk in the 1844 presidential election. Published by lifelong Democratic partisan and former New Hampshire governor Isaac Hill the New Hampshire Patriot was a long-running political newspaper in that stronghold of Northern Democracy and this illustrated extra issue printed on Saturday November 9 displays the extent to which the editors and indeed the people of Concord rejoiced at the news. The main headline "New York Speaks!!!" refers to the pivotal flip of New York state from Whig to Democrat a fact which when combined with the expected news of a comfortable victory in Virginia more or less clinched the victory for Polk despite the results being out on several other states. While the optimistic figures in this article report a whopping majority for Polk in reality the Democrats won New York by a narrow margin of just one percent. A short article following this news offhandedly reports on a fatal local celebration noting that "A most shocking casualty occurred in Concord last evening while the democrats were celebrating the triumph of Polk and Dallas in New York by the firing of cannon. Mr. John L. Haynes of this town one of the officers of the Columbian Artillery had his left arm almost entirely blown off his right arm dreadfully shattered and his face shockingly burned in the act of ramming down a cartridge. The discharge took place in consequence of the vent not being stopped in the excitement and hurry of the firing." At the top of the central column a small cartoon depicts a man with an oversized steak knife and glass of wine declaring "That roast beef fetch it on!-and them 'two dollars a day!'" referencing William Henry Harrison's 1840 campaign slogan of "Harrison two dollars a day and roast beef." The remainder of the text reports the election results by county in New Hampshire which voted for Polk by a margin of nearly nineteen percent including votes for the ballot issues "On amending Constitution" and "On abolishing capital punishment." An entertaining and ephemeral piece printed at the culmination of a pivotal election. Old folds. Light tanning a few small chips and tears at edges. Very good. BRIGHAM p.444. unknown books

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[Election of 1864]:ABAA

THE REAL CHICAGO PLATFORM AS EXPOUNDED BY THE DEMOCRATIC ORATORS AT CHICAGO caption title.

1864ref. 65929New York: National Union Executive Committee 1864. Scarce Anti-Copperhead Broadside A scarce anti-Copperhead broadside printed during the election of 1864 purporting to reveal "the real Chicago Platform" and providing excerpts from speeches given at the Democratic National Convention. The convention met in Chicago on August 29 1864 where the Copperheads quickly established dominance over the outnumbered War Democrats and established peace with the South at any cost as the core of their platform. McClellan accepted the nomination alongside staunch Copperhead George Pendleton despite his open opposition to the peace platform; this seeming hypocrisy was mercilessly lampooned by the opposition contributing to the abject failure of the joint War and Peace ticket. The present broadside presents statements made at the convention by "a number of distinguished Democratic orators" which they deem "sufficient to show the temper and purpose of all." Some choice excerpts include: "I love our Southern friends; they are a noble a brave and a chivalrous people cheers" Representative James S. Rollins of Missouri; "Show me a War Democrat to-day and I will show you a shoddy Abolitionist in disguise.He is a Judas and should be cast out as an enemy to humanity and to God.Soon the net is to be drawn that will gather in its half million more to feed the insatiable thirst for blood of the Negro God" J.A. McMaster arrested for libel at the start of the war; "If Democrats catch Lincoln's bloody satrap spies among them they must cut their damned throats that's all. Applause" Captain William J. Kountz known troublemaker and personal antagonist of General Grant dishonorably discharged in 1863; and "We are one and all for peace and with this magic word upon our banner we shall sweep over the course and roll into oblivion the black negro-loving negro-hugging worshippers of old Abe Lincoln" Isaiah Rynders Tammany Hall tough and former Know-Nothing. The broadside was clearly printed with intention of wide dispersal among potential Lincoln supporters with a noted price of "$1 per 100." The American Antiquarian Society reasonably suggests that this broadside was printed by the National Union Executive Committee of New York based on typographically similar items in their collection. A representative document from one of the nation's most fraught elections. Old folds. Light tanning and staining. Small holes at two cross-folds short closed tear to upper margin and left edge. About very good. SABIN 68234. unknown books

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[Currier & Ives]: [Election of 1864]:ABAA

THE POLITICAL "SIAMESE TWINS" THE OFFSPRING OF CHICAGO MISCEGENATION caption title.

