Élection

MR. WALLACE FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE TO INQUIRE INTO ALLEGED FRAUDS IN THE LATE ELECTIONS SUBMITTED THE FOLLOWING REPORT.

1880réf. 1406246th Cong. 2d Sess.: SR497. 1880. 28 469pp. Disbound. Very Good. The Democrat Wallace and his committee seek to demonstrate that Massachusetts Republicans "dismissed or threatened with dismissal from employment or deprivation of any right or privilege" anyone who didn't vote Republican in the fall elections. SR497. unknown books

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Election of 1876ABAA

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

1876réf. 14342np 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 books

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Election of 1844ABAA

TARIFF DOCTRINE

1844réf. 15877Washington: 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 books

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Election of 1848ABAA

TAYLOR PLATFORM. WHIG COMMITTEE ROOM COLUMBUS SEPT. 25 1848

1848réf. 15121Columbus 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 1035828858 1- AAS as of January 2021. Apparently the Ohio Historical Society and Western Reserve also own a copy. unknown books

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Election of 1876ABAA

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

1876réf. 15830New York 1876. Caption title as issued. Printed in double columns. 4pp. Disbound a bit roughly else Very Good. unknown books

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Election of 1880ABAA

REPUDIATION

1880réf. 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

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Election of 1856ABAA

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

1856réf. 10914Baltimore 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 books

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Election of 1848ABAA

ADDRESS OF THE WHIGS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS TO THE WHIGS OF THE UNION

1848réf. 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

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Election of 1888ABAA

The Temple of Justice a Sink of Injustice.

1888réf. 37352n.p.: n.p. 1888. First edition. Self wrappers. A very good copy. 4 pp. 8vo. First section title reads "Exorbitant Charge of Special Counsel in Bell Telephone Case - $75 per day - $100 while Sleeping en Route to Cincinnati." Goes on to accuse the Department of Justice of rights violations and cronyism. "The Citizen and his rights trampled upon in every direction through processes of law." Extensively quotes Samuel Jackson Randall 1828-1890 Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania whose power was waning at the time. OCLC locates only two copies: Library of Michigan and the Wisconsin Historical Society. n.p. unknown books

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Philadelphia PA.. Board of Election Commissioners.ABAA

The power of the constitutional convention containing the pleadings briefs arguments of counsel and opinion of the judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in the cases of Wells and others vs. the election commissioners.

1873réf. 39109Philadelphia: King & Baird 1873. 8vo 8.75". 206 pp. Wrangling over a special election and the power of the conitituional convention. "The arguments are published from the stenographic report of R.A. West. Disbound retains front wrapper. King & Baird unknown books

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Jackson Andrew: Election of 1828ABAA

THE CASE OF JOHN WOODS caption title

1828réf. WRCAM56513N.p. 1828. 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. 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. unknown books

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Jackson Andrew: Election of 1828ABAA

SOME ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE BLOODY DEEDS OF GEN. JACKSON caption title

1828réf. WRCAM56438N.p. 1828. Broadside 20 3/4 x 14 inches. Old folds small closed tears along most folds some separation at center fold. Residue and mild staining from previous tape repairs one older tape repair still in place. Minor edge wear and a few small chips even tanning. About very good. One version of the infamous "Coffin Broadsides" attacking Andrew Jackson in the presidential campaign of 1828. 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. Across the top of the present broadside are six woodcut coffins bearing the names of six militiamen shot for mutiny on Jackson's orders during the War of 1812; an account of their wrongful execution follows. Below that there are more accounts of Jackson's evil and murderous deeds including twelve regular soldiers shot for desertion despite their "not guilty" pleas complete with twelve more coffin woodcuts; Jackson assaulting another man Samuel Jackson in the streets of Nashville and running him through with a sword while Samuel bent over to pick up a rock for defense with a woodcut of a demonic Jackson committing the murderous act; the tale of another soldier unfairly executed another woodcut coffin; and a brief account of some Indian prisoners executed on Jackson's orders four more coffins. The bottom portion includes a testimonial by Thomas Hart Benton who himself had fought a duel with Jackson. The "Coffin Handbill" was printed and reprinted in several sizes and formats. Sabin quotes John Spencer Bassett in his LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON who 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." SABIN 86569. OCLC 18042341 45888498. unknown books

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Tennessee: Confederacy: Election TicketABAA

