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1823réf. 34261Raleigh 1823. 15 1 blank pp. Caption title as issued. Disbound. Scattered light and moderate foxing. Good. Signed at the end in type: "November 1823. CAROLINA." A scarce pro-Calhoun anti-Crawford piece for the 1824 presidential election. When Calhoun decided to seek the presidency in 1824 "both Crawford and Adams the acknowledged front-runners felt betrayed" Crawford because Calhoun had reportedly assured him that he would defer to the older man and wait his turn; and Adams because Calhoun had said that "for the good of the country.the next President should come from the North." Peterson THE GREAT TRIUMVIRATE 116. Miles 3. Thornton 1750. AI 12071 1- DLC. OCLC 42212191 3- NYHS Duke UNC as of December 2024. unknown
1848réf. 34421Bangor 1848. Folio sheet folded to 7-3/4" x 10". Printed on first page only; second page blank; third page with a manuscript letter urging the recipient whose last name is Chandler to campaign vigorously for the Taylor-Whig ticket. Very Good. A plea to get out the vote for Taylor. "If Gen. Taylor is elected he will be elected by the free and spontaneous action of the people uninfluenced by money or corruption.The signs are auspicious-- all that is wanted is union activity and organization." The printed letter is signed in type by Edward Kent J. Wingate Carr W.P. Wingate Wm. C. Hammatt Geo. W. Ingersoll and Moses L. Appleton. Not located on OCLC as of June 2026. unknown
1852réf. 27980Boston Fugitive Slave Law Printing on Free Soil Party Broadsheet "a vote for either of the former candidates is as truly a vote in favor of the sustenance defence and encouragement of American slavery in all its hideousness as a vote for the devil were a vote in favor of sin…" This broadsheet prints a summary of the three major party platforms—the "Compromise Democratic" Party the Whig Party and the Free Democratic Free Soil Party—headed with the injunction to "Read Reflect and then Act!" The second page includes the text of the Fugitive Slave Law or "America's Bill of Abominations!!" passed in September 1850 and an editorial by "Alexander" that explains the benefits of the Free Soil Party over the other two parties. ELECTION OF 1852. FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW. Printed Broadsheet Boston Commonwealth Extra July 1852. 2 pp. 25½ x 22 in. Excerpts "The Platforms of the Parties. Read Reflect and then Act!" p1 "The Fugitive Slave Law! America's Bill of Abominations!!" p2 "…Section 6 And be it further enacted That when a person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the United States has heretofore or shall hereafter escape into another State or Territory of the United States the person or persons to whom such service or labor may be due or his her or their agent or attorney duly authorized by power of attorney in writing acknowledged and certified under the seal of some legal officer or court of the State or Territory in which the same may be executed may pursue and reclaim such fugitive person either by procuring a warrant from some one of the courts judges or commissioners aforesaid of the proper circuit district or county for the apprehension of such fugitive from service or labor or by seizing and arresting such fugitive where the same can be done without process and by taking or causing such person to be taken forthwith before such court judge or commissioner whose duty it shall be to hear and determine the case of such claimant in a summary manner; and upon satisfactory proof being made by deposition or affidavit in writing to be taken and certified by such court judge or commissioner or by other satisfactory testimony duly taken and certified by some court magistrate justice of the peace or other legal officer authorized to administer an oath and take depositions under the laws of the State or Territory from which such person owing service or labor may have escaped with a certificate of such magistracy or other authority as aforesaid with the seal of the proper court or officer thereto attached which seal shall be sufficient to establish the competency of the proof and with proof also by affidavit of the identity of the person whose service or labor is claimed to be due as aforesaid that the person so arrested does in fact owe service or labor to the person or persons claiming him or her in the State or Territory from which such fugitive may have escaped as aforesaid and that said person escaped to make out and deliver to such claimant his or her agent or attorney a certificate setting forth the substantial facts as to the service or labor due from such fugitive to the claimant and of his or her escape from the State or Territory in which he or she was arrested with authority to such claimant or his or her agent or attorney to use such reasonable force and restraint as may be necessary under the circumstances of the case to take and remove such fugitive person back to the State or Territory whence he or she may have escaped as aforesaid. In no trial or hearing under this act shall the testimony of such alleged fugitive be admitted in evidence; and the certificates in this and the first fourth section mentioned shall be conclusive of the right of the person or persons in whose favor granted to remove such fugitive to the State or Territory from which he escaped and shall prevent all molestation of such person or persons by any process issued by any court