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Typescript broadside notice, signed in type at the end, "J. Glancy Jones," dated at upper right "WASHINGTON, February 15, 1856." Arithmetic pencil scribblings in blank margins and blank verso. Old folds with light wear but text unaffected; blank margins chipped and upper right corner blank margin spotted. Good plus. Jones, a newspaper editor and Democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania, portrays his newspaper and his political views as a moderating force between the extremes of abolitionism and Know Nothings. Wikipedia quotes his biographer who has quite a different assessment: "Leading Northern Democrats such as Jones and Buchanan were not romantic defenders of working men, as some scholars have claimed; nor were they moderates striving to save the Union from extreme sectionalism. Rather, they were proslavery activists whose willful actions had direct and disastrous effects on the nation. Their policies enraged free-state voters and caused the fatal split in the Democratic Party that resulted in Lincoln's election, which, in turn, triggered disunion. They were culpable and responsible -- an act that should not be forgotten or overlooked.".

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. The Democratic Party Platform, as adopted in St. Louis on June 7, 1888. Grover Cleveland was running for re-election, against the Republican Benjamin Harrison: Cleveland won the popular vote, but lost in the Electoral College. (Cleveland would win a rematch, in 1892.) This pamphlet puts forth the ideals of the Democratic Party at the time, including: childhood education; the rights of organized labor; the separation of church and state; the equality of all citizens without regard to race or color; the reform of unjust tax laws that unduly enrich the few; the end of the sale of public lands to benefit corporations rather than settlers; the reigning in of tariffs; the admission of Washington, Montana, Dakota and New Mexico into the Union; and supporting the blessings of self-government and civil and religious liberty for all nations. The platform reaffirms the rights of native and naturalized citizens, but takes a hard line against the importation of "unfit" foreign labor. One sheet, folded to create a 12 page pamphlet, 3 3/8" x 5 3/4". Foxed, and fragile; about very good. Only two copies located in OCLC, at NYPL and Pittsburgh State University.