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1860Best.-Nr. 40746Washington: National Democratic Executive Committee 1860. 32pp. Folded and untrimmed. Scattered light foxing. Very Good. Caption title as issued. The Southern wing of the Democratic Party taking time away from its massive assaults on fellow Democrat Stephen A. Douglas attacks the Constitutional Union Party headed by John Bell of Tennessee. Bell is portrayed as an unprincipled friend of Compromise who often voted with the Abolitionists and is unsound on the Kansas Question and the Dred Scott Decision. Sabin 7673 ref. Not in Miles LCP. National Democratic Executive Committee unknown books
1856Best.-Nr. 19546Washington 1856. 14 2 blank pp. Disbound partly loosened. Tanned with some foxing and light wear. Good. "Principally of his frauds in the purchase of horses in 1846 and 1847 while disbursing officer in California." Cowan. "Carelessness recklessness favoritism and connivance with the claimants." That's the verdict on Fremont. The pamphlet examines "the chief dealings of Colonel Fremont as a disbursing officer during the campaign in California whilst he commanded the volunteers" during 1846-1847. Tables facts figures are produced and analyzed. FIRST EDITION. Cowan 222. Rocq 16684. Not in Eberstadt Decker. unknown books
1856Best.-Nr. 18521Indianapolis 1856. 16pp disbound. Scattered foxing. Good. A Democratic presidential campaign pamphlet. It charges that during the brief time that Fremont "the Black Republican candidate for the Presidency" was a U.S. Senator his votes-- opposing the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia-- showed him "to be a most ultra pro-slavery man." The hypocritical Republicans "use the language of patriotism and of love for the Union.whilst their votes their acts and their organization lead only to a dissolution and all the evils that must follow." The Know-Nothings are just as bad: they "have waged a cruel and relentless war upon foreigners and members of the Roman Catholic church. These classes have been proscribed." Moreover "Abolitionism and Know-nothingism were allies." FIRST EDITION. LCP 3837. 112 Eberstadt 150d. Not in Sabin Decker Miles. unknown books
1856Best.-Nr. 40431np 1856. 16pp caption title as issued. Disbound first leaf toned. Good. This wild anti-Fremont attack charges the Republicans with violating "the most solemn treaties of the United States with the Indians" attempting "to stop the wheels of government stir up strife and discord in the country and produce anarchy and violence in Kansas." This Democratic pamphlet asserts that "The last and only hope of the Fremont men consists in blood violence and murder in Kansas." Sabin 68197. unknown books
1856Best.-Nr. 14821np 1856. Folded old binder holes in blank inner margin. 16pp. Light wear and tan. Good to Very Good. A wild anti-Fremont attack charging that Republicans have violated "the most solemn treaties of the United States with the Indians" and have sought "to stop the wheels of government stir up strife and discord in the country and produce anarchy and violence in Kansas." This Democratic pamphlet asserts "The last and only hope of the Fremont men consists in blood violence and murder in Kansas." FIRST EDITION. Sabin 68197. unknown books
1856Best.-Nr. 40822New York: New York Tribune 1856. Caption title as issued 16pp. Disbound and wear. Good. After the Whig Party collapsed under the weight of the Sectional Crisis keen competition emerged among Democrats Republicans and Know-Nothings Americans for the support of its erstwhile members. This pamphlet urges anti-slavery Whigs to vote for the new Republican Party which fielded its first presidential candidate this year. A close examination of Fillmore's record particularly as Zachary Taylor's vice president reveals that he was no friend of that Whig President. Political expediency has caused him to trim his anti-slavery views: he is now a reliable ally of the South. Although standard bibliographies have failed to include this pamphlet it appears in OCLC under several accession numbers. FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker Miles. New York Tribune unknown books
