Item #41579 IN VIEW OF THE IMPORTANT ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, AND IN VIEW OF THE GREAT NECESSITY THAT EVERY VOTER SHOULD BE SUPPLIED WITH A GOOD NEWSPAPER ADVOCATING SOUND NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES, THE UNDERSIGNED FEELS DESIROUS TO SECURE YOUR AID IN ENLARGING THE CIRCULATION OF THE "WEEKLY WASHINGTON UNION." THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AT THIS TIME OCCUPIES A PECULIAR POSITION. ASSAILED AT THE NORTH BY ABOLITIONISM AND AT THE SOUTH BY KNOW NOTHINGISM, THE DEMOCRACY STAND BOLDLY FORTH IN DEFENCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF ALL SECTIONS AND OF ALL MEN, DETERMINED TO FALL OR RISE GLORIOUSLY BATTLING IN BEHALF OF THE STATES AND THE DOCTRINES OF "CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY." THE WEEKLY UNION IS THE CHEAPEST POLITICAL PAPER IN THE UNITED STATES, BEING ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. I CONFIDENTLY ASK YOUR AID IN INCREASING ITS CIRCULATION. J. DANCY JONES. J. Glancy Jones.
IN VIEW OF THE IMPORTANT ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, AND IN VIEW OF THE GREAT NECESSITY THAT EVERY VOTER SHOULD BE SUPPLIED WITH A GOOD NEWSPAPER ADVOCATING SOUND NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES, THE UNDERSIGNED FEELS DESIROUS TO SECURE YOUR AID IN ENLARGING THE CIRCULATION OF THE "WEEKLY WASHINGTON UNION." THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AT THIS TIME OCCUPIES A PECULIAR POSITION. ASSAILED AT THE NORTH BY ABOLITIONISM AND AT THE SOUTH BY KNOW NOTHINGISM, THE DEMOCRACY STAND BOLDLY FORTH IN DEFENCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF ALL SECTIONS AND OF ALL MEN, DETERMINED TO FALL OR RISE GLORIOUSLY BATTLING IN BEHALF OF THE STATES AND THE DOCTRINES OF "CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY." THE WEEKLY UNION IS THE CHEAPEST POLITICAL PAPER IN THE UNITED STATES, BEING ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. I CONFIDENTLY ASK YOUR AID IN INCREASING ITS CIRCULATION. J. DANCY JONES.

IN VIEW OF THE IMPORTANT ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, AND IN VIEW OF THE GREAT NECESSITY THAT EVERY VOTER SHOULD BE SUPPLIED WITH A GOOD NEWSPAPER ADVOCATING SOUND NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES, THE UNDERSIGNED FEELS DESIROUS TO SECURE YOUR AID IN ENLARGING THE CIRCULATION OF THE "WEEKLY WASHINGTON UNION." THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AT THIS TIME OCCUPIES A PECULIAR POSITION. ASSAILED AT THE NORTH BY ABOLITIONISM AND AT THE SOUTH BY KNOW NOTHINGISM, THE DEMOCRACY STAND BOLDLY FORTH IN DEFENCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF ALL SECTIONS AND OF ALL MEN, DETERMINED TO FALL OR RISE GLORIOUSLY BATTLING IN BEHALF OF THE STATES AND THE DOCTRINES OF "CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY." THE WEEKLY UNION IS THE CHEAPEST POLITICAL PAPER IN THE UNITED STATES, BEING ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. I CONFIDENTLY ASK YOUR AID IN INCREASING ITS CIRCULATION. J. DANCY JONES.

Washington: 1856 [February 15]. Typescript broadside notice, signed in type at the end, "J. Glancy Jones," dated at upper right "WASHINGTON, February 15, 1856." Arithmetic pencil scribblings in blank margins and blank verso. Old folds with light wear but text unaffected; blank margins chipped and upper right corner blank margin spotted. Good plus.

Jones, a newspaper editor and Democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania, portrays his newspaper and his political views as a moderating force between the extremes of abolitionism and Know Nothings. Wikipedia quotes his biographer who has quite a different assessment:
"Leading Northern Democrats such as Jones and Buchanan were not romantic defenders of working men, as some scholars have claimed; nor were they moderates striving to save the Union from extreme sectionalism. Rather, they were proslavery activists whose willful actions had direct and disastrous effects on the nation. Their policies enraged free-state voters and caused the fatal split in the Democratic Party that resulted in Lincoln's election, which, in turn, triggered disunion. They were culpable and responsible -- an act that should not be forgotten or overlooked." Item #41579

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