1864ref. 63056New York: Currier & Ives 1864. Unlikely Running Mates Conjoined by "Party Ties" A rare Currier and Ives political print from the 1864 presidential election likening the unusual marriage of McClellan and his running mate Copperhead leader George Pendleton to the famous "Siamese twins" Chang and Eng Bunker. Chang and Eng first came to the United States in 1829 where their great popularity as a touring act gave birth to the phrase "Siamese twins" as a term for conjoined twins. After years of touring in Europe and America the pair settled down in North Carolina for over a decade before returning to the stage in the 1860s. Their renewed popularity and enduring cultural relevance are both evidenced by this election-year cartoon. "In the center McClellan left is attached to the side of his running mate by 'The Party Tie.' McClellan says apologetically to the two Union soldiers at his left 'It was not I that did it fellow Soldiers!! but with this unfortunate attachment I was politically born at Chicago!' The Democratic national convention took place in Chicago on August 29 1864. The soldier with his arm in a sling responds angrily 'Good bye little Mac' if thats your company! Uncle Abe gets my vote.' The soldier at far left says 'I would vote for you General if you were not tied to a "peace" Copperhead who says that Treason and Rebellion ought to triumph!!' Pendleton addresses the two 'Copperheads' at his right: Clement Laird Vallandigham author of the Democrats' peace plank and Horatio Seymour governor of New York and chairman of the Democratic national convention. Pendleton says 'I dont care how many letters Mac writes if it brings him votes; for every vote for him count one for me!!' Vallandigham concurs 'Yes Pen that's the only reason that I support the ticket; if you are elected both Jeff…and I will be triumphant!" Seymour far right replies 'With Pendleton as Vice; Val.secretary of State; Wood i.e. Fernando Wood an organizer of the Peace Democrats in the treasury and I Govr. of New-York we will have peace at any price the rebels "our friends" in this copy choose to ask for it'" – Reilly. Interestingly the copy described by Reilly differs slightly from the other recorded copies. In the Library of Congress copy Seymour refers to "the rebels" directly; in our copy and most others he instead refers to them as "our friends" in quotation marks alluding to his famous or infamous "My Friends" speech delivered during the New York draft riots. OCLC records copies only at the University of Michigan and Peabody Essex Museum though we locate additional copies at the Library of Congress Library Company of Philadelphia Princeton and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A rare and visually striking political cartoon evocative of the fraught 1864 election and contemporary popular culture. Light foxing and soiling. Closed tear in right edge into platemark but not touching illustration. Faint dampstain near center. Very good overall. REILLY 1864-19. PETERS CURRIER & IVES 1671. CURRIER & IVES: CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ 5232. OCLC 191120100. unknown books

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[Election of 1824]: [Jackson, Andrew]:ABAA

OUR COUNTRY.HOME INDUSTRY caption title.

1824ref. 62431N.p. but likely New York. 1824. Rare Illustrated Anti-Jackson Broadside A very rare illustrated anti-Jackson broadside from the hotly-contested election of 1824 addressed to "manufacturers and mechanics." The presidential election of 1824 was a complicated four-candidate affair with frontrunners Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams trailed by Henry Clay and William Crawford each drawing considerable support in certain districts. In fact the race was so close that no candidate won a sufficient majority of the electoral vote and Adams was elected by the House of Representatives under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment despite carrying four fewer states than Jackson and the glow of the "Era of Good Feeling" was dimmed once and for all. Addressed to "Manufacturers and Mechanics" this broadside focuses primarily on Jackson's economic policies specifically his anti-tariff stance. "If the Jackson Party prevail" the text proclaims "the next Congress will be opposed to the tariff to mechanics manufacturers and domestic industry.The consequence will be that the sound of the shuttle will no longer be heard. Our stores will be filled with British and Scotch ginghams shirtings checks and bed-ticks; and not a place will be found for a yard of American cloth.Don't suffer yourselves to be deceived by stories that General Jackson is your friend.What will his battle of New Orleans avail you if you are thrown out of employment and made beggars" Even Jackson's campaign materials they claim are made from British exports. The text seems targeted at a New York and New England audience pointing out South Carolina and "the southern section of the country" as the fervent opponents of domestic industry and warning readers not to be "the dupes of such men as William Coleman" owner of The New York Evening Post. Throughout the broadside maintains a strong anti-British stance and suggests that Jackson and his supporters including Coleman are better friends of Great Britain than America: "Coleman is the man who exulted when a British fleet lay off the Hook. The Evening Post was received wet from his office on board their ships every day. Nothing but respect for the laws prevented our incensed countrymen from demolishing the press and types that printed the diabolical treason." While the text espouses Henry Clay as the man of the hour "the truest ablest and best friend you ever had" the woodcut illustration places a ship named the "John Quincy Adams of Washington" front and center. It flies banners reading "Free Trade & Sailors Rights" and "No Colonial Subjection" and is flanked on either side by vignettes subtitled "National industry is National Wealth" and "Agriculture is the Source of Prosperity." Ironically the largest controversy in Jackson's presidency a decade later would be over his lack of action against tariffs when his failure to repeal Adams' 1828 "Tariff of Abominations" resulted in the Nullification Crisis and threats of civil war. We locate only one other copy of this broadside at the Library of Congress. A rare and interesting illustrated political broadside from a highly contentious election. Old folds minor splitting at right edge of central horizontal fold. Lightly tanned. Very good. REILLY AMERICAN POLITICAL PRINTS 1824-3. OCLC 299947334. hardcover books

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[Tennessee]: [Confederacy]: [Election Ticket]:ABAA

FOR GOVERNOR. HON. ROBERT L. CARUTHERS caption title.

