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The American Presidency, an Interpretation

The American Presidency, an Interpretation

by Harold J Laski

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THE GREAT TUMBLE BUG OF MISSOURI, BENT-ON ROLLING HIS BALL

THE GREAT TUMBLE BUG OF MISSOURI, BENT-ON ROLLING HIS BALL

by [Benton, Thomas Hart]

New York: H.R. Robinson, 52 Courtlandt St., 1837. Oblong folio broadside, 17-1/2" x 14." Hand-colored lithograph. Short closed tear and a few light fox spots at blank margins. Mounted to a thin board. Very Good. At upper margin: "N. Tom O' Logical Studies." "Tumblebugs roll manure into balls as large or larger than themselves. Female adults lay eggs in the balls and bury them to supply food for the larvae" [Garrett, The Dirt Doctor, on line article on the Tumble Bug] "A caricature of Missouri senator... Read more about this item
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€2,379.75
FIRST IN WAR FIRST IN PEACE AND FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN. PANORAMA OF WASHINGTON

FIRST IN WAR FIRST IN PEACE AND FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN. PANORAMA OF WASHINGTON

by [Washington, George]

New York: Chas. Magnus, 1861. Folio broadside, 9" x 32", hand colored lithograph, with its original decorated envelope. "Twenty-nine small vignettes of building in and around Washington, D.C. At top is a bust length portrait of George Washington, and at bottom is a larger vignette of the Capitol Building" [AAS description]. Several fox spots outside the image; retention of the original color-illustrated envelope is most unusual [several tears, lightly worn]. The expected horizontal folds, Very Good.... Read more about this item
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€1,665.82
AN APPEAL TO THE DEMOCRATS OF LUZERNE COUNTY

AN APPEAL TO THE DEMOCRATS OF LUZERNE COUNTY

by Democratic Party in Pennsylvania

Luzerne County, 1847. Folio sheet printed on pale blue paper, folded to [4] pp. 8" x 10". [1], [3 blanks] pp, the last page addressed, with postal cancel and wax seal remnant, to four people in Plainsville PA [which is part of Luzerne County]: Samuel Saylor, Peter Winter, John Black, William Lobar. Their names are also written in ink on page [1]. Light wear, chip to final blank, Very Good. This evidently unrecorded Circular is a war cry mobilizing the Democratic troops for the upcoming State elections,... Read more about this item
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€428.35
THE ADDRESS OF SOUTHERN DELEGATES IN CONGRESS, TO THEIR CONSTITUENTS

THE ADDRESS OF SOUTHERN DELEGATES IN CONGRESS, TO THEIR CONSTITUENTS

by [Southern Rights]

[Washington, 1849. 15, [1 blank] pp. Disbound and lightly foxed, Good+. An early attempt, after the close of the Mexican War and just before Zachary Taylor's inauguration, to organize the South with a single pro-slavery voice. Drafted initially by John C. Calhoun, the Address was deemed by some Southern congressman "too drastic" [Potter] and modified accordingly. As finally issued, it is an articulate, dignified assertion of the South's complaint that the North had breached the original constitutional... Read more about this item
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€333.16
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANTI-JACKSON CONVENTION, HELD AT THE CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND: WITH THEIR ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA: (ACCOMPANIED BY DOCUMENTS.)

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANTI-JACKSON CONVENTION, HELD AT THE CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND: WITH THEIR ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA: (ACCOMPANIED BY DOCUMENTS.)

by Election of 1828

Richmond: Printed by Samuel Shepherd & Co., 1828. 38, [2 blanks] pp. Stitched, untrimmed, partly uncut. Browned and lightly to moderately foxed. Good+, in its unsophisticated state. This Virginia Convention of more than 200 delegates, listed by County, "feared the most pernicious consequences from the election of General Jackson, and we have come to consult about the means of averting this calamity from our country." Although "many of you strongly disapprove some of the leading measures of the present... Read more about this item
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CIRCULAR ADDRESS OF JAMES CLARK, TO HIS CONSTITUENTS. TO THE VOTERS OF THE THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY, CONSISTING OF THE COUNTIES OF FAYETTE, WOODFORD, AND CLARK. FELLOW CITIZENS:..

