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1872 Grant & Wilson Campaign Broadside

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Historical Memorabilia Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 550.00 USD
1872 Grant & Wilson Campaign Broadside
<B>1872 Grant & Wilson Campaign Broadside Advertising a Meeting of the Republican Party at Lewes, Delaware</B></I>. 18” x 23.5”, mounted on fiberboard. The election of 1872 was a particularly contentious affair. The Republican party split with the incumbent Grant leading the Radical Republicans and Horace Greeley heading up the Liberal Republicans. Amazingly, the Democratic Party also supported the Greeley/Brown ticket. This broadside clearly gives a sense of the anger of Grant’s supporters for the Greeley/Democratic alliance: “The Democratic party of the country, though for years in the minority…battled bravely and consistently for the principles it professed…commanding the respect of even those most hostile to its doctrines. But now, despairing of success in an honorable warfare, it seeks by indirection, and its trading managers for the spoils of office have “sold out” the honest masses, and attempted to deliver them into the hands of life-long enemies - the sore-headed Republicans, led by Horace Greeley.” Nathaniel B. Smithers, the Representative from Delaware and Jacob Moore, the former Attorney General of the state were featured speakers at the meeting. This rare broadside is uniformly toned with a few tears, small holes and chipped edges, else it remains a fine example of memorabilia from this contentious campaign.<BR><BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Miscellaneous Collectibles, Larg (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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