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America In Search Of Itself - the Making Of the President 1956 - 1960 - Easton Press - Full Leather

by Theodore H White

The Arrogance Of Power the Secret World Of Richard Nixon

by Anthony Summers

The Jubilee Of the Constitution

by John Quincy Adams

The Lincoln Papers

by David C Mearns

Resolutions Adopted By the Antimasonic Members Of the Legislature Of Massachusetts, and Other Citizens Of Boston and The Vicinity, Opposed To the Nomination Of Martin Van Buren and Richard M Johnson For President and Vice President Of Us At a Meeting

by Anti-Masonic Party

Order Of Exercises At the Eulogy On the Late President, William Henry Harrison Monday, April 19, 1841 In Charlestown

American Freemen! Read! Read! Look To the Within Account Of the British Free Trade Association! and Say, Whether British Gold! Shall Buy What British Valor Could Not Conquer! Tariff Men Of the Country! Compare the Opinions Of Henry Clay, and The Whig Part

by Election Of 1872

SEVEN "COFFIN" BROADSIDES HONORING THE MEMORY OF MILITIA MEN WHOM GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON UNJUSTLY AND ARBITRARILY EXECUTED DURING THE 1815 FLORIDA CREEK WAR

Letter Signed To Horatio Seymour, May 1868, Urging the Selection Of General Winfield Scott Hancock As the Democratic Party's Candidate For President

by Robert J Walker

Message From the President Of the United States, To Both Houses Of Congress, At the Commencement Of the Second Session Of the Eighteenth Congress

by James Monroe

Letter From Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character Of John Adams, Esq President Of the United States the Second Edition

by Alexander Hamilton

Oration Delivered Before the Washington Benevolent Society Of Pennsylvania, At Their First Anniversary Meeting, February 22d, 1813

by Charles W, Esq Hare

The Buffalo Platform Mr Van Buren's Future Political Creed- State Nomination Of Mr Dix For Governor, &C- Whig and Democratic Parties- Whig Platform, and Messrs Botts and Greeley's Exposition Of the Same- Messrs Clay and Calhoun's Democracy Written and

Impeachment Of the President Resolutions Of the Legislature Of West Virginia, Relative To the March 12, 1868

by Andrew Johnson

Speech Ofof South Carolina, On the Bill To Enable the People Of Kansas Territory To Form a Constitution and State Government, Preparatory To Their Admission Into the Union, Etc Delivered In the United States Senate, June 12, 1856

by Andrew P Butler

Running For President the Candidates and Their Images 1789-1896 Volume 1

by Arthur M , Jr Schlesinger

Letter Signed, From "Washington City Dec 29th 1866" When President, To "My Dear Young Friend | I Most Cheerfully Comply With Your Request Sincerely Yours, Andrew Johnson

by Andrew Johnson

The Temperance Republican Vol I, No 1 October, 1886

An Exposition Of the Late General Election, In New-York By a Citizen Of Pennsylvania

Remarks On Article Ix, In the Eighty-Fourth Number Of the North American Review

The Same Old Coon Henry Clay

Garfield and Arthur Campaign Song Book Published By the Republican Congressional Committee, Washington, Dc

by Election Of 1872

An Address Of Henry Clay To the Public

by Henry Clay

Proceedings Of the Democratic County Convention, Held In the City Of Lancaster, Nov 13, 1850

by Democratic Party Of Lancaster County

Grover Cleveland Ribbon, Portrait On Silk With Fringed Bottom and Color Portrait Of American Flag

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The American Presidency, an Interpretation

by Laski, Harold J

THE OLD ROUGH AND READY ALMANAC. 1849

by [Taylor, Zachary]

Philadelphia and New York: Turner and Fisher, Publishers, 1848. Stitched in original printed and illustrated wrappers. [36] pp. Engraving frontis of Captain Drum's victory at the Battle of Contreras. Rear wrapper illustration of "The Skirmish Between a Mexican Guerilla Party and the United States Dragoons, at the National Bridge." Other illustrations profusely scattered throughout. Some blank margin chipping, untrimmed. Else Very Good. A scarce almanac, popular Mexican War history, and laudatory... Read more about this item

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SGD 896.16

ADDRESS OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, TO THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA

by Democratic State Central Committee of Pennsylvania

[Harrisburg?, 1856. 14, [2 blanks] pp. Bound into modern plain wrappers, light foxing. Good+. This pamphlet was issued during the 1856 presidential campaign, urging election of Pennsylvania's favorite son, James Buchanan. Warning that the new Republican Party threatens the Union, the Committee argues, "Let a President of the United States be elected exclusively by the votes of one section, and on a principle of avowed hostility to the men, the measures, the domestic institutions, the feelings and the... Read more about this item