CIRCULAR ADDRESS OF JAMES CLARK, TO HIS CONSTITUENTS. TO THE VOTERS OF THE THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY, CONSISTING OF THE COUNTIES OF FAYETTE, WOODFORD, AND CLARK. FELLOW CITIZENS:..

by Clark, James

[np, 1831. 42, [2 blanks] pp. Caption title [as issued]. Untrimmed, broken stitching, light wear, else Very Good. Clark was an anti-Jackson Kentucky Congressman and a prominent figure in Kentucky politics before and after his congressional service from 1825-1831. This pamphlet, his swan song as a Congressman, denounces the Jackson Administration for extravagance, blatant patronage, corruption, efforts to control the press and create a "Government Press," and "hideous...systematic attempts to blacken... Read more about this item
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€333.16
LITHOGRAPH : JOHN C. FREMONT REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY/. ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS IN THE YEAR 1856 BY W. SCHAUS, IN THE CLERKS OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHN. DIST. OF NEW-YORK. PHOTOGR. BY S. ROOT. PRINTED BY L NAGEL. [Signed in typescript C.G. CREHEN]

LITHOGRAPH : JOHN C. FREMONT REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY/. ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS IN THE YEAR 1856 BY W. SCHAUS, IN THE CLERKS OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHN. DIST. OF NEW-YORK. PHOTOGR. BY S. ROOT. PRINTED BY L NAGEL. [Signed in typescript C.G. CREHEN]

by Fremont, John C

New York, 1856. 12" x 15" portrait on thin tissue paper, mounted to 14" x 18" paper backing. Half length portrait of John C. Fremont wearing a dark colored suit and tie. He has a full mustache and beard, his torso facing forward, head angled to the right. The copyright and publishing information is printed directly beneath the portrait on the thin paper, while the caption of "John C. Fremont/ Republican Candidate for the Presidency" is printed in typescript further down on the backing. Some fading and... Read more about this item
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€809.12
OLD ZACK'S QUICK STEP. ARRANGED FROM THE POPULAR MELODY OF ROSA LEE

OLD ZACK'S QUICK STEP. ARRANGED FROM THE POPULAR MELODY OF ROSA LEE

by White, Edward L

Boston [MA]: Published by Oliver Ditson, 115 Washington Street, 1848. 10" x 13". 2pp, folded. Caption title [as issued]. Disbound, split at fold with leaves detached. Minor dustsoiling, light foxing. Good or so. OCLC 35175734 [5].
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€28.56
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. THESE ARE IN THE NAME OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WILL AND REQUIRE YOU, FORTHWITH, IN MANNER AS THE LAW DIRECTS FOR CALLING TOWN-MEETINGS, TO CAUSE THE FREEHOLDERS AND OTHER INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF SHERBURNE DULY QUALIFIED TO VOTE FOR REPRESENTATIVES TO THE GENERAL COURT OF THIS COMMONWEALTH, TO ASSEMBLE ON THURSDAY, THE TWENTY-NINTH DAY OF JANUARY CURRENT, TO GIVE THEIR VOTES FOR A REPRESENTATIVE, WHO SHALL BE AN INHABITANT OF THE DISTRICT OF MIDDLESEX TO REPRESENT THE SAID DISTRICT IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. .

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. THESE ARE IN THE NAME OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WILL AND REQUIRE YOU, FORTHWITH, IN MANNER AS THE LAW DIRECTS FOR CALLING TOWN-MEETINGS, TO CAUSE THE FREEHOLDERS AND OTHER INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF SHERBURNE DULY QUALIFIED TO VOTE FOR REPRESENTATIVES TO THE GENERAL COURT OF THIS COMMONWEALTH, TO ASSEMBLE ON THURSDAY, THE TWENTY-NINTH DAY OF JANUARY CURRENT, TO GIVE THEIR VOTES FOR A REPRESENTATIVE, WHO SHALL BE AN INHABITANT OF THE DISTRICT OF MIDDLESEX TO REPRESENT THE SAID DISTRICT IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. .

