Item #6045 THE VAN BUREN PLATFORM, OR FACTS FOR THE PRESENT SUPPORTERS OF MARTIN VAN BUREN. Martin Van Buren.

THE VAN BUREN PLATFORM, OR FACTS FOR THE PRESENT SUPPORTERS OF MARTIN VAN BUREN.

[Washington: 1848]. 8pp, caption title (as issued). Folded folio leaf, untrimmed. Rubberstamp at blank upper margin. Good+.

Supposedly angered at his Party's failure to nominate him as its candidate in 1844, Van Buren bolted to the new Free Soil Party in 1848, a precursor of the Republicans. This document exposes Van Buren's doughface past: Until now, "no man had been more obsequious to the South, or more subservient to slavery, than Martin Van Buren." The record is reviewed, in exquisite detail, to show Van Buren's support of slavery. His convenient turnabout is mere hypocrisy.
Free Soil material is significant because it presages the dissolution of the Democratic Party, the rise of the Republicans, and the crisis of the Union.
FIRST EDITION. Wise & Cronin 113. Not in Dumond or Work. Item #6045

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