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[Boston, 1846. 8pp, uncut and untrimmed folio leaf printed in two columns per page. Chipped unevenly at bottom edge of outer leaves with no text affected. Very Good. The Liberty Party, the first to campaign nationally for emancipation of the slaves and the precursor to the Free Soil and Republican Parties, opposes the Mexican War and President Polk's deceitful and unilateral acts that initiated it. The Democratic Party has caused the War "by its shameless servility to the Slave Power." Widespread disgust with both political parties-- Democrats and Whigs-- renders this an auspicious time for the Liberty Party's success. "Let us resolve not to leave our children the fearful inheritance of slavery, aggravated as it must be if our present enterprise fails." FIRST EDITION. OCLC 64756308 [3- AAS, NYHS, Cornell], 1036222464 [1- Harvard] as of April 2023. Not in Sabin, Eberstadt, Decker, Dumond, Work, LCP, Blockson.
ADDRESS, TO THE FREE ELECTORS OF THE SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. FELLOW CITIZENS:- .. by Liberty Party - 1843
by Liberty Party
ADDRESS, TO THE FREE ELECTORS OF THE SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. FELLOW CITIZENS:- ..
by Liberty Party
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Northampton [MA], 1843. Broadside, 9-1/2" x 22". Printed in two columns, separated by a rule, and dated and signed in type by members of the District Liberty Committee: J.P. Williston, B.J. Johnson, Amzi Allen, Moses, Erastus Bridgman. Old folds, crimps affecting a bit of text on several lines. Good+.
This is a powerful Liberty Party attack on the two major political parties and their anticipated candidates for the upcoming presidential election. It is apparently unrecorded. "The Democratic party is sold to the South." Calhoun, Van Buren, Buchanan are all pro-slavery men. The Whig Party's "champion," Henry Clay, is "the owner and holder of SIXTY SLAVES, a man who has been a duelist from early life, and who still clings to this barbarous and murderous custom in his old age." Indeed, whichever of these two Parties is in power doesn't matter: "We have all along been really the tools of the South, and have done their bidding."
The Liberty Party puts forth its candidate: Lucius Boltwood, "the uncompromising friend of impartial liberty."
Not in Sabin, American Imprints, LCP, Dumond. Not located on OCLC, or the online sites of AAS, Harvard, MA Hist. Soc., Brown, Library of Congress as of April 2021.
This is a powerful Liberty Party attack on the two major political parties and their anticipated candidates for the upcoming presidential election. It is apparently unrecorded. "The Democratic party is sold to the South." Calhoun, Van Buren, Buchanan are all pro-slavery men. The Whig Party's "champion," Henry Clay, is "the owner and holder of SIXTY SLAVES, a man who has been a duelist from early life, and who still clings to this barbarous and murderous custom in his old age." Indeed, whichever of these two Parties is in power doesn't matter: "We have all along been really the tools of the South, and have done their bidding."
The Liberty Party puts forth its candidate: Lucius Boltwood, "the uncompromising friend of impartial liberty."
Not in Sabin, American Imprints, LCP, Dumond. Not located on OCLC, or the online sites of AAS, Harvard, MA Hist. Soc., Brown, Library of Congress as of April 2021.
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ADDRESS OF THE LIBERTY STATE COMMITTEE. TO THE VOTING FRIENDS OF FREEDOM AND EMANCIPATION IN MASSACHUSETTS. FELLOW CITIZENS..
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