THE VAST IMPORTANCE OF THE APPROACHING PRESIDENTIAL AND CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION, AS AFFECTING THE VERY EXISTENCE OF POPULAR GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY, CANNOT BE OVERESTIMATED. . .
Trenton: September 8, 1864. Broadside, 8-1/2" x 11-1/4." Addressed in ink, at head of text, to "Hon. Bowers Esq." Dated in typescript, "Trenton, September 8, 1864." Signed in type at the end by W.S. Johnson, S.S. Stryker Jr., and I.D. James, members of the Committee on Campaign Documents. Some chipping at upper and lower blank edges. Light wear, Good+ or so.
The broadside lists 36 campaign pamphlets supporting the re-election of Abraham Lincoln and denouncing the "Copperhead Democrats."
The stakes in the election could not be higher: "Hitherto, parties have been divided upon questions of policy; but in the present contest, the issue is boldly made up, between the maintenance of our Constitutional Government on the one hand, and on the other, of its base and cowardly surrender to more than half vanquished treason, armed in bloody array for its overthrow, and the erection on its ruins of a despotism more odious than the world has tolerated in modern times."
Not in Felcone. Not located on OCLC as of February 2025. Item #40121
Price: $450.00