[Piece of Hickory, A]:

MILITARY DESPOTISM! ARBITRARY ARREST OF A JUDGE!!

New York: P.W. Derham, Printer and Stationer, 15 Nassau Street, [1864?]. Broadside, 12" x 18-1/2." Laid down on paper stock. Blank margins chipped, some dusting and light wear. Good+.

This scarce broadside, signed in type at the end by 'A Piece of Hickory,' minimizes Lincoln's alleged arbitrary arrests, and his suspension of the writ of habeas corpus: the great Democratic hero, Andrew Jackson, was far more lawless when he governed New Orleans after the War of 1812, arresting Louallier for merely criticizing him, and then arresting the judge who released him on a writ of habeas corpus. Jackson became the most influential leader of the Democratic Party since Jefferson. "Nine years after, this 'military despot,' who made the 'arbitrary arrest,' was elected President by the Democracy."
"Derham first appears in New York City directories in 1864. The original broadside is located in the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum, Lincoln Memorial Univ., Harrogate, Tennessee" [Neely, The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties 254 note 19. NY: Oxford U Press. 1991].
Sabin 48958. Not in LCP, Bartlett, Monaghan. OCLC 54148969 [2- Yale, Harvard], 33203442 [1- Brown], 478267635 [1- NYHS] as of December 2022. The Library of Congress also has a copy. Item #38982

Price: $1,750.00