[Washington, D.C. Republican Association; Buell & Blanchard, Printers, 1856]. 8pp. Caption title [as issued], printed in double columns. Folded [split along spine fold], untrimmed [light edgewear], partly uncut. Light toning. Good+. The contest for Speaker of the House at the opening of the Thirty-Fourth Congress illustrated the deeply divisive issue..... More
[Harrisburg: 1854]. Octavo sheet, folded to four pages, each page filled with Bigler's writing. "(Private)" written at the upper margin of the first page. Very Good with light foxing. Democratic Governor Bigler aligned himself with his southern colleagues on issues of Slavery, Kansas, and opposition to the nascent Free Soil..... More
[Philadelphia? 1856]. 16pp. Caption title, as issued. Pinned, untrimmed, lightly worn. Good+. Bigler had just completed his term as Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania, and had begun his service as United States Senator. His July 4 oration doubles as a presidential campaign message. "Whatever others may do, as for me and..... More
[Washington: Buell & Blanchard, 1856]. 7, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, clean, Very Good. Blair's Letter is a significant step in the Democratic Party's split into Northern and Southern branches. Writing from his Maryland home at Silver Spring in December 1855, the venerable stalwart of President Jackson's Kitchen Cabinet denounces his..... More
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Washington: Cornelius Wendell, Printer, 1857. 35th Cong., 1st Sess. SED11. 775pp, disbound else Very Good. At midstream of the Buchanan administration, his disastrous Kansas policy alienates his Democratic support in the North; even pro-slavery northerners find it difficult to stomach the election frauds and violence necessary to sustain the Lecompton..... More
[Washington: 1856]. 24 pp. Disbound with caption title, as issued. Good+. Sabin 11349n. More
Baltimore: Printed by John Murphy & Co., 1860. 16pp, untrimmed, stitched [loosened], scattered foxing, some wear. About Good+. As the sectional crisis heated up, Murphy's Baltimore press began a little cottage industry in pro-slavery pamphlet material, printing speeches of Clingman, Jefferson Davis, and other Southern politicians. "We shall have to..... More
Washington: R.A. Waters, 1856. Disbound. 39, [1 blank], 263-304 pp [as issued]. Foxed with some age-toning, Good+. The Democratic ticket's massive defense of the opening of the Kansas-Nebraska Territory to slavery by repeal of the Missouri Compromise. This campaign pamphlet argues that the "anti-war disunionists" during the War of 1812..... More
Philadelphia: Printed for the Author by C. Sherman & Son, 1856. 46pp. Original printed front wrapper, roughly disbound and loosening, Good+. The author, whom Sabin identifies as Colwell, warns North and South about the consequences of their antagonism. "The rabid fanatics of the North have goaded the South until they..... More
New York: John Trow, 1854. 22, [2 blanks] pp. Broken stitching, gathered signatures. Old duplicate rubberstamp, light dusting. Good+. Cooley's speech demonstrates the disruption of the Democratic Party caused by President Pierce's Kansas policy, Stephen A. Douglas's attempt to repeal the 1820 Missouri Compromise, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Cooley, a...... More
Washington: 1929. Typed letter to "My dear Nelson," single page and signed "Charles Curtis." Fine. With an original news agency glossy photo of Curtis standing with Herbert Hoover after they had been nominated as the Republican standard-bearers in 1928 Curtis, "an enrolled member of the Kaw Nation," is the nation's..... More
[Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., 1860]. 16pp, disbound, Good+. Caption title [as issued]. Printed in double columns. The pamphlet was "issued by the National Democratic Executive Committee." Davis's speech, replying to Douglas, distills the Southern Rights position and illustrates the fatal split that destroyed the Democratic Party in 1860. Interspersed..... More
Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., 1860. 15, [1 blank] pp, disbound. Spotted, about Good+. Davis's resolutions, in support of which he speaks, guaranteed a split in the National Democratic Party and the loss of the presidency in Indeed, some believed that precisely that had been Davis's purpose, as part of..... More
[Baltimore: Murphy, 1860]. 23, [1 blank] pp. Stitched, Near Fine. Caption title [as issued]. Owner's name inscribed at blank upper margin. A pro-Douglas pamphlet for the 1860 election. The list of Murphy's publications at the end includes several other 1860 campaign pamphlets. This one argues that the entire Democratic Party..... More
[Indianapolis? 1856]. 16pp, disbound. Scattered foxing. Good+. A Democratic presidential campaign pamphlet. It charges that during the brief time that Fremont, "the Black Republican candidate for the Presidency," was a U.S. Senator his votes-- opposing the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia-- showed him "to be a most..... More
[np: 1856?]. Folded, old binder holes in blank inner margin. 16pp. Light wear and tan. Good+ to Very Good. A wild anti-Fremont attack, charging that Republicans have violated "the most solemn treaties of the United States with the Indians," and have sought "to stop the wheels of government, stir up..... More
[np: 1856]. 16pp, caption title [as issued]. Disbound, first leaf toned. Good+. This wild anti-Fremont attack charges the Republicans with violating "the most solemn treaties of the United States with the Indians," attempting "to stop the wheels of government, stir up strife and discord in the country, and produce anarchy..... More
[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..... More
Washington: 1856. 30, [2 blank] pp. Disbound, else Very Good. This campaign document charges Republicans with stirring up "wild excitement" in Kansas. Democrats refuse "to undertake to determine why the God of nature made the African inferior to the white man; or why He permitted England to fasten the institution..... More
Boston: Damrell & Moore, 1856. 16pp, stitched, light toning and wear, else Very Good. A perceptive review of the South's predicament: the North's growing strength is producing a Free-State majority in the House of Representatives. The South's only hope is to maintain equality in the Senate by creating more slave..... More
Washington: Printed at the Union Office, 1856. 13, [3 blank] pp., [page 13 misnumbered as page 12]. Disbound, minor wear, Very Good. This scarce campaign pamphlet reviews the qualifications of the three 1856 presidential candidates-- Buchanan the Democrat, Fillmore the Know-Nothing, Fremont the Republican-- and pronounces for Buchanan, who "is..... More
New York: 1856. Original printed wrappers. iv, 164 pp. Stitched, front wrapper detached and chipped, several leaves have small corner chips. Good+. FIRST EDITION. Howes G353. LCP 4308. More
[Iowa City? 1856]. 14pp, disbound. Lightly tanned, minor dustsoiling to outer leaves, small chip to top corner of title page. Occasional minor fading of text. Good+. Free Soil men of all political stripes-- Whigs, Republicans, Anti-Nebraska Democrats-- elected Grimes, an opponent of slavery, Iowa's third Governor in 1854. he "made..... More
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7 3/4" x 9 3/4", folded. 1-1/3 pages, plus integral address leaf stamped 'FREE' and postmarked from Burlington, May 15. On light blue paper; small blank margin tear on last leaf from opening the Letter. Docketed as having been "Answered May 22/54." Very Good plus. Free Soil men of all..... More
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[np: 1856]. 8pp, stitched, light wear and folds. Caption title [as issued]. Very Good. Inscribed in ink on title page, 'With respects of B.F. Hallett.' During the 1850s Hallett-- in his early years a Jacksonian reformer and advocate of Indian rights-- was "a 'Doughface' steering by Southern charts" [DAB]. This..... More