1852Best.-Nr. 29127New York 1852. 16pp disbound with archivally reinforced inner margin. Good. This pamphlet records a Democratic Party rally during the 1852 presidential contest endorsing "with joyous hearts the names of Franklin Pierce and William R. King as the favored standard bearers of our political faith in the present campaign. In looking over the troubles and darkness which hung around our National Convention the name of Pierce was discovered like an oasis in our desert to cheer and gladden us all." A variant issue did not print the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and omitted that reference from the title. The Resolutions are printed here beginning at the bottom of page 12 and ending in the middle of page 15. Pages 15-16 print the list of Evening Post Documents for the 1852 campaign. Sabin 89203. OCLC 21984603 5as of July 2012. unknown books
1852Best.-Nr. 25283New York 1852. 16pp untrimmed uncut and folded. Dusted lightly worn some spine splitting. Good. A Democratic Party rally during the 1852 presidential campaign endorsing "with joyous hearts the names of Franklin Pierce and William R. King as the favored standard bearers of our political faith in the present campaign. In looking over the troubles and darkness which hung around our National Convention the name of Pierce was discovered like an oasis in our desert to cheer and gladden us all." This is a variant printing. Our copy's title ends as noted above; the title of the other issue ends with 'Also Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 and 1799.' Our issue does not print those Resolutions. Pages 15-16 print the list of Evening Post Documents for the 1852 campaign. OCLC 319715221 2as of 7/12. See Sabin 89203 and OCLC 21984603 5 for the other issue. unknown books
1852Best.-Nr. 17434np 1852. 15pp caption title as issued bound in modern wrappers dusted Good. An 1852 pamphlet defending the Whigs and Scott against Democrats' charges of extravagance; and rebutting their charge of corruption in settling the Galphin case in which the Taylor administration made payment to the heirs of a Georgia revolutionary war figure who had expended money in support of that struggle. The Democrats are the Party of extravagance and corruption: "He who shouted STOP THE THIEF most lustily was found with the Stolen Pig under his own cloak!" Not in Sabin or evidently NUC. unknown books
1852Best.-Nr. 26314Boston: Beals Greene & Co. 1852. Disbound 24pp printed in double columns. Light wear Very Good. The 1852 presidential campaign pitting the Democrat Pierce against the Whig Scott featured an unseemly competition for the votes of Irish Catholic immigrants. Whigs who were at a disadvantage in this contest charged Pierce with being an anti-Catholic bigot. "The object of the Scott politicians in making the charge of intolerance at this time against General Pierce is to obtain the Catholic vote. It is an appeal to a SECT IN RELIGION to get its members to vote a certain way in POLITICS." This pamphlet rebuts the charge demonstrating that Pierce supported extending equal rights to Catholics in New Hampshire via constitutional amendment. Not in Sabin Miles Eberstadt Decker. OCLC lists a number of institutional copies. Beals, Greene & Co. unknown books
1852Best.-Nr. 18550np. 1852. Disbound with some loosening 8pp. Printed in double columns. Caption title as issued. Light tan and wear Good. An attempt to tar General Winfield Scott the Whigs' 1852 presidential candidate with abolitionism; and to promote Franklin Pierce who by contrast is "devoted to the constitution and defended the rights guarantied by that sacred instrument." The Whigs have pandered to the extreme abolitionists the Liberty Party crew and seek to "absorb the friends and followers of James G. Birney and Wendall sic Phillips into the bosom of the whig party which is now under the leadership of Wm. H. Seward who will be the controlling spirit of the government should General Scott be elected." Birney Phillips and Seward were of course anathema to southerners and indeed to many northern Whigs and Democrats who did not wish the slavery issue to threaten the maintenance of the Union. FIRST EDITION. LCP 11125. Not in Sabin Miles Eberstadt Decker. unknown books
1848Best.-Nr. 19816Washington: Published Under Authority of the National and Jackson Democratic Association Committee 1848. 16pp untrimmed and folded blank top edge chipped. Toned. Good or so. Stewart a Whig had charged that Cass the Democrats' 1848 presidential nominee had picked the taxpayers' pockets while Governor of the Michigan Territory and Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Stewart issued a pamphlet that included Cass's expense accounts and other documents to back up his charges. Defending Cass this pamphlet accuses the Whigs and Stewart of "making up a gross statement against General Cass and suppressing the truth in regard to the accounts of General Taylor." Taylor say the Democrats is guilty of even greater malfeasance than that which has been falsely charged against Cass. Sabin 91633n. 111 Eberstadt 113. Published Under Authority of the National and Jackson Democratic Association Committee unknown books
