1862 · Boston
by [People's Party]
Boston: J.H. Eastburn's Press, 1862. 8pp, untrimmed, two folded leaves. Light wear, about Very Good. Signed at the end in type by fifteen disaffected Massachusetts Republicans, beginning with George T. Davis of Greenfield; Theodore H. Sweetser of Lowell; William C. Plunkett of South Adams; and Linus Child of Boston.
This pamphlet, from the People's Party Convention at Springfield in late October 1862, seeks the support of Republicans who oppose the President's preliminary emancipation proclamation. The signers favor the sentiment, "The Union as it was and the Constitution as it is." They oppose the abolitionist schemes of Senator Sumner and (truncated)
This pamphlet, from the People's Party Convention at Springfield in late October 1862, seeks the support of Republicans who oppose the President's preliminary emancipation proclamation. The signers favor the sentiment, "The Union as it was and the Constitution as it is." They oppose the abolitionist schemes of Senator Sumner and (truncated)