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SGD 344.68

THE POLITICAL SITUATION

by Prentiss, Geo. L

New York: Printed by F. Somers, 1866. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 39pp + final blank. Shallow corner chips, Good+. Reprinted from the American Presbyterian Review for 1866, this pamphlet is a window on Reconstruction. Prentiss was intelligent and insightful, and brother of the renowned Mississippi lawyer Sargent Smith Prentiss. Before the War "the champions of slavery not only gained complete possession of political power and opinion at the South, but they succeeded in spreading their... Read more about this item

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SGD 482.54

PROCEEDINGS OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA, HELD AT COLUMBIA, 5TH AND 6TH OF MAY, 1856, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING DELEGATES TO THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION, TO MEET IN CINCINNATI IN JUNE

by South Carolina

Columbia: R.W. Gibbes, 1856. Original printed wrappers [light wear, ink note on front wrap]. Stitched, 29pp. Scattered light to moderate foxing, blank inner corners clipped at the top. Good+. A rare record of the proceedings of this Convention, which voted to support President Franklin Pierce, the quintessential 'Northern Man with Southern Principles,' a type beloved by 1850's Democrats, for a second term. Pierce's stand in favor of the Kansas-Nebraska Act should be rewarded. For the sake of "our... Read more about this item

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SGD 827.22

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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SGD 41.36

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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SGD 896.16

NATIONAL CONVENTION OF UNION SOLDIERS AND SAILORS HELD AT COOPER INSTITUTE, NEW YORK CITY, JULY 4, 1868:- WITH THE ADDRESS OF GEN. THOMAS EWING JR. PREPARED PURSUANT TO A RESOLUTION OF THE CONVENTION - BY COL. JAMES A. O'BEIRNE SECY NAT. EX. COMMITTEE

by National Convention of Union Soldiers and Sailors

[New York, 1868. [1], 28, [6] manuscript leaves, 12-1/4" x 8",plus a 6-page manuscript telegram addressed to Thomas Ewing, plus a 16-page printed pamphlet [some blue crayon lines over text, but still legible]. Bound with a bit of rope; curled, outer leaves loose and chipped without loss of text. New York, 4 and 6 July 1868. Except as noted, Very Good. This 1868 Convention, whose proceedings were never published, was held at the time of the Democrats' New York Convention. These minutes are thus a... Read more about this item

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SGD 4,825.45

A SIGNED AND WITNESSED WAGER BETWEEN ROBERT H. WATKINS AND JACOB K. SWOOPE ON THE OUTCOME OF THE 1840 PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST BETWEEN INCUMBENT PRESIDENT MARTIN VAN BUREN AND WHIG CHALLENGER WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

by [Election of 1840]

[Courtland, Lawrence Cty., Alabama, 1840. Single page, 7-3/4" x 12-3/4." Entirely in ink manuscript. Dated June 20, 1840, and signed at the end by Watkins and Swoope, with Jno. J. McMahon as witness. Inner edge is irregular. Closed tear [no loss] repaired expertly at blank bottom margin. Very Good. This documents records the terms of a wager on the outcome of the 1840 presidential election. "Watkins betts Swoope Ten Bales Cotton of Best quality weighing Five Hundred Pounds Each, on each State in the... Read more about this item

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SGD 1,034.02

AN IMPARTIAL AND TRUE HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF MAJOR-GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON

by [Jackson, Andrew]

[np, 1828. 36pp, disbound and lightly worn. Else Very Good, with caption title as issued. A scarce and bitter attack on Jackson's career as a duelist and street fighter. After a cursory review of his youth and early manhood, the anonymous author examines in detail the 1806 Dickinson duel, resulting from a quarrel "on the race ground; the scene of General Jackson's favorite pursuit and pleasure." Contemporary accounts record the death of Dickinson, who had shot first, and Jackson's "deliberate aim thus... Read more about this item

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SGD 482.54

Jefferson and His Time - 6 Volume Set

by Dumas Malone

Six volume hardcover set as pictured. Set consists of V1 Jefferson The Virginian, V2 Jefferson And The Rights Of Man, V3 Jefferson And The Ordeal Of Liberty, V4 Jefferson The President First Term 1801-1805, V5 Jefferson The President Second Term 1805-1809, and V6 The Sage Of Monticello. A comprehensive biography of Jefferson, each volume with extensive bibliography and index. Bindings firm in all. Blue cloth boards with gold stamping on spine and front show minimal shelf wear. Volume 5 has 2 small spots... Read more about this item

