PRINCIPLES AND OBJECTS OF THE AMERICAN PARTY.
New York: 1855. 36pp, disbound, lacks wrappers. Light dustsoiling of outer leaves, title page partly loosened. Good+.
The pamphlet is the creation of the American [Know-Nothing] Party's Twelfth Council, Fifteenth Ward, City of New York. This is the credo of the American Party, at its high-water mark: "America should be governed only by Americans."
The next year former President Millard Fillmore would be the Party's candidate for president, in a three-way battle with Buchanan and Fremont, the first Republican presidential candidate. The Know-Nothings feared immigrants, who were "ignorant of our institutions and laws, often ignorant of our language, necessarily in all cases unimbued with the traditional and native sentiment which gives life and permanence to our institutions."
OCLC records a number of institutional locations. Item #26394
Price: $225.00