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1876réf. 32440Washington 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 books
1877réf. 5770N.p. likely Springfield Il: ca. January 8 1877. Good. Three long galley leaves each approximately 6.5 x 19 inches and printed on rectos only with numerous pencil emendations. Old folds and creases numerous chips and tears to margins pervasive wrinkling making reading a bit challenging at times but with no loss to text. Small portion of third leaf containing the last eight lines of text detached but present. Not in great shape but seemingly unique. A galley proof of a speech by General John A. McClernand in the midst of the contentious Election of 1876 which was so far as we can determine neither delivered nor published. A pencil note at top reveals his authorship and notes the speech was intended to be delivered January 8 at the “Great Citizens Convention” in Springfield Illinois almost certainly in 1877 following the recent election in the Fall of 1876. McClernand was an Illinois contemporary of Lincoln's a Democratic Congressman and War Democrat. He was also an ally of another Illinois politician and Lincoln adversary Stephen A. Douglas. He was appointed a general during the Civil War largely through political maneuvering and was generally considered incompetent. McClernand greatly resented the authority of Grant who finally relieved him of command in June 1863. Following the war McClernand became a leading critic of Congressional Reconstruction as well as the Grant Administration in general. He also chaired the 1876 Democratic National Convention which nominated Tilden for the presidency. Here McClernand bitterly attacks Grant his presidential Administration and Reconstruction. According to McClernand Grant's "tastes and habits had been acquired in the field and the camp -- in implicit obedience or absolute command. He knew no other rule of action but the military law and army regulations. As a consequence he has lamentably failed as a civil administrator." As President fraudulently and illegally Grant "joined with Kellog a political adventurer and Durell a federal judge to overthrow the will of the people of Louisiana." Law and order says McClernand "lay prostrate and panting at the feet of her remorseless tyrants." McClernand also assails Grant's highhanded tactics in the other Southern States. Now says McClernand "the president and his accomplices have now applied themselves to defeat the will of the people by a parliamentary device. They claimed for the President of the Senate the right and power to count the electoral votes and to declare the result and by implication that that right and power would be so exercised as to count Tilden out of his election and to count Hayes into one." He wasn't wrong. In one of the closest most hotly-contested and highly-controversial elections in American history to put it simply Hayes effectively stole the election by agreeing to remove northern soldiers from the South and end Reconstruction. It would be interesting to know what McClernand thought of the ultimate result -- he didn't get Tilden but he did get the end of Reconstruction. "Yet another prominent Illinoian who played a role in the Civil War John Alexander McClernand was born in Breckinridge County Kentucky before moving to Shawneetown Illinois at a young age. Similar to fellow Illinoian Abraham Lincoln McClernand was a largely self-taught lawyer who began practicing in Shawneetown in 1835. Also like Lincoln McClernand served in the Black Hawk War. However McClernand was a staunch Democrat. In 1835 he established the newspaper Shawneetown Democrat. He was active in Democratic politics at both the state and federal level serving in the Illinois House of Representatives and eventually Congress. In Congress McClernand was a stalwart Jacksonian Democrat who strongly disliked abolitionists. He strongly opposed the Wilmot Proviso which banned slavery in the territory gained after the Mexican-American War. He became a key ally of fellow Democrat and Illinoian Stephen A. Douglas helping him pass the Compromise of 1850. As tensions rose approaching the election of 1860 McClernand campaigned for Douglas’s presidency and became a Unionist. After war broke out in the following April McClernand helped raise volunteers for the Union Army. Because Lincoln needed to retain a wide base of support and retain connections with Democrats in Illinois he appointed McClernand a brigadier general on May 17 1861. McClernand’s military career would be defined by an ongoing clash with fellow Illinoian General Ulysses S. Grant. Grant a seasoned West Pointer who served in Mexico was irritated by McClernand a political general with little military experience. Further exacerbating relations was McClernand’s tendency to boast about his exploits and diminish the achievements of other commanders" - American Battlefield Trust's entry on John A. McClernand. ca. January 8 unknown books
