1852 · [np
by [Palfrey, John]
[np, 1852. Broadside, 9-5/8" x 12-7/8." Printed in two columns, separated by a rule, beneath caption title. Old folds, light toning, mounting remnants at upper edge of blank verso. Very Good.
This 1852 broadside reflects the Democratic Party's fear that northern Democrats, alienated by their Party's domination by the Slave Power, would shift allegiances to antislavery Whigs or the antislavery Parties that sprouted during the 1840s. It focuses its ire on former Congressman John Palfrey, the Free Soil candidate and former Whig, who seeks to regain the seat he had lost in 1848. The District required that a candidate secure a majority vote for election; the seat remained vacant for two Congresses. It was currently held by the Whig Benjamin Thompson.
The broadside urges Democrats to vote for "a candidate of their own": Richard Frothingham, Jr., "whose fitness for the office is greater than the Free Soil candidate." Palfrey is "a mere sectionalist, who seeks a place in Congress in order to stir up strife between the North and the South, by laboring to set aside the compromises happily effected in 1850." Palfrey,despite his Free Soil label, is "a Whig in principle," who "despises" Democrats.
Not in Sabin, LCP. Not located on OCLC, or online sites of AAS, MA Hist. Soc., Library of Congress, Boston Ath., as of June 2024. (Inventory #: 40120)
This 1852 broadside reflects the Democratic Party's fear that northern Democrats, alienated by their Party's domination by the Slave Power, would shift allegiances to antislavery Whigs or the antislavery Parties that sprouted during the 1840s. It focuses its ire on former Congressman John Palfrey, the Free Soil candidate and former Whig, who seeks to regain the seat he had lost in 1848. The District required that a candidate secure a majority vote for election; the seat remained vacant for two Congresses. It was currently held by the Whig Benjamin Thompson.
The broadside urges Democrats to vote for "a candidate of their own": Richard Frothingham, Jr., "whose fitness for the office is greater than the Free Soil candidate." Palfrey is "a mere sectionalist, who seeks a place in Congress in order to stir up strife between the North and the South, by laboring to set aside the compromises happily effected in 1850." Palfrey,despite his Free Soil label, is "a Whig in principle," who "despises" Democrats.
Not in Sabin, LCP. Not located on OCLC, or online sites of AAS, MA Hist. Soc., Library of Congress, Boston Ath., as of June 2024. (Inventory #: 40120)