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1852Best.-Nr. 26314Boston: Beals Greene & Co. 1852. Disbound 24pp printed in double columns. Light wear Very Good. The 1852 presidential campaign pitting the Democrat Pierce against the Whig Scott featured an unseemly competition for the votes of Irish Catholic immigrants. Whigs who were at a disadvantage in this contest charged Pierce with being an anti-Catholic bigot. "The object of the Scott politicians in making the charge of intolerance at this time against General Pierce is to obtain the Catholic vote. It is an appeal to a SECT IN RELIGION to get its members to vote a certain way in POLITICS." This pamphlet rebuts the charge demonstrating that Pierce supported extending equal rights to Catholics in New Hampshire via constitutional amendment. Not in Sabin Miles Eberstadt Decker. OCLC lists a number of institutional copies. Beals, Greene & Co. unknown books
1852Best.-Nr. 25283New 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 books
1832Best.-Nr. 19544Albany: 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. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 93603. AI 13888 1. Not in Eberstadt or Decker. Printed by Packard and Van Benthuysen unknown books
1848Best.-Nr. 9627np 1848. 16pp disbound and stitched minor scattered spotting. Very Good. NUC attributes authorship to Adams identified here only as "a Whig of the Free States." He is appalled at his Party's impending nomination of Zachary Taylor for the presidency. Taylor a Louisiana slaveholder had never voted or participated in civil affairs. His military career most recently in the Mexican War which northern Whigs had generally opposed as an unconstitutional land-grab for slavery was his only public activity. "He is a Military Chieftain-- and he is a Slave owner and in favor of the Extension of Slavery over new territories." Webster deserves the nomination: "Let there be no wavering none of the contemptible expediency doctrine which leads men to declare in one breath that Mr. Webster is their first choice and to say the next moment that they are ready to vote for General Taylor." FIRST EDITION. Sabin 55816. 3 NUC 0062491. Not in Miles LCP Eberstadt Decker Dumond. unknown books
1856Best.-Nr. 19546Washington 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 books
1856Best.-Nr. 14821np 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 books
1876Best.-Nr. 20530Cincinnati 1876. 16pp caption title as issued. Disbound lightly tanned Good or Very Good. A Democratic rally in this Republican State whose Favorite Son Rutherford B. Hayes would defeat Tilden in a very tight presidential election unmatched until the year 2000. Democrats ran on racism Republican corruption profligate public expenditures opposition to high tariffs and intrusive Radical Reconstruction and support for Jeffersonian limited government. Scarce OCLC locating copies only at the Western Reserve and Ohio Historical Societies. FIRST EDITION. OCLC 37877427 2. unknown books
1848Best.-Nr. 6729Washington: Towers 1848. 8pp disbound else Very Good with caption title as issued. 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 Territorial inhabitants rather than Congress to determine whether slavery should exist there-- was articulated. Sabin 11350. Streeter MI 612. Towers unknown books
1840Best.-Nr. 14460Washington: Gideon 1840. Caption title as issued disbound. 16pp. Scattered foxing pinhole knocks out one letter. Good. A very scarce Whig campaign document producing official messages and correspondence exposing the militaristic tendencies of the incumbent Martin Van Buren. Joel Poinsett was Secretary of War at the time. Another issue is entitled 'Plan of the Standing Army.' Not in AI Sabin Eberstadt Decker. 624 NUC 0263455 1. Gideon unknown books
1872Best.-Nr. 15684np 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 books
1864Best.-Nr. 11025Washington: Towers for the Union Congressional Committee 1864. 7 1pp. Loosened caption title as issued. Light wear and soil Good. An appeal for the votes of the troops "the working hands by which the nation's honor and manhood have been vindicated" in the upcoming presidential election. "Through four years of dread war in bright and dark days you have carried the Union in your hearts and on your bayonets." Opposing the Democrat-Copperhead platform as treasonous this pamphlet exhorts "If ever there was a time when Union bayonets were called on to think it is now. The crisis of the war when our armies have the rebellion in their grasp and are preparing to deal its death-blow finds the country precipitated into the turmoil of a Presidential election." FIRST EDITION. Sabin 24237. Towers for the Union Congressional Committee unknown books
1852Best.-Nr. 17434np 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 books
1868Best.-Nr. 15098Washington: Union Republican Congressional Committee 1868. 8pp Disbound 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 books