1880réf. 40342New York: Copyright by Geo. H. Hanks 1880. Metamorphic card 3-1/4" x 5-3/8" fully opened. Richly colored light wear Very Good. The unopened illustration depicts a dignified serious Hancock as a rooster in elaborate feathers. But when opened Hancock has lost his feathers is emaciated and bleeding from the mouth. The caption reads "November 2nd. 1880 Hancock Hancock Boo-Hoo-Hoo." Winfield Scott Hancock a decorated Civil War general and a hero of Gettysburg was the losing Democrats' presidential candidate in 1880 opposing Republican James A. Garfield. The verso entitled 'Rhymes for Young Democrats' brilliantly skewers the overt racism of the Democratic Party. It begins: "Sing a song of shotguns Pocket full of knives Four-and- twenty black men Running for their lives; When the polls are open Shut the nigger's mouth Isn't that a bully way To make a solid South" OCLC 32320004 1- Brown as of August 2024. Copyright by Geo. H. Hanks unknown books
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
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
1892réf. 36912New York 1892. Folio broadside 10" x 13" printed in three columns beneath caption title. Minor wear at blank upper edge Very Good plus. "The Republican party of 1860 was the exponent of the grandest ideas and the most ennobling sentiments but to what abysmal depths has it fallen in these times. It now stands for nothing more than a corrupting combination between plutocrats and politicians to plunder the people." Three former Republicans express their dismay at their Party's moral collapse in the Gilded Age and their indignation at Republican mistreatment of Union Civil War veterans. They announce their plans to vote for Grover Cleveland the Democratic candidate in the upcoming presidential election. They are confident "that the interests of the old soldiers are safe with the Democratic party and Grover Cleveland who has always been sincere who has always kept his promises." The three are William Green District Attorney of Fulton County NY; Harrison Clark "once Dep't Comd'r of N.Y. G.A.R. and George B. Loud Past Jun. Vice Dep't Comd'r of Florida G.A.R." They express their disappointment and anger in these printed letters dated in early October 1892 to Theodore F. Reed Secretary of the National Veterans' Tariff Reform League. Not located on OCLC as of September 2024 or the online sites of AAS NYPL or NYHS. unknown books
1896réf. 41421Chicago: Edwards Deutsch & Heitmann 1896. Elephant folio broadside 36" x 48" mounted on linen at time of manufacture. A graphic black-and-white campaign broadside for Republican William McKinley's 1896 presidential contest against Democrat William Jennings Bryan. Early folds with significant wear and splitting along folds including the backing several archival cloth tape repairs on verso. Moderate toning at the fold lines. Good only. "McKinley welcomes workers to U.S. mills W.J. Bryan welcomes foreign silver." Library of Congress copy of this print but reprinted in 1900 with the addition of large red type "McKinley was Right in 1896." Democrat Bryan favoring free coinage of silver and elimination of tariffs welcomes foreigners bringing to the Mint silver from India Germany England Mexico Japan China and elsewhere. Republican McKinley favoring the gold standard and tariffs to protect American industries welcomes prosperous American workers to American mills. "From Major McKinley's Address to His Old Comrades = In = Arms. - August 12th 1896." OCLC 20499606 1- Detroit Pub. Lib. as of April 2026. Edwards, Deutsch & Heitmann unknown books
1912réf. 40330Westmoreland County PA 1912. 4to broadside in bold type faces and fonts. A rather clumsy repair on blank verso to a horizontal fold split. Else Very Good. This broadside is a Who's Who of Jeanette Westmoreland County Pennsylvania citizenry. They apparently backed the losers in the three-way 1912 presidential election President Taft; former President Roosevelt who ran on the Bull Moose Ticket. John H. Trescher Proprietor and co-founder of Jeannette Dispatch. William Elkin postmaster. S. Clark Daugherty Drugs and Books. George H. Trimble Proprietor of Hotel Marian. Peter W. Carney occupation listed as "lab". John "Jack" Smith occupation listed as lab. Lowry A. Reese Shoes. Joseph M. Hart Bartender at Hotel Kramer. Jacob Cotter Bartender at the Miller House. John H. Young Bartender at the Hotel Jeannette. Elias Adolph Proprietor of New McKee. William C. Koerbel of Koerbel Brothers florists and sheet metal workers. Charles S. Shumaker of Shumaker Ringer & Foster. Henry Levy Levy Brothers Clothing and Men's Furnishings. Albert Vogel baker. William Euwer Furniture and Carpets. Edward M. Gaughen barber. Eleazer Katz clerk at Union Clothing Store. John W. Keltz cashier at First National Bank. H. Homer Miller Insurance and Real Estate Funeral Director and Embalmer. Taken from R.L. Polk & Co.'s Greensburg Derry Jeannette and Latrobe Directory for 1913 accessed at Ancestry website August 2024. Not located on OCLC as of August 2024. unknown books
