Apr 07, 2022 - Sale 2600

Sale 2600 - Lot 174

Price Realized: $ 1,125
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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(NEW YORK.) Pair of broadsides from western New York political contests. Letterpress broadsides; folds, minor wear. No place, [1806]

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A pair of broadsides issued in upstate New York by Federalist Party partisans. The state party's leading figure during this period was DeWitt Clinton, who served as New York City mayor and later as governor. They relate to the 1806 campaign for the New York State Senate's western district, covering Schoharie, Herkimer, Onondaga, and Cayuga counties.

Signed in type as "Uniform Republican." "To the Republican Electors of the Western District." 16 x 13 1/4 inches; slightly defective with minimal loss of text. Shaw-Shoemaker 11490.

"To the Electors of the Western District." 15 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches; apparently unrecorded. A reply to a handbill circulated by "A Republican of 1776," which had assailed the character of three candidates for State Senate in the Western District, Evans Wharry, Freegift Patchin, and Joseph Annin.