FOR GOVERNOR. HON. ROBERT L. CARUTHERS caption title

1863réf. WRCAM53688Winchester 1863. Broadside 5 x 3 3/4 inches. Toned minor soiling and wrinkling. Very good. 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. WEBB NOT IN ALLEN 199 this copy. unknown books

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Election of 1828ABAA

SUPPLEMENT TO THE BOSTON STATESMAN. HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE NATIONAL OR FEDERAL REPUBLICAN PARTY

1828réf. WRCAM53763Boston 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 books

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Election of 1856ABAA

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

1856réf. WRCAM53064Suffield 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 books

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New Hampshire: Election of 1788ABAA

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY- EIGHT. AN ACT FOR CARRYING INTO EFFECT AN ORDINANCE OF CONGRESS OF THE THIRTEENTH OF SEPTEMBER LAST RELATIVE TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES caption title

1788réf. WRCAM52937Portsmouth N.H. 1788. Broadsheet approximately 14 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches. Previously folded with one small hole at lower central fold line. Slight curling at edges very light tanning and foxing. Very good. A rare broadsheet calling for New Hampshire representatives to be appointed to the Electoral College for the first presidential election under the Constitution in 1788. On Sept. 13 1788 Congress passed a resolution that electors should be appointed and in response this November 12 act of the New Hampshire legislature declared December 15 as the date to elect the state's representatives to both houses of Congress and to determine its electors for the Electoral College. New Hampshire was the first of the ten states that had ratified the Constitution at this point to hold its federal elections. We locate only two other copies at the American Antiquarian Society and Dartmouth. BRISTOL B6753. WHITTEMORE NEW HAMPSHIRE 458. unknown books

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Election of 1860ABAA

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

1860réf. WRCAM45168Cleveland: Nevins' Print Plain Dealer Job Office 1860. 188pp. Dbd. Ink pen trial on titlepage. Light wear in fore-edge of titlepage and upper margin of final text leaf. Two text leaves printed on slightly folded paper resulting in obscuration of some text. Good. The official record of a crucially important moment in American politics the 1860 Democratic Conventions at which Stephen A. Douglas won the nomination and faced Republican nominee Abraham Lincoln in the general election. The first convention was held in Charleston in late April and early May and was a rancorous affair. Douglas led the field of nine total candidates at Charleston over the opposition of militant Southern Democrats so-called "Fire Eaters". Despite the fact that fifty-seven separate ballots were held Douglas could not secure the necessary two-thirds majority of delegates. The delegates therefore adjourned and reconvened in Baltimore in June where the committee voted to exclude certain delegates from Louisiana and Alabama who had been disruptive in Charleston. Douglas finally secured the nomination on the second ballot in Baltimore and went on to lose the general election to Lincoln. The present text prints all the proceedings of the Charleston and Baltimore conventions offering a detailed picture of American politics at their most fractious. Nevins' Print, Plain Dealer Job Office unknown books

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Election of 1868ABAA

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

1868réf. WRCAM48472Brooklyn: D.S. Holmes 1868. Broadside 13 x 10 inches. Some small tears chipping and loss at top and right edges. Minor foxing. Very good. Broadside printed for the U.S. Presidential Campaign of 1868 which pitted former New York governor Horatio Seymour against Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. This broadside points out Seymour's Copperhead tendencies and statements made by him in 1864 linking him to similar sentiments made by the notorious traitor Benedict Arnold. Seymour's Copperhead utterances during the war haunted his campaign and he lost decisively to Grant. The text printed here strives to demonstrate: ".the points made by Horatio Seymour against the Administration in 1864 are identical point by point with those made by Benedict Arnold against Washington and the Continental Congress in 1780.The Copperhead chiefs of these times who draw so lavishly upon the sophistries and fallacies of 1780 for the furtherance of their factious designs cannot too well understand that the sequel to all this is endless disgrace. They must not expect to fight the Government with weapons of the Tories and of the blue-light Federalists without sharing the same fate." D.S. Holmes unknown books

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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1884ABAA

One sheet 3 1/8 inches by 5 7/8 inches printed on one side titled: Independent Republican Ticket

réf. 205133unbound. very good. Below are printed the names of the Presidential Electors and Republican statewide candidates from Connecticut for the election of 1884. Included are the successfully elected candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor Henry B. Harrison and Lorrin A. Cooke. N.p. 1884. Very good unknown books

