Apr 13, 2023 - Sale 2633

Sale 2633 - Lot 144

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(PRESIDENTS--1824 CAMPAIGN.) "Our Country . . . Home Industry" broadside opposing Andrew Jackson. Illustrated broadside, 15 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches, signed in type "On Behalf of the Manufacturers"; folds, 1/2-inch tear in right margin, otherwise minimal wear. No place, [1824]
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The 1824 campaign was a complicated four-cornered race with John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson in the lead, and Henry Clay and William Crawford drawing strong regional support. This broadside is addressed to "Manufacturers and Mechanics," and warns that "the Jackson Party" intended to eliminate tariffs and all "encouragement for manufactures": "The sound of the shuttle will no longer be heard. Our stores will be filled with British and Scotch ginghams." Even Jackson campaign materials were being produced abroad.

New York Evening Post editor William Coleman is mentioned repeatedly as an archvillain who needed no introduction, suggesting a New York audience. Coleman's friendly attitude toward the British ships lurking off New York at the outset of the War of 1812 is assumed to be common knowledge, referring to Sandy Hook as "the Hook." A strong anti-British streak runs through the entire text.

In closing, we are urged to support Henry Clay, whose "speeches will be read as long as eloquence has admirers" and who "brought forward the American system." "Go to the Polls--put down the favorite British candidates--vindicate your friends--and save yourselves and your country."

The three woodcut illustrations mostly emphasize the political stance, although the ship "John Quincy Adams of Washington" flies the banner of "Free trade & sailor's rights" and "No colonial subjection." Why not the ship Henry Clay? It is flanked by the twin powers of industry and agriculture: "National Industry is National Wealth," "Agriculture is the Source of Prosperity."

Reilly 1824-3. One in OCLC, at the Library of Congress; no other examples traced at auction.