judge magistrate or other person whomsoever. Section 7 And be it further enacted That any person who shall knowingly and willingly obstruct hinder or prevent such claimant his agent or attorney or any person or persons lawfully assisting him her or them from arresting such a fugitive from service or labor either with or without process as aforesaid or shall rescue or attempt to rescue such fugitive from service or labor from the custody of such claimant his or her agent or attorney or other person or persons lawfully assisting as aforesaid when so arrested pursuant to the authority herein given and declared; or shall aid abet or assist such person so owing service or labor as aforesaid directly or indirectly to escape from such claimant his agent or attorney or other person or persons legally authorized as aforesaid; or shall harbor or conceal such fugitive so as to prevent the discovery and arrest of such person after notice or knowledge of the fact that such person was a fugitive from service or labor as aforesaid shall for either of said offences be subject to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and imprisonment not exceeding six months by indictment and conviction before the District Court of the United States for the district in which such offence may have been committed or before the proper court of criminal jurisdiction if committed within any one of the organized Territories of the United States; and shall moreover forfeit and pay by way of civil damages to the party injured by such illegal conduct the sum of one thousand dollars for each fugitive so lost as aforesaid to be recovered by action of debt in any of the District or Territorial Courts aforesaid within whose jurisdiction the said offence may have been committed…" "To the People of the United States!—The Issue Before the Nation!" p2 "We present you this Document for the Campaign in order that its doctrines may be scanned before the minds of men become steeled against the power of just reasoning by the intense zeal and party prejudice of an exciting election. It is a simple and earnest appeal to reason." p2/c1 "The Free Democracy will favor the early policy of the country to limit localize and discourage slavery—the separation of national funds from banking institutions cheap postage a moderate revenue—the election of civil officers by the people—such internal improvements as are national and constitutional—the cordial reception of emigrants and exiles from the old world—the grant of the Public Lands free of cost to landless settlers—the immediate repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law—the recognition of the independence of Hayti—an arrangement in future treaties… "And the said party will oppose the exercise of doubtful constitutional powers—the demand for more slave States new slave territories and the nationalization of slavery—foreign interference with the right of a nation to govern itself." p2/c2 "The intrepid Free Democracy have sought the arena of political strife with a determination to oppose each of these powerful clock-work organizations. They publish a platform which presents a point-blank contrast to either and both the others. They claim the support of the people because their policy is founded in Right and Justice; and because the application of that policy to governmental affairs cannot be secured by the triumph of any other party." p2/c3-4 "While the attitude of the Free Democracy is that of a general championship of the rights of the humbler classes … its position upon the slavery question affords the great contrast and entitles it to the support of the lovers of Freedom and Right." p2/c4 "Whigs and Democrats would sanction slavery by law. The Free Democracy forbid the high-handed endeavor." p2/c4 "It follows that a vote for either of the former candidates is as truly a vote in favor of the sustenance defence and encouragement of American slavery in all its hideousness as a vote for the devil were a vote in favor of sin." p2/c4-5 Historical Background The author of the editorial may have been Alexander De Witt 1798-1879 a former Democrat who joined the Free Soil Party and was one of the six signatories of the "Appeal of the Independent Democrats" in January 1854 in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. President Zachary Taylor a Whig died in July 1850. His successor Millard Fillmore supported the Compromise of 1850 and enforcement of its stronger Fugitive Slave Law which made him unpopular in the North. At the Whig National Convention in Baltimore the delegates took 53 ballots to choose General Winfield Scott of New Jersey as their presidential candidate. At the Democratic convention also in Baltimore it took 48 ballots to select dark-horse choice Senator Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire as their presidential candidate. The Free Soil Party which opposed the extension of slavery chose Senator John P. Hale of New Hampshire as their presidential candidate. After the Compromise of 1850 many Barnburner Democrats and Conscience Whigs returned to their parties at the expense of the Free Soil Party. With no major policy differences between the Democrats and Whigs the election became a contest of personalities between Scott the anti-slavery war hero of the Mexican War and the pro-slavery Pierce who though eighteen years younger had also served in the war. In the election on November 2 1852 Pierce won 50.8 percent of the popular vote carrying 27 states with 254 electoral votes. Scott's 43.9 percent carried only 4 states with 42 electoral votes. Hale attracted 4.9 percent of the popular vote taking no electoral votes. The Commonwealth 1851-1853 was a newspaper published in Boston daily with occasional supplements under the motto "Circulate the documents." In 1852 it became the official newspaper of the Free Soil Party in Massachusetts. Condition: Very good overall. Boston Commonwealth
