8pp, dbd and loosened, caption title [as issued]. Printed in double columns. Good+. A demonstration that pro-slavery Democrats have obstructed efforts to distribute America's public lands, which "embrace one thousand millions of acres," as homesteads for pioneers. For, as this pamphlet explains, "Slavery cannot exist at the same time with a system of small freeholds." FIRST EDITION.

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10pp, folded, some loosening and light blank edge chipping. Caption title [as issued]. Good+. The National Democratic Party's 1860 Convention met first at Charleston, and adjourned with a decision to meet again at Baltimore. The Georgia delegation split into two factions: the first, led by William Lowndes Yancey of Alabama, decided to form a new political party based exclusively on Southern Rights, especially the National Government's obligation to protect slavery and slaveholders in all the Territories. The second faction wished to continue working within the National Democratic Party. A State Convention at Milledgeville was called in an effort to resolve the dispute. After the Yancey faction lost, it issued this "appeal from the Milledgeville verdict." This pamphlet reviews the issues involved in the conflict, and presents the resolutions and platforms of the two factions. II Renne 609. OCLC 668994047 [1-U GA] [as of 7/12].

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8pp. Disbound. Original printed wrappers. Minor spotting of front wrapper and first page, else quite clean. Very Good. OCLC 42866733 [1- NY Public].

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Folio broadsheet, 14" x 17", pre-printed form, lined with columns, printed in blue and red inks, completed in manuscript. Three columns for "Name of Persons voted for," "Name of Office," "Whole Number of Votes cast for said Persons." Old folds [a few short closed tears along folds, no text loss]. Very Good. This election return is a microscopic Meredosia view of the 1860 presidential election, the main competition being between Lincoln and Douglas, both sons of Illinois. It lists names of 84 persons running for office [most of them presidential electors], as well as votes for and against a Convention, and for and against township organization. The recto compiles votes for the Presidential Electors; the verso contains votes for individual offices such as Congressman, Governor, Secretary of the State, etc., Some of the more prominent names are Richard Yates, who won the election for Governor; Congressman John McClernand; John McAuley Palmer, a Lincoln presidential elector here and future Governor of Illinois from 1869-73; William Pitt Kellogg, also a Lincoln elector and Reconstruction Governor of Louisiana from1873-7. The other Lincoln electors are also listed, as are the electors pledged to Stephen A. Douglas. In Meredosia, the Lincoln electors lost to the Douglas electors by a vote of 200 to 120. Thompson Campbell, a Breckinridge elector, got zero votes.

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16pp. Disbound, lightly age toned. Very Good.  The Democrats' tumultuous convention of 1860-- protracted over two months, convening in Charleston and [after a Southern walkout] recessing and reconvening in Baltimore-- presaged the destruction of the National Democratic Party, the only remaining national political institution. Breckinridge and the Southern Democrats, calling themselves the 'National' Democratic Party, here mount an all-out attack on Stephen A. Douglas, the candidate of the Northern Democrats. Douglas's only difference with Lincoln is "in making insidious, instead of open, war upon the South." Douglas's Popular Sovereignty doctrine and his opposition to Slave Codes to protect slaveowners in the Territories disregard the Dred Scott decision.  The text of the pamphlet was also printed in Washington, without an imprint. Bartlett 41. Sabin 414. Not in Eberstadt, Decker, Blockson, LCP.

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