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United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Alleged Corruption in the Contested Election Case of Donnelly vs. WashburnABAA

ANONYMOUS LETTER TO HON. WILLIAM M. SPRINGER

1881réf. 1336103Washington: U.S. G.P.O. 1881. Hardcover. Octavo xii 281 pages; VG-; 3/4 bound in black leather red marbled boards gilt lettering to spine; marbled endpapers; moderate rubbing to hinges edges of boards head and tail of spine; 26 folding plates in rear; "March 3 1881.--Laid on the table and ordered to be printed."; name written on second free endpaper; Shelved in case 8 1/2. 1336103. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. [U.S. G.P.O.] hardcover books

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ELECTION OF 1856ABAA

Buchanan Supporters Attack Presidential Candidate Frémont as a “Black Republican” Abolitionist

1856réf. 24482"What a Combination! Seward Greeley Bennet Watson Webb H. Ward Beecher &c. There can be no doubt that this goodly company will speedily be increased by the addition of Fred. Douglass and his black republicans… The only candidate to arrest this tide of demoralization and sectionalism is James Buchanan." This pro-Buchanan election of 1856 pamphlet attacks the first Republican presidential candidate John C. Frémont. Quoting from the speeches and writings of William Lloyd Garrison Horace Greeley Wendell Phillips Salmon P. Chase Henry Ward Beecher William H. Seward Joshua R. Giddings this pamphlet ignores distinctions between abolitionists racial egalitarians more limited opponents just of the expansion of slavery into the territories or those who fought the kidnapping of free African Americans under the Fugitive Slave Law. It paints all with the same broad brush as "Black Republican" extreme abolitionists who were willing to destroy the Union rather than remain in it with slaveholders. ELECTION OF 1856.Printed Document. The Fearful Issue to Be Decided in November Next! Shall the Constitution and the Union Stand or Fall Fremont The Sectional Candidate of the Advocates of Dissolution! Buchanan The Candidate of Those Who Advocate One Country! One Union! One Constitution! and One Destiny! 1856. 24 pp. 5 x 8½ in. Excerpts: Before Title: "Read and hand to your Neighbor." "We propose showing by indubitable testimony that John C. Fremont's leading friends are now the open enemies of the Federal Constitution… the enemies of one-half of the States of the Union; the enemies of the laws of Congress; and the enemies to equality of the States." 3 "In a speech delivered at the New England Anti-Slavery Convention on the 29th of May 1856 by Wm. Lloyd Garrison we have a flood of light shed on the relation between abolitionism and republicanism which divests the subject of all doubt or uncertainty." 4 "William H. Seward was known at the Abolition Convention at Philadelphia… as one of Fremont's warmest supporters. Indeed it is well known that to Chase Seward and Greeley Fremont is mainly indebted for his nomination: they defeated McLean." 7 "Nathaniel P. Banks Abolitionist and Disunionist was elected Speaker of the House by a solid sectional vote: he did not get one vote from the South.No man has exhibited such ferocious hostility to the fugitive slave law to the compromise measures and to the Federal Constitution. His speeches full of treason and of war would fill a volume." 8 and 9 "Every leading committee has an Abolition Disunionist for chairman and a Disunion majority! There some thirty-five committees in the House… Black Republicans monopolized all the great committees. Thus was the work of Disunion formally begun in the Congress of the United States! This monstrous act unprecedented in all our history was the deliberate work of the men who now surround Fremont." 10 "The reverend agitator Ward Beecher is out for Fremont in the last number of his 'Independent.' He is probably next to Garrison and Phillips the most profligate calumniator of the Constitution and the Union." 19 "What a Combination! Seward Greeley Bennet Watson Webb H. Ward Beecher &c. There can be no doubt that this goodly company will speedily be increased by the addition of Fred. Douglass and his black republicans. Every Black Republican in Congress from New York is now the earnest advocate of Fremont." 20 "We aver that there is not an Abolitionist or Disunionist in Pennsylvania who is not an active and open friend of John C. Fremont for the Presidency. David Wilmot and William F. Johnston lead the motley crew both recreants from the Democratic party because the Democratic party respected the Constitution of the United States and would not desert its injunctions… The only candidate to arrest this tide of demoralization and sectionalism is James Buchanan. It is against him and against the Constitution that this combination has been formed." 23 "in the South every vote thrown for Mr. Fillmore is more or less an aid to John C. Fremont to the extent that it may weaken James Buchanan." 24 "We would speak of Mr. Fillmore with entire respect. His speech at Albany was patriotic and forcible but it cannot be denied that out of New York in the North all those who pretend to support him will be called upon in the State elections to unite against the Democratic party with the friends of Fremont otherwise known as the Black Republicans." 24 Historical Background James Buchanan won with 1.8 million votes and 174 electoral votes from 19 states. Fremont received 1.3 million votes winning 11 northern states with 114 electoral votes. American Party "Know Nothing" candidate and former President Millard Fillmore received 873000 votes winning Maryland's 8 electoral votes. Frémont received no votes at all in 10 of the 14 slave states and fewer than 1200 votes total in the other 4 slave states. John C. Frémont 1813-1890 "the Pathfinder" was a legendary explorer who achieved military victories in California during the Mexican War. He entered politics as California's first senator and then became the first Republican presidential candidate in 1856. During the Civil War Lincoln removed Frémont from command in Missouri after he unilaterally declared martial law and threatened to confiscate all property including slaves of Southern sympathizers. Lincoln gave Frémont command of an army in western Virginia where he was defeated by Stonewall Jackson in the Battle of Cross Keys. After Frémont refused to serve under General John Pope Lincoln never again gave him a field command contributing to a personal grudge. In 1864 Frémont abandoned his third-party campaign for the presidency in September after Lincoln agreed to remove U.S. Postmaster General Montgomery Blair from office. Condition Disbound minor pin holes very good. books

