LITERARY CADET AND RHODE ISLAND STATESMAN. UPWARDS OF 4000 COPIES OF THIS PAPER ARE CIRCULATED WEEKLY.
Providence: Wednesday Morning, October 8, 1828. Elephant folio sheet, folded to [4] pp, each 15-1/4" x 22-1/2." Old folds, toned, several small holes and a fold split affecting a few letters. Good+
Issued only a month before the presidential election, this paper leaves no doubt about where it stands. The Jackson-Calhoun ticket is the "BLOOD AND CARNAGE TICKET," condemning Jackson's duel with Dickinson, his attempt "to assassinate" Senator Benton, charging that he "he sheltered and caressed the infamous BURR at his house in 1806, and noting as well his tyranny in New Orleans and his butchery in Florida. Calhoun is "the head of the attempted rebellion in the South, in 1828" [a reference to Nullification].
The paper endorses John Quincy Adams for a second term, his first having been "singularly prosperous." Item #36782
Price: $150.00