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SGD 74.45

JEFFERSON PAPERS. MEMORIAL OF THOMAS JEFFERSON RANDOLPH, OF VIRGINIA, IN REGARD TO THE PURCHASE AND PUBLICATION BY CONGRESS OF THE MANUSCRIPTS OF MR. JEFFERSON. 30th Cong., 1st Sess. HMD7

by Jefferson, Thomas

1847. 3pp, disbound, light wear and fox. Very Good. Randolph was the devisee of Jefferson's manuscript papers. Lacking the funds to publish them himself, he offers them here to the Congress "for a consideration they may deem adequate." The Joint Committee on the Library recommends purchasing them, and presents a draft statute to do so for $25,000.

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SGD 68.94

WHAT GENUINE DEMOCRATS THINK OF THE REBELLION

by [Republican Party]

[New York: National Union Executive Committee, 1864. Broadsheet, 9" x 11.5". Caption title [as issued], printed in double columns. Light spotting, mild wear, Good+. An 1864 campaign broadsheet, attacking the Democratic Party for refusing to condemn "those leaders of the old Democratic party who plotted the overthrow of the Government and the disruption of the Union." Instead, at their Chicago Convention "they denounced the war against the Rebellion." The opinions of War Democrats who support the... Read more about this item

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SGD 1,378.70

FIRST REFLECTIONS ON READING THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS, OF DECEMBER 7, 1830... PUBLISHED ORIGINALLY IN THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER

by Hambden

Washington, 1831. 15pp, uncut and untrimmed, partly loosened. Tanned, some dampstaining to top corner, light scattered foxing. Good. The anonymous Hambden lends qualified support to President Jackson's assertion that Congress may constitutionally levy a protective tariff in order to foster the development of domestic industry. He scolds the South's devotion to free trade, "which can no more exist as a general principle than universal and perpetual peace." He counsels that we "adhere to the Union as... Read more about this item

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SGD 137.87

SKETCH OF THE ADDRESS OF HON. R.H. GILLET, OF WASHINGTON, D.C., AT THE MASS MEETING OF THE CITIZENS OF LEBANON, NEW YORK

by Gillet, Ransom H

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 ripe in years, and his character is without a blemish." He is eminently qualified by experience for the job. Fillmore always opposes democratic reforms, like... Read more about this item

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SGD 344.68

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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SGD 4,825.45

LETTER OF HON. WILEY P. HARRIS, TO COLONEL J.F.H. CLAIBORNE, OF MISSISSIPPI, ON FOREIGN IMMIGRATION, THE NATURALIZATION LAWS, AND THE SECRET ORDER OF KNOW-NOTHINGS

by Harris, Wiley P

[Washington: Office of the Congressional Globe, 1855. 8pp, disbound, caption title [as issued], printed in double columns. Some loosening and light foxing, else Very Good. The Mississippi Congressman makes his position crystal clear on the increasingly powerful American, or Know-Nothing Party, whose anti-Catholic, anti-immigration message attracted support from Whigs and Democrats. It would field its own presidential candidate, former president Millard Fillmore, in the upcoming presidential election.... Read more about this item

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SGD 482.54

THE GREAT MATCH AT BALTIMORE, BETWEEN THE "ILLINOIS BANTAM," AND THE "OLD COCK" OF THE WHITE HOUSE

by [Democratic Party in 1860]

New York: Currier & Ives, 1860. Illustrated broadside, lithograph on wove paper. 17-1/2" x 13-1/4". Light toning at blank margins from prior matting, else Fine. The 1860 presidential nominating competition split the Democratic Party into Northern and Southern branches, paving the way for the election of Abraham Lincoln. Southern Democrats refused to support Stephen A. Douglas, the nominee at the Baltimore Convention. His Popular Sovereignty doctrine had rendered him anathema to Southerners and had... Read more about this item

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SGD 4,136.10

THE CORRECTOR, OR, INDEPENDENT AMERICAN

by [New York Politics]

New York, 1816. Number 1. 45, [3 blanks] pp, disbound. Lightly tanned, Good+ or so. [offered with] THE CORRECTOR, OR, INDEPENDENT AMERICAN. NO. 2. New York: 1816. 50pp, stitched, untrimmed. Original printed wrappers [lightly worn and soiled]. Scattered spotting. Very Good. This scarce Democratic publication ended after the 1817 issue, its third. The first issue opens with an essay on the Fourth of July, noting, "It is not only astonishing, but really humiliating, to observe with what veneration a... Read more about this item

