THE GOLDEN AGE. CAMPAIGN TRACTS. THE PHILADELPHIA FAILURE, REVIEW OF GRANT'S RENOMINATION. BY THEODORE TILTON. REPRINTED FROM "THE GOLDEN AGE" OF JUNE 8, 1872."

Published by The Golden Age, New York, 1872

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4-1/2" x 6-1/2". 10, [1 blank], [1-publisher's notice] pp. Stitched. Original printed title wrappers. Light toning and wrapper spotting, Very Good. Pencil ownership inscription of "L.H. Osborn" on rear cover. Tilton-- journalist, reformer, abolitionist, cuckolded by Henry Ward Beecher-- founded "The Golden Age," a New York political and literary weekly. From time to time he would reprint essays from The Golden Age, such as this one, for the 1872 presidential race. Tilton issued his Tract after the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia in June 1872. Tilton opposed Grant's renomination, favoring instead Liberal Republican Horace Greeley. It seems odd that a passionate anti-slavery reformer would oppose Grant's policy of military Reconstruction, but Tilton does so. Continuance of Grant policies is a re-enactment of the Civil War. "If in time of peace the military power is to reign supreme over the civil, then farewell republicanism. How quenched is the ancient spirit of Saxon liberty! We believe that the anti-slavery battle has been fought out. Slavery is abolished; and the Thirteenth Amendment makes its re-enactment impossible. . Legally the negro stands exactly where the white man does. Socially whatever stigma rests upon him is far more oppressive in the north than in the south." OCLC records 14 locations, some of which may be facsimiles.…

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THE GOLDEN AGE. CAMPAIGN TRACTS. THE PHILADELPHIA FAILURE, REVIEW OF GRANT'S RENOMINATION. BY THEODORE TILTON. REPRINTED FROM "THE GOLDEN AGE" OF JUNE 8, 1872."
Author
Tilton, Theodore
Publisher
The Golden Age, New York
Publication year
1872
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