1848Best.-Nr. 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
1848Best.-Nr. 40827Washington: Gideon 1848. 8pp caption title as issued. Disbound and lightly foxed. Good. Letters from Whigs Caleb Smith of Indiana and Schenck of Ohio tell their fellows that they better vote the Whigs' 1848 presidential ticket despite their dismay at the nomination of Zachary Taylor. The alternative is the Democrat Cass whose election will "lead to large acquisitions of territory upon our Southern borders no restriction upon the extension of slavery.this mad career of conquest. The election of Gen. Cass will secure the complete triumph of the most ultra views of Slavery propagandists." FIRST EDITION. Wise & Cronin Taylor 27. Not in Sabin Miles Eberstadt Decker LCP. Gideon unknown books
1848Best.-Nr. 19495np 1848. 16pp caption title as issued. Tanned several leaves trimmed closely at the fore-edge with slight loss. Good. A rare 1848 campaign pamphlet attacking Taylor and sketching the biography of Lewis Cass a man "of the highest order of talent" who has filled "almost every grade of office from the lowest to the highest and most responsible in the service of his country. From the first start in life he has been a Democrat. He received the first office he ever held from that great apostle of Democracy Thomas Jefferson in 1807." Taylor by contrast is a "spectacle" as a candidate-- lacking any political opinions and without even a political party to which he can claim loyalty. A General in the Mexican War he nevertheless allowed himself to be the candidate of the Whigs "who have sympathised with the public enemy who have traitorously given him 'aid and comfort' who have voted for the disgrace of their country in Congress by alleging that the war was unconstitutionally commenced." FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin Miles Eberstadt Decker. Not located in NUC or on OCLC. unknown books
1848Best.-Nr. 20489Washington 1848. 8pp printed in double columns caption title as issued. Disbound else Very Good. A scarce 1848 campaign pamphlet attacking Whig presidential candidate Zachary Taylor who "has no political principles and is perfectly ignorant upon political matters." On the burning issue of the Wilmot Proviso-- whether slavery ought to exist in the territories acquired from Mexico-- Taylor is a hypocrite: "At the North he is represented to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso." But "at the South his advocates contend that he is opposed.because he is a southern man and a slaveholder and therefore identified with southern interests." A Louisiana slaveholder Taylor surprised everyone after his election when he supported immediate statehood for California with its anti-slavery Constitution. Wise & Cronin 44 Taylor. Not in Sabin Miles Eberstadt Decker LCP. unknown books
1848Best.-Nr. 6729Washington: Towers 1848. 8pp disbound else Very Good with caption title as issued. A Whig attack on Michigan Senator Cass the Democrats' 1848 presidential nominee. His "love of the people's money" is evidenced by his expense vouchers-- printed here-- as Secretary of Indian Affairs. The failure of the Seminole campaign resulted from his "incompetency" as Secretary of War. He is "an old Federalist who denies his ancestry." The pamphlet attacks his 'Nicholson Letter' in which for the first time the concept of Popular Sovereignty-- permitting Territorial inhabitants rather than Congress to determine whether slavery should exist there-- was articulated. Sabin 11350. Streeter MI 612. Towers unknown books
1848Best.-Nr. 38209Boston: Eastburn's Press 1848. 4 pp. Folded bifolium. Very Good. A scarce Whig 1848 campaign pamphlet prints Taylor's letters assuring wary northerners that this Louisiana planter and slaveowner could be trusted with the Nation's destiny. Taylor says he is "not engaged to lay violent hands indiscriminately upon public officers good or bad who may differ in opinion with me. I am not expected to force Congress by the coercion of the veto to pass laws to suit me or pass none. I would not be a partisan President." He says "I am a Whig but not an ultra Whig." Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker Miles. OCLC records four locations under several accession numbers as of April 2022. Eastburn's Press unknown books
1844Best.-Nr. 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