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SGD 517.01

TWO SPEECHES, DELIVERED IN THE NEW-YORK STATE CONVENTION, SEPTEMBER, 1824, WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION

by [Clinton, De Witt]

New York: G.F. Hopkins, 1824. v, [6]-88 pp. Light margin spotting and occasional light inner margin wear, occasional tanning. Good+ or so, in modern cloth [bookplate on front pastedown, bit of lower spine discoloration]. Light numerical rubberstamp in blank margin of page [iii]. Political "cabals," "King Caucus," and Clinton's other enemies sought to deny him the gubernatorial nomination in 1824, with arguments and speeches "in language of pointed reprehension." Here, "the friends of Mr. Clinton"... Read more about this item

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SGD 482.54

THE WHIG-ABOLITIONIST ATTACK! WHIGS AND ABOLITIONISTS AGAINST GENERAL PIERCE

by Election of 1852

[np., 1852. Disbound with some loosening, 8pp. Printed in double columns. Caption title [as issued]. Light tan and wear, Good+. An attempt to tar General Winfield Scott, the Whigs' 1852 presidential candidate, with abolitionism; and to promote Franklin Pierce, who by contrast is "devoted to the constitution, and defended the rights guarantied by that sacred instrument." The Whigs have pandered to the extreme abolitionists, the Liberty Party crew, and seek to "absorb the friends and followers of James... Read more about this item

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SGD 344.68

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS

by Van Buren, Martin

[Washington, 1837. Elephant folio broadside printed in seven columns. 18-1/2" x 24-1/2." Light foxing, light wear, Good+. Dated and signed in type at the end: "Washington 4th September, 1837. M. Van Buren." A rare broadside printing of Van Buren's Address, devoted entirely to the catastrophic Panic of 1837, which he calls "the revulsion through which we have just passed." Issues of bank failures, specie payments, the question of a National Bank and other political reforms are reviewed in the first six... Read more about this item

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SGD 1,034.02

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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SGD 620.42

THE CRISIS: ON THE ORIGIN AND CONSEQUENCES OF OUR POLITICAL DISSENSIONS. TO WHICH IS ANNEXED, THE LATE TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN. BY A CITIZEN OF VERMONT

by Vermont, A Citizen of

Albany: Hosford, 1815. Disbound. 96pp, lightly toned and foxed, a couple of closed tears [no loss]. Good+ or so. Fearful of "the spirit of party," which "for twenty-five years has raged in this country," the author battles these "seeds of dissolution of our republic." The problem is "this hopeless and ruinous war," which has brought with it a "formidable array of evils." The cause of the current distress is the Virginia Dynasty, which has captured the presidency and "persists in proscribing and... Read more about this item

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SGD 517.01

NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY AND STATES' - RIGHTS COMPARED; WITH THE FATAL CONSEQUENCES OF BEING DISREGARDED

by Union, A Friend of the

[Washington, 1861. Folio sheet, folded to 7-3/4" x 9-5/8." [4] pp bifolium. Printed on first page only. Old folds, Very Good. The seceding States have acted "in contravention of all Delegated Powers of National Sovereignty, and in total disregard of the explicit negations of the same to the States." Nevertheless the author, an anonymous 'Friend of the Union', urges the President to proclaim "an Amnesty to all the People and Citizens within the limits of said Rebel States, or elsewhere, conditioned... Read more about this item

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SGD 1,723.38

TORCH LIGHT. AN EXAMINATION OF THE ORIGIN, POLICY, AND PRINCIPLES OF THE OPPOSITION TO THE ADMINISTRATION, AND AN EXPOSITION OF THE OFFICIAL CONDUCT OF THOMAS H. BENTON, ONE OF THE SENATORS FROM MISSOURI

by [Curtius] [pseud.]

St. Louis: Printed at the Missouri Republican Office, 1826. 8vo. 71, [1 blank] pp. Gathered signatures, stitched as issued. Scattered, generally light foxing. Untrimmed. Good+ or so. Signed in type at the bottom of page 56, preceding the Appendix, 'Curtius.' Contemporary inscription at the head of the title page, "Secretary of the Treasury. Washington," suggesting ownership of Richard Rush, President J.Q. Adams's Secretary of the Treasury. Rush was Adams' 1828 vice presidential running mate. This is... Read more about this item