1938réf. 70032Winder GA 1938. This rally at least in part involved the primary challenge of Eugene Talmadge to incumbent U.S. Senator Walter George a portion of a poster for Talmadge is pictured in one photo; George was eventually re-elected handily as was Governor Eurith Rivers. "Georgia / 1938" in pencil on verso of one photo the business sign for J. L. Saul Co. clearly pictured in another. Very good lot. unknown books
1856réf. 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
1856réf. 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
1833réf. AQ25008Birmingham: Printed by William Wood 1833. Seven trimmed woodcut engravings printed on pink paper with a further trimmed title and imprint panel on white paper. Browned and marked. An apparently unknown example of pictorial electoral satire removed from an album by a previous owner where the items were by repute grouped together with the title and imprint panel albeit printed on different paper - suggesting that these perhaps issued in book form but have since sunk without trace. The seven captioned images are: 'Reading the Riot Act' 'A Crane two Walkers and a Barker or the Political Dis-Union' 'A Fry-er setting a trap for the Consumers of Corn and longing for a Broil' 'A Maiden Speech or an Orator and his note book' 'A windfall to the Friars assistant in the shape of a Stoner' 'Cock Robin and Cock Robin's son' 'Negro head short cut pigtail and York returns or a boat about until the ferry no glee' The issues raised including radicalism the corn laws and the riot act all and the reference to a 'new year' election all suggest that these were issued around the time of the 1832/3 General Election; the first conduced after the introduction of the Reform Act which expanded the electorate especially in cities like Birmingham where in this election two radicals were elected unopposed. Entirely unrecorded in OCLC; neither the title nor the captions of any of the seven images elicits any locations in institutional collections. . Dimensions at maximum 100 x 110 mm. Printed by William Wood unknown
175811 p. in-8° Musica di Michelangelo Vella, Parole di un brillante socio colombario.
1868réf. 36501New York: Currier & Ives 1868. Lithograph illustrated broadside by Currier & Ives oblong 11" x 15-1/2". Matted. Light dusting Near Fine. Cartoon characters identified by name; in lower right corner "on Stone by Cameron." John Cameron was a talented artist employed at Currier & Ives. In lower left corner "Thos. Worth. Sketch." Worth designed many cartoon broadsides for Currier & Ives. "An election-year cartoon invoking both Grant's humble beginnings as a tanner and his successful Civil War military career. Popular New York governor John Thompson Hoffman dressed as an Indian the 'Great Sachem of Tammany' presents Democratic candidates Horatio Seymour and Francis P. Blair Jr. to Grant. He addresses Grant 'Here General is a couple more hides to be tanned when will they be done' Grant smokes a cigar and wears the leather apron of a tanner rolled-up sleeves exposing his muscular arms. He replies 'Well I'll finish them off early in November.' "At right corner former Confederate generals Robert E. Lee Simon Bolivar Buckner and John C. Pemberton hold their rumps and hop about in pain. They announce 'This is to Certify that we have had our hides tanned and that the work was by him thoroughly done." Reilly AAS's entry asserts "Issued well before 1868 election." Reilly 1868-11. Weitenkampf 159. OCLC 191119896 1- Villanova 1136555720 1- AAS as of October 2024. Currier & Ives unknown
1868réf. 36501New York: Currier & Ives 1868. Lithograph illustrated broadside by Currier & Ives oblong 11" x 15-1/2". Matted. Light dusting Near Fine. Cartoon characters identified by name; in lower right corner "on Stone by Cameron." John Cameron was a talented artist employed at Currier & Ives. In lower left corner "Thos. Worth. Sketch." Worth designed many cartoon broadsides for Currier & Ives. "An election-year cartoon invoking both Grant's humble beginnings as a tanner and his successful Civil War military career. Popular New York governor John Thompson Hoffman dressed as an Indian the 'Great Sachem of Tammany' presents Democratic candidates Horatio Seymour and Francis P. Blair Jr. to Grant. He addresses Grant 'Here General is a couple more hides to be tanned when will they be done' Grant smokes a cigar and wears the leather apron of a tanner rolled-up sleeves exposing his muscular arms. He replies 'Well I'll finish them off early in November.' "At right corner former Confederate generals Robert E. Lee Simon Bolivar Buckner and John C. Pemberton hold their rumps and hop about in pain. They announce 'This is to Certify that we have had our hides tanned and that the work was by him thoroughly done." Reilly AAS's entry asserts "Issued well before 1868 election." Reilly 1868-11. Weitenkampf 159. OCLC 191119896 1- Villanova 1136555720 1- AAS as of October 2024. Currier & Ives unknown books
