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A very rare "Salt River" broadside from the Philadelphia mayoral election of 1868, celebrating the Democratic victory and the city's repudiation of Radical Republicanism. From the 1840s, "Salt River" became popular political iconography a candidate's trip "up Salt River" meant a one-way ticket to political ruin. The phrase is said to have originated when presidential candidate Henry Clay (running against Andrew Jackson) hired a boatman to row him up the Ohio River to Louisville to make a speech: "The boatman, said to be a Jackson man, rowed Clay up Salt River [a tributary of the Ohio] instead, and Clay failed to reach Louisville in time for his speech. His defeat for the Presidency brought later derisive references to this incident, and Representative Alexander Duncan (Ohio, [Democrat]), gifted in coining apt terms, probably first used the expression, 'they have been rowing up Salt River,' in a speech in the House in 1839, to describe the futility of the opposition party" - DAH. Philadelphia, stolidly Republican throughout the Civil War, soon reversed course after the end of hostilities, becoming one of the more conservative of the major Northern cities: "The Democratic Party of Philadelphia made opposition to black rights a centerpiece of its political culture. As black activists seeking to reconstruct Philadelphia increasingly allied themselves with state and national Republicans in order to fight for racial equality and full citizenship, Philadelphia Democrats and even some Republicans came to see parallels between the Reconstruction of the Confederate states and the efforts of the state and federal governments to interfere in matters they felt to be purely of local concern….The story of Reconstruction in Philadelphia more closely resembles the narrative commonly associated with the South than it does the account many recent historians have told of the post-Civil War" Diemer, pp.30-32. In 1868, Democrat Daniel M. Fox ran against Union General Hector Tyndale for the office of mayor. Prevailing by a slim enough margin that the results were resolved in court, his victory was nonetheless a sign of the Radical Republicans' flagging support in the city. This celebratory broadside contains eight vignettes with scenes lampooning the defeated Republicans: one depicts former Republican Mayor McMichael and the defeated Tyndale as fish, "bound for Salt River;" another, captioned "The old gent has to walk" shows a well-dressed man walking down the street, likely in reference to the controversial integration of streetcars under McMichael. Below this are two more-overtly racist vignettes, including "The three Brethern that failed to catch the FOX," and most strikingly, "The stampede from the Mayor's Office," which shows a trio of Black men fleeing a White police officer carrying a Billy club. Fox's platform was explicitly in opposition to Black suffrage and integration, and his election was accompanied by a noticeable if not overwhelming Democratic swing in the state legislature. Republicans would regain control of the city in the 1870s, but they did so largely by backing away from their more radical policies (though at least defending those equalities they had already managed to win). A rare piece of election ephemera from the difficult years of Reconstruction in Philadelphia. OCLC records no copies, although we locate one in the Salt River Ephemera Collection at the Library Company of Philadelphia. DAH V, p.19. Andrew Diemer, "Reconstructing Philadelphia: African Americans and Politics in the Post-Civil War North" in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 133, no. 1 (January 2009), pp.29-58. Old horizontal fold, uneven tanning, a few small chips to edges, upper left corner reinforced with tape on verso. About very good.
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