1840Best.-Nr. 15487Albany N.Y. 1840. pp 89-96 large folded folio sheet printed in triple columns. Caption title as issued scattered light foxing Very Good. An Extra denominated No. 12 from the Rough-Hewer a Democratic Party campaign publication published from February - December The Address supports the Democrats' presidential candidate and New York's favorite son Martin Van Buren against the Whig candidate William Henry Harrison. The Whigs descendants of the aristocratic Federalists are "constantly struggling to create distinctions in society by legislation for the special benefit of individuals and classes thereby throwing into their hands a power and influence strong enough to control the suffrages of the people or set them at defiance." Resolutions and discussion of the issues all presented with great passion ensue. FIRST EDITION. AI 40-5891 5. Lomazow 392. Not in Mott. unknown books
1840Best.-Nr. 34201Washington: Blair & Rives 1840. Folio 8 3/4" x 12". 416pp. Nos. 1-27 of Volume VI; May 16 1840 - October 26 1840 plus No. 27 the final issue recording detailed election results from January 1841. Boards detached endpapers filled with local political tickets. Scattered foxing light wear Good. A detailed contemporary report of the 1840 presidential campaign from the perspective of this Democratic publication. It begins with the Democrats' National Convention in Baltimore with the speeches proceedings and Address to the People. A campaign biography of Van Buren the Democrats' candidate and Blair & Rives's as well is included plus discussion of all the issues: slavery abolition internal improvements tariff banks. The Whigs are repeatedly referred to as the 'Federal' Party in order to drive home that the Whigs were descended from the discredited Hartford Convention Federalists. The Whig candidate William Henry Harrison is "still shrouded in mystery. Blair & Rives unknown books
1840Best.-Nr. 14460Washington: Gideon 1840. Caption title as issued disbound. 16pp. Scattered foxing pinhole knocks out one letter. Good. A very scarce Whig campaign document producing official messages and correspondence exposing the militaristic tendencies of the incumbent Martin Van Buren. Joel Poinsett was Secretary of War at the time. Another issue is entitled 'Plan of the Standing Army.' Not in AI Sabin Eberstadt Decker. 624 NUC 0263455 1. Gideon unknown books
1840Best.-Nr. 28873Albany: Rough-Hewer Extra 1840. 8pp folio Extra of this short-lived New York Democratic periodical. Untrimmed and uncut generously margined. A couple of short margin fold splits light foxing. Good or so. A bombastic essay charging that the Whig Party is like the wolf in sheep's clothing in reality the old Hartford Convention Federalists a bunch of Anglophiles in disguise. Their policies and their conspiratorial "scheme" with England are "dangerous to the purity of legislation hostile to the genius of a free government and directly at war with our constitution." Not in Sabin or American Imprints. OCLC 37969403 3- NYHS LCP OH Hist. Soc. as of 5/12. Rough-Hewer Extra unknown books
1832Best.-Nr. 19544Albany: Printed by Packard and Van Benthuysen 1832. 24pp. Disbound light fox and wear Good. Jackson and his first Vice President John C. Calhoun had become enemies in the Nullification Crisis their polar opposition bringing them into conflict. New York's Martin Van Buren leader of Northern Democrats and a skilled political manipulator was the easy choice. These Proceedings record the Delegates by State the balloting and its result and the "Address of the Republican Delegates of the State of New-York" defending the President's record tracing Jacksonians' roots to Thomas Jefferson and warmly endorsing their Favorite Son. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 93603. AI 13888 1. Not in Eberstadt or Decker. Printed by Packard and Van Benthuysen unknown books
1828Best.-Nr. 36773Providence: Office of the Republican Herald 1828. 28pp stitched untrimmed lightly worn Very Good. American Imprints but not Bartlett attributes authorship to Wilkins Updike. This is a high-pitched attack on the alleged profligacy of the Adams administration and a call for the election of Andrew Jackson. "A suffering people cry for reform" the author says. "Did one of you ever dream that the funds of this Government were expended in the purchase of BILLIARD TABLES BILLIARD BALLS CHESS BOARDS AND CHESS MEN and other toys to gratify the gambling propensities of the cabinet" A Jackson presidency will bring back "the days of good old President Jefferson." FIRST EDITION. AI 36986 7. Bartlett 8. Office of the Republican Herald unknown books
