TRACT FOR AMERICANS. FILLMORE'S POLITICAL HISTORY AND POSITION. GEORGE LAW AND CHAUNCY SHAFFER'S REASONS FOR REPUDIATING FILLMORE AND DONELSON, AND THE ACTION OF THE KNOW-NOTHING STATE CONVENTION AT SYRACUSE ON THE RESOLUTIONS CENSURING BROOKS'S ASSAULT ON SENATOR SUMNER, &C. SPEECH OF HON. E.B. MORGAN, OF N.Y., IN U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AUG. 4, 1856.
[New York: New York Tribune, 1856]. Caption title [as issued], 16pp. Disbound and wear. Good+.
After the Whig Party collapsed under the weight of the Sectional Crisis, keen competition emerged among Democrats, Republicans, and Know-Nothings [Americans] for the support of its erstwhile members. This pamphlet urges anti-slavery Whigs to vote for the new Republican Party, which fielded its first presidential candidate this year.
A close examination of Fillmore's record, particularly as Zachary Taylor's vice president, reveals that he was no friend of that Whig President. Political expediency has caused him to trim his anti-slavery views: he is now a reliable ally of the South. Although standard bibliographies have failed to include this pamphlet, it appears in OCLC under several accession numbers.
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