1856Best.-Nr. 18521Indianapolis 1856. 16pp disbound. Scattered foxing. Good. A Democratic presidential campaign pamphlet. It charges that during the brief time that Fremont "the Black Republican candidate for the Presidency" was a U.S. Senator his votes-- opposing the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia-- showed him "to be a most ultra pro-slavery man." The hypocritical Republicans "use the language of patriotism and of love for the Union.whilst their votes their acts and their organization lead only to a dissolution and all the evils that must follow." The Know-Nothings are just as bad: they "have waged a cruel and relentless war upon foreigners and members of the Roman Catholic church. These classes have been proscribed." Moreover "Abolitionism and Know-nothingism were allies." FIRST EDITION. LCP 3837. 112 Eberstadt 150d. Not in Sabin Decker Miles. unknown books
1848Best.-Nr. 7855Washington 1848. 8pp caption title as issued. Disbound else Very Good. A rare 1848 Democratic campaign pamphlet defending President Polk's vetoes. The veto power says his supporter Andrew Johnson "was established to enable the people to resist and repel encroachments on their rights." Since the country's founding Presidents have exercised the veto only 25 times. The document also includes Virginia Congressman Bayly's 1848 speech concurring with Johnson; and "Judge Story's Opinion on the Veto" taken from his Commentaries. Not in Sabin Eberstadt. OCLC 24637860 1- Lancaster Hist. Soc. 976424705 1- U VA as of January 2021. unknown books
1848Best.-Nr. 19816Washington: Published Under Authority of the National and Jackson Democratic Association Committee 1848. 16pp untrimmed and folded blank top edge chipped. Toned. Good or so. Stewart a Whig had charged that Cass the Democrats' 1848 presidential nominee had picked the taxpayers' pockets while Governor of the Michigan Territory and Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Stewart issued a pamphlet that included Cass's expense accounts and other documents to back up his charges. Defending Cass this pamphlet accuses the Whigs and Stewart of "making up a gross statement against General Cass and suppressing the truth in regard to the accounts of General Taylor." Taylor say the Democrats is guilty of even greater malfeasance than that which has been falsely charged against Cass. Sabin 91633n. 111 Eberstadt 113. Published Under Authority of the National and Jackson Democratic Association Committee unknown books
1848Best.-Nr. 19495np 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 books
1880Best.-Nr. 197421880. 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 books
1840Best.-Nr. 15487Albany N.Y. 1840. pp 89-96 large folded folio sheet printed in triple columns. Caption title as issued scattered light foxing Very Good. An Extra denominated No. 12 from the Rough-Hewer a Democratic Party campaign publication published from February - December The Address supports the Democrats' presidential candidate and New York's favorite son Martin Van Buren against the Whig candidate William Henry Harrison. The Whigs descendants of the aristocratic Federalists are "constantly struggling to create distinctions in society by legislation for the special benefit of individuals and classes thereby throwing into their hands a power and influence strong enough to control the suffrages of the people or set them at defiance." Resolutions and discussion of the issues all presented with great passion ensue. FIRST EDITION. AI 40-5891 5. Lomazow 392. Not in Mott. unknown books
1872Best.-Nr. 15895np 1872. 8pp. Folded with caption title as issued. Light wear trimmed closely at the top without loss of text but affecting several page numbers. Good. Demonstating the abuses heaped upon our great presidents beginning with George Washington and ending with Grant. Charles Sumner whose criticisms of corrupt practices in the first Grant Administration were particularly sharp is excoriated. unknown books
1848Best.-Nr. 20489Washington 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 books
1844Best.-Nr. 11033New-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 books
1848Best.-Nr. 17436Boston: Eastburn's Press 1848. Stitched 11pp. Scattered foxing blank top margin of title page cut down with no text affected upper blank forecorner chewed. Good. Massachusetts Whigs put forth a valiant but unsuccessful effort in behalf of Daniel Webster's candidacy for the Whig presidential nomination in He is "A man who respecting all the 'arrangements and compromises of the Constitution' and the rights of all under them will yet never suffer them to be extended or increased to the destruction of our political equality." FIRST EDITION. 4 NUC 0070701 2. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker Miles. Eastburn's Press unknown books
1872Best.-Nr. 20482Washington: 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 books
1880Best.-Nr. 12838np 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 books
