THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. APPEAL OF THE NATIONAL UNION COMMITTEE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES [caption title].
Published by [New York: National Union Executive Committee], Sept. 9, 1864.
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A scarce National Union Party circular from the 1864 presidential election, responding to the infamous Democratic Nation Convention in Chicago and asserting that "every rebel organ in the rebel States or in foreign lands,-- every hater of Democratic Freedom and the Rights of Man, longs and labors for the overthrow of the Administration and the expulsion of Abraham Lincoln from the Presidential chair." The committee urges voters "not to arrest the blow which is just ready to descend upon the rebellion now tottering to its fall; not to give the rebels time to renew their strength for fresh conflicts; not to aid those who would aid them in overthrowing our Government, in destroying our Union, in plunging into a chaos of anarchy the great communities of which the Constitution makes one great and glorious nation, and in thus extinguishing, finally and forever, the hopes of all who have faith in Freedom and the Rights of Man." The missive is signed in type by Henry J. Raymond as Chairman and twenty other members of the National Union Committee. Whether thanks to their extensive literature output or merely a reflection of the existing public will, the National Union Party's aim was carried in 1864 by a historic margin, with Lincoln winning over ninety percent of the electoral vote. An uncommon fine piece of Civil War political ephemera. Light foxing and soiling to edges. Near fine.…
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- THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. APPEAL OF THE NATIONAL UNION COMMITTEE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES [caption title].
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- [Election of 1864]: [Civil War]:
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- [New York: National Union Executive Committee], Sept. 9, 1864.
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