1860réf. 33068Washington City: Issued by the National Democratic Executive Committee 1860. 8pp caption title as issued. Disbound with light wear Good. Breckinridge Buchanan's Vice President was the 1860 presidential standard-bearer of the Southern Rights branch of the Democratic Party which had split with Stephen Douglas supporters during the 1860 nominating convention. Douglas had defied Buchanan and broken with him over the Kansas issue. This campaign piece demonstrating Northern support for the Breckinridge-Lane ticket charges the Douglas faction with unfairness hypocrisy and illegal attempts to silence the Southern Democrats at the abortive Democratic Convention at Baltimore. LCP 4504. Issued by the National Democratic Executive Committee unknown
1864réf. 3721N.p. but most likely Newark N.J. 1864. Good plus. Letterpress broadside printed in two columns 16.5 x 10 inches. Old folds small chip to top outer margin two tiny holes affecting just a few letters. A very rare Unionist broadside supporting the re-election of Abraham Lincoln in the critical presidential contest of 1864. The present broadside was authored in early June 1864 by New Jersey Republican Party stalwart Horace N. Congar an editor diplomat and politician who was at that time serving as U.S. consul to Hong Kong. In this rather stirring broadside which Congar writes from his position in Hong Kong he lauds "the thousands of earnest faithful men who are giving freely of their blood and treasure to the suppression of this infamous rebellion" and "the noble daring the undaunted courage and the determined valour of our brave soldiers of Freedom" and urges that "in November New Jersey will stand in the unbroken rank of States giving their verdict for the Party of Union." He also spends considerable space discussing the clear role of "the social moral and political evil" of slavery as the precipitating event of the Civil War. Congar writes that "the evil it has wrought was as natural as the poisoned breath of the Upas tree." Stated clearly Congar writes "I heartily rejoice at the destruction of slavery" and looks forward to the time when "I shall tread my native land with a newer life if within its boundless domain there shall not be heard the clanking chain or the cry of the suffering and the oppressed." "Horace Newton Congar 1817-1893 was a radical republican politician during the midnineteenth century and served on both the state and national levels. Mr. Congar had a great love for his party and hope for its success which is reflected in his writing . Horace Newton Congar was born in Newark on July 31 1817. He married Isabell Reeves and had two children; a daughter Ella and a son Horace Junior. Horace Congar taught school for a while and he studied law in his leisure time. He was admitted to the New Jersey State Bar in 1847 and later Cornelius Boice of Plainfield and Lewis Grove of Newark were his law partners. Congar was a friend of the abolitionist cause and he was one of the founders of the antislavery Free Soil Party in New Jersey. The party slogan 'Free Soil Free Speech Free Labor and Free Men' basically described the party platform. Congar later became a delegate from New Jersey to the Republican National Convention in 1848 which was held in Buffalo. He supported the nomination of Van Buren for president and Adams for vice-president" - New Jersey Historical Society. A rare and unusual Lincoln campaign broadside with just two physical copies in OCLC at AAS and Middlebury College. unknown
1848réf. 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
1844réf. 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
1876réf. 32441Washington 1876. 8pp caption title as issued. Disbound a bit roughly in the blank inner margin. Good. Despite its claims the Democratic Party is not "devoted to a pure high-toned efficient well-conducted civil service." In control of the House of Representatives the Democrats have turned out Union soldiers in droves and have appointed former Confederates to office in their place. Several columns listing names prove the point. OCLC records a number of institutional locations. unknown
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
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
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
1864réf. 62679Philadelphia: Published by Mason & Co. 1864. Singing for Lincoln in '64 A pocket songster printed to support Lincoln's reelection campaign in 1864 featuring a rather youthful portrait of the president on the front wrapper and twelve spirited pro-Union songs. The titles largely military in theme include such works as "Give us Noble Leaders" "The Veteran Volunteer" "Cast Your Votes for Abraham" "For Lincoln or McClellan you'll be called on to decide/ The one to save the union the other to divide" and "We are Coming Father Abraham 600000 More." The advertisements on the rear wrapper encourage readers to purchase a wide variety of Lincoln campaign badges emblems pins and photographs from the publishers. Despite Lincoln's overwhelming electoral victory in 1864 the race was rather close in Pennsylvania where this was printed – Lincoln took Philadelphia County by a scant few percent and actually failed to secure a majority in neighboring Montgomery and Bucks counties. 16mo. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers soiled and stained. Largely clean internally. Advertisements on rear wrapper shaved slightly at outer edge as issued. Good plus. MONAGHAN 323. unknown