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Harmon Judson. Election of 1912ABAA

Archive of Ephemera from Judson Harmon's 1912 Presidential Campaign

1912réf. 371Columbus Oh 1912. About very good. Eight pieces including one 12pp. pamphlet and seven broadsides and bifolia. Old folds light wear. Several items evenly tanned. An informative group of eight extremely scarce or unrecorded pieces promoting the presidential campaign of Ohio Governor and former U.S. Attorney General Judson Harmon in 1912. Harmon eventually lost out to Woodrow Wilson at the Democratic National Convention. The most substantial piece a twelve-page pamphlet concerning Harmon's "presidential timber" located only at the Ohio History Center lavishes praise upon his character and provides a lengthy discussion and defense of his legislative record as Governor. The remaining pieces are not recorded by OCLC and include an endorsement from the late mayor of Cleveland Tom L. Johnson a broadside comparing Harmon's record with Wilson's a four-page endorsement by Charles H. Wirmel leader of the Ohio Steam Engineers Union a broadside printing of endorsements from Progressive leaders in the Democratic Party and two printings of remarks made by Harmon before Democratic Party gatherings. Scarce and ephemeral material on the Democratic contest for the presidential nomination in 1912. unknown books

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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1936ABAA

Artwork for FDR’s 1936 Reelection Campaign proposed by Artist Franz Felix

1936réf. 24942This sheet contains five rough sketches of graphics calling on the workers and voters of America to support Franklin D. Roosevelt's reelection in 1936. They did in record numbers. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1936.Typed Document Signed. Artwork by Franz Felix and Ideas and Copy by Richard Barron "Set of Rough Sketches Containing Some Suggested Promotion Ideas to be Used in the 1936 Democratic Presidential Campaign" July 2 1936. 1 p. 12 x 10½ in. Excerpts: "1. Sounding the call against 'economic royalists' in the spirit of 1776." "2. Appropriating the well-known symbol of violence upraised fist diverting it to peaceful democratic use. To include the farmer phrase the appeal: TOILERS OF AMERICA – UNITE FOR ROOSEVELT." "3. The statue of 'The Thinker' as a symbol of the man today who thinks the toiler with brawn and brain.everyman." "4. Direct appeal to radical labor and leftists in general." "5. Another way of appealing to the working class men and women." "This collaborative effort respectfully submitted for consideration to the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Mr. James A. Farley." Historical Background After unseating incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover in 1932 President Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for reelection in 1936. His Republican opponent was Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. Although the Great Depression had entered its eighth year Roosevelt's New Deal policies were broadly popular. He won the highest share of the popular and electoral vote since the uncontested 1820 election. Roosevelt attracted more than 60 percent of the popular vote and won the electoral votes of 46 states; Landon won the electoral votes of only Maine and Vermont. Democratic Party chairman James Farley had predicted that Roosevelt would lose only Maine and Vermont. After the results of the 1936 election Farley quipped that the nation needed to revise the conventional political wisdom of "As Maine goes so goes the nation" to "As Maine goes so goes Vermont." These ideas for campaign imagery employed or modified common images to support Roosevelt's campaign. One drew on the imagery of artist Archibald Willard's 1875 painting The Spirit of '76 and employed three figures of workers to match the subjects of Willard's image. Another appropriated the upraised fist as a symbol of violence and repurposed it as a symbol of defiant unity against "economic royalists." A third used an image of The Thinkerby French sculptor Auguste Rodin 1840-1917 to appeal to thinking voters. Another image appeals to the fears of radicals that the alternative to Roosevelt is "Reaction." Richard Barron and artist Franz Felix submitted these ideas to