1845réf. List3867Hanover Furnace New Jersey 1845. 3 pp autograph letter signed "Richard Jones" written on an embossed Henry Clay campaign lettersheet from the 1844 presidential election. Letter written on Henry Clay lettersheet identified as HC-9 in Milgram's reference on presidential letterhead. 8 ¼ x 10 ½ inches. Some small tears to final page intersecting with text; else Near Fine condition. A strong post-election Whig letter written shortly before James K. Polk's inauguration discussing Texas annexation slavery the tariff manufacturing and the defeat of Henry Clay. Jones writes to a friend whose "political heresies" he rejects asking what could have induced "a member of our goodly society of Friends" to support annexation. His objection is not only to territorial expansion but to the political consequences of adding Texas to the Union: "will not her admission secure a free trade & slavery ascendency always in our national councils." He then turns to the tariff from the perspective of a furnace operator or manufacturer worrying that repeal would damage his works and the broader market for manufactured goods. The Clay campaign lettersheet is itself part of the letter's content: Jones calls it paper "with the brand of the last campaign upon it" declares himself "a true Whig" and says he may save some sheets until 1848 though he dislikes "that silly looking coon in the corner." Full text follows. "Hanover Furnace Feby 5 1845 Resp. Friend "For by that term I must continue to call you notwithstanding what I consider your political heresies but you know we do not talk politicks together and I think it is best that we should continue to abstain from them but I should like very much to know what arguments there are weighty enough to induce a member of our goodly society of Friends to vote for the annexation of Texas will not her admission secure a free trade & slavery ascendency always in our national councils. You said when I last saw you that the tariff was not a party question and the open ground that the advocates some of them in this part of the country of I or V. Polk would induce me to believe so but I have not quite found so and although contrary to the advice of some of my friends I have concluded to continue the operations of my works if the tariff is repealed I shall be dished even if the article of is still protected as it is not possible for one branch to be successful whilst the rest are prostrated as it is not so much the keeping out the foreign article that helps us as the customers that general prosperity enables to consume the article manufactured. I did not sit down to write a political letter but would like your judgment with regard to the course which will be pursued by the next administration & congress with regard to the Tariff. "I do not think it requires an apology from me for writing to you upon paper with the brand of the last campaign upon it for you know me to be a true Whig and as such shall keep my Banner flying to the last. I am come of a Welsh tribe who have never been conquered and I think of keeping a few of these sheets until 48 although I do not like that silly looking coon in the corner and I hope by that time that nothing but sterling argument will be used and our congressional candidates will be forced to stump it face to face but I will not tire you with my foolishness. I cannot give you much information as to the tone of Public conversation but I never knew any matter of great importance to be before congress that has excited so little feeling as the annexation of Texas there is not one man in twenty that knows any thing about it. The Whigs beaten and disappointed feel themselves powerless for the present and do not think it worth while to agitate themselves about things they cannot help but let me assure you that they feel themselves only beaten but not conquered and when the occasion comes they will raise in their might mighty and woe unto those who legislate for any other view than the good of their country. But I am like a lady I have come to the postscript before I begin to write about