1828réf. 36782Providence 1828. Elephant folio sheet folded to 4 pp each 15-1/4" x 22-1/2." Old folds toned several small holes and a fold split affecting a few letters. Good Issued only a month before the presidential election this paper leaves no doubt about where it stands. The Jackson-Calhoun ticket is the "BLOOD AND CARNAGE TICKET" condemning Jackson's duel with Dickinson his attempt "to assassinate" Senator Benton charging that he "he sheltered and caressed the infamous BURR at his house in 1806 and noting as well his tyranny in New Orleans and his butchery in Florida. Calhoun is "the head of the attempted rebellion in the South in 1828" a reference to Nullification. The paper endorses John Quincy Adams for a second term his first having been "singularly prosperous. unknown
réf. 003646Stourbridge: Mellard Printer Single sided broadside approximately 455mm x 285mm in size no place but probably Stourbridge and no date but 1859. A couple of small chips small hole to top left hand corner two closed tears to bottom edge slightly creased but generally in good order. Printed on blue paper the broadside relates to the 1859 by-election in Worcester East contested between the Whig Frederick Gough-Calthorpe and the Tory Sir John Pakington 2nd Baron Hampton where Gough-Calthorpe was elected with a majority of 339. This is an anti-Pakington broadside noting his personalisation of the campaign "The 'Printer's Devil' has exhausted his stock of I's" and quoting a newspaper article calling him a "bigoted Puseyite". The printer was probably Thomas Mellard of Stourbridge not located in BBTI who died in 1861. Not in Library Hub. First Edition. Unbound. Good. Elephant Folio. Broadside. Mellard [Printer] paperback
1844réf. 66208Concord: Hill & Moore November 9 1844. New Hampshire Democrats Celebrate Polk's Victory An ebullient "Extra" issue of the staunchly Democratic New Hampshire Patriot & Daily Gazette celebrating the not-quite-confirmed victory of James K. Polk in the 1844 presidential election. Published by lifelong Democratic partisan and former New Hampshire governor Isaac Hill the New Hampshire Patriot was a long-running political newspaper in that stronghold of Northern Democracy and this illustrated extra issue printed on Saturday November 9 displays the extent to which the editors and indeed the people of Concord rejoiced at the news. The main headline "New York Speaks!!!" refers to the pivotal flip of New York state from Whig to Democrat a fact which when combined with the expected news of a comfortable victory in Virginia more or less clinched the victory for Polk despite the results being out on several other states. While the optimistic figures in this article report a whopping majority for Polk in reality the Democrats won New York by a narrow margin of just one percent. A short article following this news offhandedly reports on a fatal local celebration noting that "A most shocking casualty occurred in Concord last evening while the democrats were celebrating the triumph of Polk and Dallas in New York by the firing of cannon. Mr. John L. Haynes of this town one of the officers of the Columbian Artillery had his left arm almost entirely blown off his right arm dreadfully shattered and his face shockingly burned in the act of ramming down a cartridge. The discharge took place in consequence of the vent not being stopped in the excitement and hurry of the firing." At the top of the central column a small cartoon depicts a man with an oversized steak knife and glass of wine declaring "That roast beef fetch it on!-and them 'two dollars a day!'" referencing William Henry Harrison's 1840 campaign slogan of "Harrison two dollars a day and roast beef." The remainder of the text reports the election results by county in New Hampshire which voted for Polk by a margin of nearly nineteen percent including votes for the ballot issues "On amending Constitution" and "On abolishing capital punishment." An entertaining and ephemeral piece printed at the culmination of a pivotal election. Old folds. Light tanning a few small chips and tears at edges. Very good. BRIGHAM p.444. unknown
1864réf. 40219Downieville CA 1864. Broadside ticket 2-3/4" x 3-7/8." Small mounting remnants on blank verso. Very Good. "Sierra County Republican ticket for the election of 1864 in which the national Republican Party temporarily adopted the name National Union Party. Henry Molineux was treasurer of Sierra County Calif. of which Downieville is the seat; see N.Z.R. Molyneux History genealogical and biographical of the Molyneux families Syracuse N.Y.: C.W. Bardeen 1904 p. 99-102." OCLC entry. OCLC 78931206 Brown BYU as of July 2024. The Lincoln Financial Foundation also owns a copy. unknown