1863ref. 53688Winchester 1863. Running for State Office in Confederate Tennessee An exceedingly rare Confederate Tennessee state election ticket from 1863 nominating Robert L. Caruthers for governor and eleven others as state senators. In 1863 state elections were due in Tennessee. The state was fractured by war and secession and both Unionists and Confederates expressed the desire to hold elections for state government. Confederate supporters held a convention in Winchester and nominated a governor the State Legislature and members for the Confederate Congress. It was a bit of a fool's errand. Isham G. Harris who still considered himself the governor of Tennessee issued a proclamation calling for the election to be held on the first Thursday in August. Just who voted and how many or how few will probably never be known. According to historians the State Archives in Nashville are scant and inconclusive; returns from only thirty-two counties are found some of which reported the vote of only one civil district. Not a single report was from West Tennessee counties and only eight Middle Tennessee counties made returns. Robert L. Caruthers was elected governor on the face of returns but he was never inaugurated and thus never served a day as governor of Tennessee. No Confederate State Legislature ever convened either. The Confederate Congressmen were the only lucky ones. Those who were elected in 1863 took their seats in Richmond however briefly. George Webb notes this copy in his NOT IN ALLEN bibliography in 2013. Not in Parrish & Willingham. The only other copy or shall we say copies resides at the Library of Virginia in an uncut sheet of six tickets. This will likely be the only copy ever available in the marketplace. Toned minor soiling and wrinkling. Very good. WEBB NOT IN ALLEN 199 this copy. unknown books

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[Jackson, Andrew]: [Election of 1828]:ABAA

THE CASE OF JOHN WOODS caption title.

1828ref. 56513N.p. 1828. A Very Rare Broadsheet Attack on Andrew Jackson in 1828 A rare broadside recounting Andrew Jackson's infamous execution of Private John Woods published in 1828 by Jackson's opponents during the 1828 election. There was considerable mud-slinging between the Jackson and Adams camps during that campaign which eventually saw the defeat of incumbent John Quincy Adams and the election of Andrew Jackson. This dense broadside recounts the events of March 1814 at Fort Strother during the Creek Campaign when Jackson charged John Woods an eighteen-year-old militiaman with disobedience disrespect and mutiny. According to the text the trial itself only occurred because Jackson's soldiers would not shoot Woods at the moment of the offense despite Jackson's cries to "Shoot the damned rascal!.blow ten balls through the damned rascal!" The court martial followed soon after; Woods was found guilty and sentenced to die. Some testimonies here state that Jackson offered to spare Woods' life if he would enlist in the regular army but Woods refused; others disagree. He was executed thirty-six hours later. Then follows the sworn testimony of several witnesses: Thomas Couch Robert Ferguson Samuel Hanna George A. Brock Isaac Roberts James Harris William Stewart Joseph Alexander Isaac Anderson Abm. Whitney and John Williams all fellow soldiers of Woods who witnessed or had personal knowledge of the facts in the case. Their accounts of Woods' supposed mutiny substantially downplay the severity of Woods' disobedience suggesting that it was likely a misunderstanding; they also emphasize the draconian nature of the punishment and make several mentions of Woods' aging and infirm parents. Williams' account closes: "It is not true that Woods on the ground of Execution with oaths and defiance refused to promise obedience. On the contrary he wept loud and bitterly." All of the testimonies are datelined in Tennessee in the first few months of 1828. The nature of the printing lends itself to the possibility of a Tennessee press. Though not as famous as the "Coffin Handbills" that appeared at the same time listing Woods' execution among many other crimes by Jackson this was definitely addressed to the same audiences. John Spencer Bassett in his Life of Andrew Jackson notes that the "execution of mutinous militiamen in the campaigns of 1813 and 1814 was recalled to show Jackson's ferocious temper; and when a Philadelphia editor published a hand-bill showing a coffin with the victims standing by its side the idea was caught up eagerly and repeated in all parts of the country." Not in Wise & Cronin and we could find no listing for this broadside in OCLC or in American Imprints. It has only appeared at auction twice and then not since 1925 when Anderson Galleries offered a copy as part of the sale of the Henry De Puy collection which was strong in Andrew Jackson material. The only copy in the trade seems to be one offered by the Eberstadts in 1939. Broadsheet 19 x 9 inches text printed in two columns on both sides. Old folds some chips to edges minor loss to upper left corner and closed tear to bottom edge no text affected. Two small holes affecting just one word a few areas of soiling light foxing even tanning. Manuscript annotations to verso. About very good. unknown books

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