Campaign literature -- United States -- 19th century

"A surrender to the rebels advocated--a disgraceful and pusillanimous peace demanded--the federal government shamefully vilified, and not a word said against the crime of treason and rebellion. "FAU Libraries' copy copy with untrimmed edges and unopened pages. Summary: Extracts from speeches at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Aug. 29-30, 1864, designed to put the speakers and the Copperhead theme of an "honorable peace" in a bad light. The Copperheads were a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates. Republicans started calling antiwar Democrats "copperheads", likening them to the poisonous snake. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Copperheads nominally favored the Union and strongly opposed the war, for which they blamed the abolitionists, and they demanded immediate peace and resisted draft laws. They wanted President Lincoln and the Republicans ousted from power, seeing the president as a tyrant who was destroying American republican values with his despotic and arbitrary actions.

Series: Campaign document (Democratic Party (U.S.)) ; no. 9. Alternate title: Speech of Honorable Robert C. Winthrop, at the great ratification meeting in Union Square. Notes: Caption title. "Extract from a speech by the Hon. Henry Clay in the Senate of the United States on the subject of abolition petitions, February 7, 1839"--Pages 7-8. "Watchwords for patriots. Mottoes for the campaign, selected from General McClellan's writings"--Page 8. "Sold at 13 Park Row, New York, and at all Democratic newspaper offices, at $1 per 1,000 pages"--Top of page [1].Text in two columns.

Series: Campaign document (Democratic Party (U.S.)) ; no. 13. Alternate title: Perils of the nation, usurpations of the administration in Maryland and Tennessee. Notes: Caption title. "Speech of A. Oakey Hall, Eaq., New-Haven, Conn., October 20th, 1864": pages 3-8. Published also as Campaign document no. 26.

Series: Campaign document (Democratic Party (U.S.)) ; no. 21. Notes: Caption title. At head of title: "Sold at 13 Park Row, New York, and at all Democratic Newspaper Offices, at $1 per 1,000 pages." Text printed in two columns.

"Nothing has been done" : speech of Honorable Henry C. Deming. Caption title. A Republican Party campaign speech. FAU Libraries' copy imperfect: pages loose.

Speech of Major-General Carl Schurz. Caption title. "Printed by the Union Congressional Committee." Imprint from colophon, page 16. Two columns to the page. FAU libraries' copy side stitched with cord.

Speech of George May Powell. Delivered before the Lincoln and Johnson Club, Washington, D.C., Sept. 18, 1864. Two columns to the page. FAU Libraries' copy copy with untrimmed edges and unopened pages.

Speech of the Honorable Lyman Tremain, before the Union state convention. Notes: Caption title. Last page advertisements. FAU Libraries' copy edges trimmed to 22 cm.

Governor Seymour's speech, at the convention held at Albany, January 31, 1861. Speech of Honorable Horatio Seymour, before the Democratic State Convention, at Albany. Notes: Cover title. Two columns to the page. On final page: "Anti-abolition Tracts" advertisement, that includes such publications as 'Free Negroism' by the Copperhead publisher Van Evrie, Horton & Co. As the Democratic candidate for the governorship of New York against J.S. Wadsworth, H. Seymour claims to support the Civil War but blasts Republican incompetence and the rumored Emancipation Proclamation, calling for a policy of conciliation towards the Southern states, a rejection of the Abolitionist cause.

Speech of the Honorable James Brooks. Notes: Cover title."When a party in power violates the Constitution and disregard state-rights, plain men read pamphlets." "Read--discuss--diffuse." Pages also numbered 29-44 at foot, through-numbering for the Papers. Summary: An attack on the Lincoln administration.