what I commenced for. Mr. Spencer says you have been making some enquiries about some Atkins claims upon McDonald Branch and I have promised Black that I will commence proceedings against him as soon as I have your opinion now if you have formed one upon the subject let me have it if not will you give it your attention when you come home and can also devote some time to the Polebridge affair in the Spring. I am very desirous that should be settled as well as some other things and you are the only man that can do it for me.I remain as I always have been and always hope to be your personal friend Richard Jones" An interesting letter from the aftermath of the 1844 election with unusually direct content on Texas annexation slavery free trade tariff protection and Whig political identity. The letter is also a good use of campaign stationery: Jones not only writes on a Henry Clay lettersheet but comments on the "brand of the last campaign" the Whig "Banner" and the campaign imagery itself. . unknown
1845réf. List3867Hanover Furnace New Jersey 1845. 3 pp autograph letter signed "Richard Jones" written on an embossed Henry Clay campaign lettersheet from the 1844 presidential election. Letter written on Henry Clay lettersheet identified as HC-9 in Milgram's reference on presidential letterhead. 8 ¼ x 10 ½ inches. Some small tears to final page intersecting with text; else Near Fine condition. A strong post-election Whig letter written shortly before James K. Polk's inauguration discussing Texas annexation slavery the tariff manufacturing and the defeat of Henry Clay. Jones writes to a friend whose "political heresies" he rejects asking what could have induced "a member of our goodly society of Friends" to support annexation. His objection is not only to territorial expansion but to the political consequences of adding Texas to the Union: "will not her admission secure a free trade & slavery ascendency always in our national councils." He then turns to the tariff from the perspective of a furnace operator or manufacturer worrying that repeal would damage his works and the broader market for manufactured goods. The Clay campaign lettersheet is itself part of the letter's content: Jones calls it paper "with the brand of the last campaign upon it" declares himself "a true Whig" and says he may save some sheets until 1848 though he dislikes "that silly looking coon in the corner." Full text follows. "Hanover Furnace Feby 5 1845 Resp. Friend "For by that term I must continue to call you notwithstanding what I consider your political heresies but you know we do not talk politicks together and I think it is best that we should continue to abstain from them but I should like very much to know what arguments there are weighty enough to induce a member of our goodly society of Friends to vote for the annexation of Texas will not her admission secure a free trade & slavery ascendency always in our national councils. You said when I last saw you that the tariff was not a party question and the open ground that the advocates some of them in this part of the country of I or V. Polk would induce me to believe so but I have not quite found so and although contrary to the advice of some of my friends I have concluded to continue the operations of my works if the tariff is repealed I shall be dished even if the article of is still protected as it is not possible for one branch to be successful whilst the rest are prostrated as it is not so much the keeping out the foreign article that helps us as the customers that general prosperity enables to consume the article manufactured. I did not sit down to write a political letter but would like your judgment with regard to the course which will be pursued by the next administration & congress with regard to the Tariff. "I do not think it requires an apology from me for writing to you upon paper with the brand of the last campaign upon it for you know me to be a true Whig and as such shall keep my Banner flying to the last. I am come of a Welsh tribe who have never been conquered and I think of keeping a few of these sheets until 48 although I do not like that silly looking coon in the corner and I hope by that time that nothing but sterling argument will be used and our congressional candidates will be forced to stump it face to face but I will not tire you with my foolishness. I cannot give you much information as to the tone of Public conversation but I never knew any matter of great importance to be before congress that has excited so little feeling as the annexation of Texas there is not one man in twenty that knows any thing about it. The Whigs beaten and disappointed feel themselves powerless for the present and do not think it worth while to agitate themselves about things