1824réf. 62431N.p. but likely New York. 1824. Rare Illustrated Anti-Jackson Broadside A very rare illustrated anti-Jackson broadside from the hotly-contested election of 1824 addressed to "manufacturers and mechanics." The presidential election of 1824 was a complicated four-candidate affair with frontrunners Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams trailed by Henry Clay and William Crawford each drawing considerable support in certain districts. In fact the race was so close that no candidate won a sufficient majority of the electoral vote and Adams was elected by the House of Representatives under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment despite carrying four fewer states than Jackson and the glow of the "Era of Good Feeling" was dimmed once and for all. Addressed to "Manufacturers and Mechanics" this broadside focuses primarily on Jackson's economic policies specifically his anti-tariff stance. "If the Jackson Party prevail" the text proclaims "the next Congress will be opposed to the tariff to mechanics manufacturers and domestic industry.The consequence will be that the sound of the shuttle will no longer be heard. Our stores will be filled with British and Scotch ginghams shirtings checks and bed-ticks; and not a place will be found for a yard of American cloth.Don't suffer yourselves to be deceived by stories that General Jackson is your friend.What will his battle of New Orleans avail you if you are thrown out of employment and made beggars" Even Jackson's campaign materials they claim are made from British exports. The text seems targeted at a New York and New England audience pointing out South Carolina and "the southern section of the country" as the fervent opponents of domestic industry and warning readers not to be "the dupes of such men as William Coleman" owner of The New York Evening Post. Throughout the broadside maintains a strong anti-British stance and suggests that Jackson and his supporters including Coleman are better friends of Great Britain than America: "Coleman is the man who exulted when a British fleet lay off the Hook. The Evening Post was received wet from his office on board their ships every day. Nothing but respect for the laws prevented our incensed countrymen from demolishing the press and types that printed the diabolical treason." While the text espouses Henry Clay as the man of the hour "the truest ablest and best friend you ever had" the woodcut illustration places a ship named the "John Quincy Adams of Washington" front and center. It flies banners reading "Free Trade & Sailors Rights" and "No Colonial Subjection" and is flanked on either side by vignettes subtitled "National industry is National Wealth" and "Agriculture is the Source of Prosperity." Ironically the largest controversy in Jackson's presidency a decade later would be over his lack of action against tariffs when his failure to repeal Adams' 1828 "Tariff of Abominations" resulted in the Nullification Crisis and threats of civil war. We locate only one other copy of this broadside at the Library of Congress. A rare and interesting illustrated political broadside from a highly contentious election. Old folds minor splitting at right edge of central horizontal fold. Lightly tanned. Very good. REILLY AMERICAN POLITICAL PRINTS 1824-3. OCLC 299947334. hardcover
1832réf. 29452Baltimore: Printed by Samuel Harker Republican Office. 1832. 10pp disbound light to moderate foxing Good. Contemporary ink correction to the imprint '1831' to '1832'. "Convention held May 21-23 1832 resulting in the nomination of Martin Van Buren." Wise & Cronin Martin Van Buren The names of a couple of hundred delegates are listed. Van Buren was nominated on the first ballot as Andrew Jackson's running mate with minimal competition from Richard Johnson and Philip R. Barbour. Wise & Cronin 53. AI 12123 4. Printed by Samuel Harker, Republican Office... unknown
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
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
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
1848réf. 70790Richmond VA 1848. Printed Whig party electoral ticket 6 ½ x 3 ¾ inches the text enclosed within a double-thin rule border. OCLC locates two copies Virginia Library of Virginia. Very good. unknown
1812réf. 68222Pennsylvania. 1812. Pennsylvania Elects Madison in 1812 An interesting early American political manuscript listing fifty-one electors by county or district with tallies next to their names which are then added in a final column. Among the more notable of the electors listed are Charles Thompson and Thomas McKean. In the election Pennsylvania voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison who defeated Federalist candidate DeWitt Clinton. An unusual piece of political Americana. Old folds light tanning and wear. Very good. unknown
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 April 2025. Apparently the Ohio Historical Society and Western Reserve also own a copy. unknown
1828réf. 34260Albany: Printed for the Albany Argus 1828. 32pp disbound and stitched. Title and several other leaves browned widely scattered foxing. Good. This is one of three 1828 issues all scarce printed in the heated presidential race of that year. Anti-Jackson forces charged that his unrestrained martial personality-- highlighted by executing six militia men after the Battle of New Orleans-- unfitted him for the presidency. New York Democrats defend Jackson denounce the falsehoods surrounding that incident and call the official record of the inquiry "useless rubbish." Howes J4. Wise & Cronin 232. Sabin 56778. Printed for the Albany Argus unknown