by Hancock, John

[Boston: Adams & Nourse, 1789. Printed folio broadside, 9-1/4" x 12-5/8," the word "Sherburne" in manuscript. With the Seal of the Commonwealth. Signed in type by Governor Hancock ["John Hancock"], and in manuscript by John Avery Junior, Secretary and dated January 6, 1789. A Very Good, very scarce example of the Massachusetts procedures for electing representatives to the First Congress. Beneath Hancock's and Avery's signatures is a printed certification to the Selectmen of Sherburne in the District... Read more about this item
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In The Arena

In The Arena

by Richard Nixon

1990 leather bound hardcover as pictured. Binding is firm. Gray boards with gold stamping and raised bands on spine are clean and show only slight shelf wear. Patterned endpapers. Owner's bookplate inside front cover. Gilt edge of text block, ribbon marker. Text clean and unmarked. would be as new aside from slight shelf wear. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR
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€17.13
FREEDOM TO THE SLAVES. PROCLAIMED JANUARY 1ST. 1863, BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. "PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND UNTO ALL THE INHABITANTS THEREOF." LEV. XXV. 10

FREEDOM TO THE SLAVES. PROCLAIMED JANUARY 1ST. 1863, BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. "PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND UNTO ALL THE INHABITANTS THEREOF." LEV. XXV. 10

by [Lincoln, Abraham]

New York: Currier & Ives, 1865. Color print, 11-3/4" x 15-1/2" [by sight]. A black man, newly freed from slavery, kneels at Lincoln's feet, his shackles broken. He kisses Lincoln's hand. His wife and babies stand behind him. Lincoln's right arm is raised and pointing heavenward. Light uniform toning, but brightly colored. Two blank margin tears at lower right corner, one blank margin tear at upper left corner. Framed in wood [a few small dings] to overall size 16" x 20." Very Good. "This commemorative... Read more about this item
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€3,331.65
A VOICE FROM THE GRAVE OF JACKSON! LETTER FROM FRANCIS P. BLAIR, ESQ., TO A PUBLIC MEETING IN NEW YORK, HELD APRIL 29, 1856

A VOICE FROM THE GRAVE OF JACKSON! LETTER FROM FRANCIS P. BLAIR, ESQ., TO A PUBLIC MEETING IN NEW YORK, HELD APRIL 29, 1856

by Blair, Francis P

[Washington: Buell & Blanchard, 1856. 15, [1] pp. Disbound, else Very Good. Caption title [as issued]. The Meeting supported the new Republican Party, opposing slavery in the National Territories. Writing from his home in Silver Spring, Maryland, the venerable member of President Jackson's Kitchen Cabinet denounces his Democratic Party, which has "betrayed" its Jacksonian roots, and "the sinister designs of the nullifiers of the South. They are more formidable now than ever. They have an... Read more about this item
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€333.16
AN ADDRESS, TO THE PEOPLE OF MARYLAND, FROM THEIR DELEGATES IN THE LATE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION: MADE IN OBEDIENCE TO A RESOLUTION OF THAT BODY

AN ADDRESS, TO THE PEOPLE OF MARYLAND, FROM THEIR DELEGATES IN THE LATE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION: MADE IN OBEDIENCE TO A RESOLUTION OF THAT BODY

by Maryland

Baltimore: Sands & Neilson, 1832. 62pp. Disbound, else Very Good. The pamphlet is one of the most detailed campaign indictments of the first Jackson administration, "a career of political injustice." The accusers comprise Maryland's anti-Jackson Party, in the Whigs' [National Republicans'] first presidential campaign, offering a ticket of Henry Clay and John Sergeant. Jackson's "traits both of character, and mind" disqualify him for office; he has fostered the "evil tendency of party animosity;" he... Read more about this item
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MARRIAGE OF THE FREE SOIL AND LIBERTY PARTIES

MARRIAGE OF THE FREE SOIL AND LIBERTY PARTIES

by [Free Soil Party]

New York: Peter Smith [i.e., Nathaniel Currier], 1848. Lithograph on wove paper, folio broadside. 12-3/4" x 19." A few fox spots, Very Good. "A comic portrayal of the alliance between Free Soil Democrats and Whigs and the more extremist abolitionist Liberty Party interests during the election campaign of 1848. The factions joined to form the Free Soil party and nominated a presidential candidate in a convention at Buffalo in August" [Reilly]. Our broadside illustrates this critical political... Read more about this item
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€3,807.60
JAMES MONROE 5TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

JAMES MONROE 5TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

by [Currier, Nathaniel?]