Democratic National Committee chairman James A. Farley on July 2 1936 three weeks before the Democratic Party held its convention in Philadelphia. There is no evidence that these images were used in the campaign and it is possible that Farley rejected them. At the end of the campaign the Democratic National Committee had a campaign deficit of approximately $850000. To help offset those expenses the treasurer convinced President Roosevelt to sign 2500 brief Forewords which were bound into The Democratic Book 1936 and sent to donors of $250. Purchases brought in more than $400000 for the party and led Republicans to charge corrupt practices for allowing corporations to contribute to the campaign by buying copies. Franz Felix 1892-1967 was born in Vienna Austria and developed an ability as a child to draw portraits in charcoal. He studied portraiture in Vienna and immigrated to the United States shortly after World War I. He settled in San Francisco where he established himself as a portrait artist and commercial illustrator. In the late 1920s he moved to New York and established a studio in the suburb of Spring Valley where he produced book and magazine illustrations. During World War II he painted a series of murals of wartime activities of Spring Valley residents. James A. Farley 1888-1976 was born in New York into an Irish Catholic family. After his father died he helped his mother with a small business to support the family. After graduating from Packard Business College in New York City where he studied bookkeeping and other business skills Farley got a job with the U.S. Gypsum Corporation. He served as a Democratic town clerk in Stony Point New York and became chairman of the county's Democratic Party in 1918. He organized upstate Democrats and helped elect Alfred E. Smith as Governor that year. He served in the New York State Assembly in 1923 but was defeated at the next election for supporting the repeal of Prohibition. As chair of the state Athletic Commission Farley fought for the civil rights of African American athletes. Farley founded he General Builders Corporation from smaller firms to become New York City's largest building supply company. Farley directed Franklin D. Roosevelt's narrowly successful New York gubernatorial campaign in 1928 and his reelection in 1930. Farley served as chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee from 1930 to 1944 and helped build the national New Deal coalition that elected Roosevelt to the Presidency four times. In 1932 Farley became the chairman of the Democratic National Committee and in 1933 U.S. Postmaster General. He held both positions until 1940. Farley and Roosevelt broke on the two-term tradition of the Presidency in 1940 and he later helped propose the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution limiting a person to two elections as president approved by Congress in 1947 and ratified in 1951. Farley became chairman of the board of the Coca-Cola Export Corporation in 1940 and held that position for more than thirty years. books

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ELECTION FEVER: 1840ABAA

Autographed Letter Signed about Martin Van Buren's chances in Ohio

1840réf. 273086Washington 1840. unbound. 2 pages front and back 10 x 8 inches written by George Folts of Washington City to his brother James at Albany New York October 3rd 1840 concerning their misguided notion that Martin Van Buren the Democratic Party nominee for President would win the State of Ohio in the Presidential election despite the fact that his Whig opponent William Henry Harrison resides there in part: ".We have assurances from the best sources that Ohio will be ours in November.at all events from present appearances our chance seems much the best. All eyes are turned towards the Empire State it is the battle ground if she will prove true to her best interests and all will be well. Mr. Durham the bearer of this formerly of Albany now a Clerk in this office leaves tomorrow. He is a clever fellow and a good Democrat." Note: George Folts received his Clerks job in Washington through the patronage system. Usual folds plus some pencil underlining; very good- condition. "We have assurances from the best sources that Ohio will be ours in November" unknown books

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