8pp, disbound, caption title [as issued]. Printed in double columns, scattered foxing. Good+. This rare 1856 presidential campaign pamphlet prints the Platform of the first Republican National Convention and urges New York Democrats, angered by the National Democratic Party's pro-slavery stance in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory, to join the Republican Party, formed only two years earlier. The transformation of Van Buren Democrats, from anti-slavery free soilers to Republicans, is thus accomplished. They repudiate their old Party and endorse the Fremont-Dayton ticket. Not in Sabin, Eberstadt, Decker, Miles, Dumond, Blockson, LCP, or, evidently, NUC [despite a diligent search].

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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.

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Caption title [as issued]. 15, [1] pp. Stitched, scattered foxing. Good+. Ketchum supports former President Millard Fillmore, candidate of the American [Know-Nothing] Party, for the presidency. He advocates the Nativist agenda, fearful of the potential power of immigrants who are filling up the vast National Territories. "I have no objection that they should come, but I ask that when they come, they shall remain long enough to understand theoretically and practically the institutions and the habits of the people of this country, before they exercise a control through the ballot-box." For when Roman Catholics "come here to alter and disturb our time-honored customs, to exclude our Bible from our schools, to separate their children from ours in the schools, and attack our American usages which have come through all time, it is time for us to take care of ourselves." On the slavery issue he assures his northern audience that Fillmore, like other northern Whigs, opposes the extension of slavery into the Territories. Fillmore's vice presidential candidate, Donelson of Tennessee, is, of course, another story. "Mr. Fillmore himself is in the very vigor and prime of life, and I don't think that there is any chance of the Vice- President being President for the next four years." The final page advertises the 'Campaign Express,' a pro-Fillmore periodical; and lists the American Party's 'Campaign Documents' for sale. Sabin 37644. OCLC 11064466 [8].

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Tall 8vo. 16pp, untrimmed and pinned, caption title [as issued], edges darkened, Good+ or Very 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" in this process. FIRST EDITION. LCP 3837. 112 Eberstadt 150(d). Not in Sabin, Decker, Miles.

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16pp, double columns, disbound and lightly worn. Good+. "Old Line Whigs," descendants of the Henry Clay-Daniel Webster Party favoring a national government active in commercial affairs, had nowhere obvious to go in 1856: their own Party had been destroyed by the Sectional Crisis; the new Republican Party was, in their view, a threat to the beloved Union; and the anti-Catholic bias of the emerging American Party was disgusting to many of them. This pamphlet urges them to vote for Buchanan: his Democratic Party is the only nationwide political organization remaining: disunion will result from its defeat. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 59432n. LCP 7286.

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Folded, old binder holes in blank inner margin. Light wear and tan. Good+ to Very Good. A wild anti-Fremont attack, charging the Republicans with violating "the most solemn treaties of the United States with the Indians" and 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." Scarce. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 68197. 483 NUC 0088090 [5].

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30pp, disbound. Lightly soiled, light scattered foxing. A few pages clipped at bottom edge with loss of final line at affected pages. Very Good. This campaign document charges Republicans with stirring up "wild exciitement" in Kansas for their own political benefit. The Democrats refuse "to undertake to determine why the God of nature made the African inferior to the white man; or why He permitted England to fasten the institution of slavery upon the colonies against their repeated and earnest remonstrances. Nor can we tell what Heaven in its wisdom may intend to work out of the relations of master and slave..." This item supports Pierce Administration policies in the Kansas-Nebraska struggle, supports popular sovereignty, and urges the decisive defeat of the Republicans. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 35271.

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Caption title [as issued], 16pp. Disbound and light uniform tanning, Very Good. After the Whig Party collapsed under the weight of the sectional crisis, keen competition existed 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. And, political expediency has caused him to trim his anti-slavery views; he is now a reliable ally of the South. Although the standard bibliographies have failed to include this pamphlet, it appears in OCLC under several accession numbers. FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin, Eberstadt, Decker, Miles.

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16pp, stitched, caption title [as issued]. Small institutional rubberstamp, else Very Good. This campaign document shows the drift of northern Know-Nothings, formerly Whigs, to the new Republican Party. These conservative Union stalwarts cannot stomach the American Party candidate Fillmore's association "with the supporters of aggression and outrage in Kansas, and persisting in such votes, after it had been irrefragably proven that the elections in Kansas had been carried by armed bodies of men from Missouri." Moreover, despite wild charges, it has never been satisfactorily shown that Fremont is a Roman Catholic [a sure disqualifier in mid-19th century America]. FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin or Eberstadt.

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16pp, disbound, printed in double columns. Last leaf browned, else Very Good. This is one of several variant titles-- the first two clauses appear identical in all versions-- charging Fremont, the first Republican presidential candidate, with financial improprieties while disbursing officer in California in the 1840's. This one also accuses him of exaggerating his military achievements, which were minimal at best. Cowan 222. Rocq 16684. LCP 1239.

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16pp, dbd, some loosening, soil, and spotting. Good+. The Whig Party died before the 1856 elections, killed by the Sectional Crisis. Where would the Party faithful go? To Fillmore, the former Whig Vice President, now running on the American [Know-Nothing] Ticket? To Buchanan, the candidate of the Democrats, the only remaining national Party? Or to Fremont, the first standard-bearer of the new Republican Party? These Maryland Whigs warn their constituents to stay away from the Black Republicans: "the most active and influential of their leaders, from perverted judgment or inflamed passion, or what is worse, from deliberate calculation, have determined to build up a sectional party, reckless of its peril to the Union, once so justly valued, but now estimated far less at the North than at the South." Lovers of the Union-- like the great Whig Henry Clay, were he alive today-- must vote for Buchanan, Fillmore being a mere throwaway vote and, to boot, an advocate of unseemly religious bigotry. FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin, Eberstadt, Miles.

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