[np, nd]. An undated [but contemporary], unattributed lithograph half length portrait of a seated James Monroe, with his hands on documents resting on a table in front of him. Draperies and portion of a column in the background. Very Good. The Currier firm produced a similar item but this one, like the copy at the National Museum of American History, was issued without an imprint. National Museum of American History Catalog No. 60.3189.
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€428.35
THE LIFE OF HARMAN BLENNERHASSET. COMPRISING AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE BURR EXPEDITION: AND CONTAINING MANY ADDITIONAL FACTS NOT HERETOFORE PUBLISHED

THE LIFE OF HARMAN BLENNERHASSET. COMPRISING AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE BURR EXPEDITION: AND CONTAINING MANY ADDITIONAL FACTS NOT HERETOFORE PUBLISHED

by Safford, William H

Chillicothe, O.: Ely, Allen & Looker, 1850. Original cloth [spine renewed] with gilt-decorated front cover. Frontis lithograph of 'Blennerhassets' Mansion'. 239pp. Very Good. "The first attempt by this early expert to unravel the [Burr-Wilkinson] conspiracy" [Jenkins]. Burr visited Blennerhasset in 1805, "and succeeded in involving him in his treasonable schemes" [Thomson]. FIRST EDITION. Howes S13. Tompkins 89. Thomson 1009. Jenkins, Full Howes 2209 [1853 ed.].
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€237.98
LEAVING THE WHITE HOUSE

LEAVING THE WHITE HOUSE

by [Lincoln, Abraham]

Boston: J.H. Bufford, 1864. Hand-colored lithograph card, 3-3/4" x 2-1/4." Mount remnants on blank verso; two small ink marks in blank margins. Very Good. An expression of someone's wishful thinking: a top-hatted Lincoln leaves the White House, his umbrella and satchel in hand. Bufford was an accomplished Boston lithographer. He "was the first employer and art teacher of Winslow Homer, but was also a prolific lithographer and competitor of Nathaniel Currier. Homer's fame as an artist and Currier's... Read more about this item
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€1,427.85
DIE PRASIDENTSCHAFT- WINFIELD SCOTT - FRANKLIN PIERCE..

DIE PRASIDENTSCHAFT- WINFIELD SCOTT - FRANKLIN PIERCE..

by [Scott, Winfield]

[Washington: Towers, 1852. 15, [1 blank] pp. Caption title [as issued]. Disbound, scattered light foxing. Good+ or so. This is the rare German-language printing of Miles 341, supporting General Winfield Scott, the last Whig presidential candidate. Franklin Pierce, his Democratic opponent, is found wanting on a number of issues. Miles notes that page 15 of this title adds a section entitled, 'Das Leben General Scott's in einer Nuttshale' ['General Scott's Life in a Nutshell']. FIRST EDITION. Miles... Read more about this item
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€333.16
THE OLD BULL DOG ON THE RIGHT TRACK

THE OLD BULL DOG ON THE RIGHT TRACK

by Currier & Ives

New York: Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St., 1864. Lithograph broadside, by sight 11-1/4" x 16." Matted, 18-1/4" x 23-1/4." Fine. "An election year cartoon measuring Democratic candidate McClellan's military failures against the recent successes of his successor, Ulysses S. Grant. At right Grant, portrayed as a bulldog wearing a collar labeled 'Lieut. General' and epaulets, sits pugnaciously on the tracks of the 'Weldon Railroad,' a Confederate supply route. He looks to Republican... Read more about this item
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€2,617.72
THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF HENRY CLAY. BROUGHT DOWN TO THE YEAR 1844

THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF HENRY CLAY. BROUGHT DOWN TO THE YEAR 1844

by [Sargent, Epes]

New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1844. 80pp, port. frontis. Stitched in original printed wrappers [light wear]. Very Good. Sargent's earlier 1842 biography of Clay is here enlarged and adapted to the rigors of the 1844 campaign. The frontis of Clay, noted by both Miles and Sabin, is present. Clay lost a bitter contest against the Democrat Polk. Sargent gives a detailed account of Clay's early family life as well as his political activities, leaving out some of his more flamboyant duels. In the campaign... Read more about this item
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€142.78
AN AU-GUST CONVENTION

