AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE AGAINST THE BULLY AND CONVICT POWER. TO THE DEMOCRACY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
[New York? 1853]. 16pp, caption title [as issued]. Disbound, bit of loosening. Else Very Good.
This rare pamphlet illustrates the hatred between the two factions of New York State's Democratic Party: Hunkers and Barn-Burners or, as they were also known, Hards and Softs. Hunkers supported the National Democratic Party. Barn-Burners were anti-slavery Democrats, alienated by the Party's southern domination,and support of slavery and the Fugitive Slave Act.
At the 1853 State Convention in Syracuse the conflict erupted into violence. This pamphlet presents the Hunker side of the story, their victimization by "an organized body of desperate men" who are "notorious in the city of New-York, their acts of disorder, the outrages in which they habitually share, and of which several of them stand convicted." This "bully power, with brazen front and foul brutality," created a "theatre of violence and outrage" in Syracuse. OCLC locates copies only at the New York Public Library and Harvard.
FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin, Eberstadt, Decker, LCP. OCLC 22046734 [2] [as of May 2020. Item #25248
Price: $500.00