they cannot help but let me assure you that they feel themselves only beaten but not conquered and when the occasion comes they will raise in their might mighty and woe unto those who legislate for any other view than the good of their country. But I am like a lady I have come to the postscript before I begin to write about what I commenced for. Mr. Spencer says you have been making some enquiries about some Atkins claims upon McDonald Branch and I have promised Black that I will commence proceedings against him as soon as I have your opinion now if you have formed one upon the subject let me have it if not will you give it your attention when you come home and can also devote some time to the Polebridge affair in the Spring. I am very desirous that should be settled as well as some other things and you are the only man that can do it for me.I remain as I always have been and always hope to be your personal friend Richard Jones" An interesting letter from the aftermath of the 1844 election with unusually direct content on Texas annexation slavery free trade tariff protection and Whig political identity. The letter is also a good use of campaign stationery: Jones not only writes on a Henry Clay lettersheet but comments on the "brand of the last campaign" the Whig "Banner" and the campaign imagery itself. . unknown books
1828réf. 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
1828réf. 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
réf. 005230No Place: No Publisher Single sided printed broadside approximately 380mm x 490mm in size no publisher no place but almost certainly Kendal n.d. c.1874. Creased with a couple of small tears to foot a couple of spots of foxing but generally clean. Probably for a municipal election in Kendal in 1874 Henry Thompson stood in the West Ward and Hargreaves in the East Ward. Not in Library Hub. First Edition. Unbound. Good. Elephant Folio. Broadside. No Publisher Paperback
1864réf. 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
1864réf. 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
1860réf. 69456NP: np 1860. Narrow printed broadside 26 x 10 cm. Edge tears repaired on verso with Japanese paper. Claiborne F. Jackson won the Governorship of Missouri and began his term of office in January 1861. The debate over whether Missouri would secede from the Union began shortly after he took office and he aligned himself with the Confederacy. The state legislature vacated his election and a provisional governor was appointed to replace him. Jackson and his supporters removed to Arkansas after the Battle of Pea Ridge. see: his brief biography on the Missouri State Archives Digital Heritage site. np unknown
1860réf. 69456NP: np 1860. Narrow printed broadside 26 x 10 cm. Edge tears repaired on verso with Japanese paper. Claiborne F. Jackson won the Governorship of Missouri and began his term of office in January 1861. The debate over whether Missouri would secede from the Union began shortly after he took office and he aligned himself with the Confederacy. The state legislature vacated his election and a provisional governor was appointed to replace him. Jackson and his supporters removed to Arkansas after the Battle of Pea Ridge. see: his brief biography on the Missouri State Archives Digital Heritage site. np unknown books
1838réf. 38949New York: H.R. Robinson 1838. Oblong lithograph broadside 13-1/4" x 20." Shallow blank left margin chips from a prior mounting. Light outer margin darkening. A clean image signed 'Blanks fecit' perhaps Edward Williams Clay. Very Good. A satiric commentary on thwarted Democratic hopes to control New York City. Whigs dashed Democratic expectations in the New York municipal elections of spring 1838. Successful Whig mayoral candidate Aaron Clark holds and restrains two horses by their tails: 'Stop my good fellows you are going on a fools errand you are counting your chickens before they are hatched'." His victory has delayed if not destroyed Loco Foco hopes of political dominance. On the right a Loco Foco supporter in the garb of a carman or driver sits on a horse and tries to ride toward Albany to fulfill his ambitions: 'Marcy must resign in my favor and I'll be next Governor myself for this job!' Reilly suggests the man is either Isaac Varian the Loco Foco mayoral candidate or Democratic Congressman C.C. Cambreling. On the left a uniformed Jacksonian Democrat sits on his horse. He wants to go to Washington: 'I shall insist on Matty's making me next Collector.' He is probably Tammany leader Jesse Hoyt who indeed was successful in his quest to be Collector of the Port of New York. Reilly 1838-11. Weitenkampf 52. OCLC 299944597 1- DLC 1136565725 1- AAS as of December 2025. Not at NYPL or NYHS web sites. H.R. Robinson unknown