AN AU-GUST CONVENTION

by [Johnson, Andrew]

Philadelphia: J.L. Magee, 1866. Oblong lithograph broadside, 12-1/4" x 17-1/4." Uniformly toned, with spotting in right margin and lower right corner with slight effect on text. A couple of margin chips, matting remnants on blank verso. Good+. President Andrew Johnson's supporters gathered in Philadelphia in August 1866 to support his program of immediate Reconstruction for the upcoming midterm elections, in opposition to Congressional Reconstruction. "Here the convention is portrayed as a gathering of... Read more about this item
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€904.30
A LETTER FROM GOVERNOR REEDER ON THE APPROACHING ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND THE CANDIDATES

A LETTER FROM GOVERNOR REEDER ON THE APPROACHING ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND THE CANDIDATES

by [Reeder, Andrew H.]

[New York: Young Men's Fremont and Dayton Central Union, 1856. 4pp, disbound, Good+. Reeder, former Governor of the Kansas Territory, having been appointed by President Pierce, soon became disgusted with voting frauds perpetrated by the proslavery faction there. He was thus estranged from the Pierce Administration; during 1856 he actively supported Fremont, the Republican Party's first presidential candidate. He says that "the border-ruffians of Missouri and their accomplices of the South have... Read more about this item
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JEFFY. SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. THAT FEED WONT DO

JEFFY. SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. THAT FEED WONT DO

by [Secession]

Cincinnati?: Ehrgott & Forbriger?, 1861. Lithograph broadside on linen, oblong 15" x 23." Light foxing and dusting, prominent vertical fold, strengthened on blank verso. Good+. In this rare political cartoon, a Fox named "Jeffy" pours a bucket of bonds into the trough of a pig, whose name is "Southern Confederacy." Suckling pigs, each with the name of a seceded State, feed at the trough. Outside the trough, a formidable U.S. bulldog prevents pigs labeled MD, KY, and MO from entering. The copyright was... Read more about this item
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CIRCULAR. TOWN OF NEWBURGH. AT A MEETING OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS OF THE TOWN OF NEWBURGH, HELD AT THE HOUSE OF WM. CLEARY, ON THE 24TH OF FEBRUARY, 1848, PURSUANT TO A CALL OF THE TOWN COMMITTEE..

CIRCULAR. TOWN OF NEWBURGH. AT A MEETING OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS OF THE TOWN OF NEWBURGH, HELD AT THE HOUSE OF WM. CLEARY, ON THE 24TH OF FEBRUARY, 1848, PURSUANT TO A CALL OF THE TOWN COMMITTEE..

by Democratic Republicans of the Town of Newburgh

[Newburgh, N.Y., 1848. Broadside, 6 1/2" x 12". Printed in two columns. Several old horizontal folds, Very Good. The Town Committee presents nine Resolutions expressing concern at the divisive effects of slavery. They deplore "the efforts that are being made to destroy the old land-marks of party destinction [sic] and to form new political divisions." David Wilmot of Pennsylvania had introduced a bill [The 'Wilmot Proviso'] prohibiting slavery in the Territories acquired in the War with Mexico. The... Read more about this item
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€618.74
SKETCHES OF THE LIVES OF FRANKLIN PIERCE AND WM. R. KING, CANDIDATES OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR THE PRESIDENCY AND VICE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES

SKETCHES OF THE LIVES OF FRANKLIN PIERCE AND WM. R. KING, CANDIDATES OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR THE PRESIDENCY AND VICE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES

by [Pierce, Franklin]

[np: National Democratic Executive Committee, 1852. 36pp, caption title [as issued]. Disbound, lightly tanned, else Very Good. Contemporary inscription, "From George H. Busby." Busby was a Democratic Congressman from Ohio when this campaign pamphlet was published. By 1852 the Democratic Party faced mounting difficulty in fielding Presidential candidates acceptable to both North and South. The formula was to find a 'Northern man with Southern principles'-- Lewis Cass in 1848, Franklin Pierce in 1852,... Read more about this item
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€261.77
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