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Title: "My friends." When in July 1863, the city of New York was under the reign of a mob, when stores were closed, workshops shut, cars and stages laid up, alarm bells ringing, dwellings burning, inoffensive women and children seeking prisons for safety, unoffending men hanging and roasting at lamp posts, the horizon lighted up by burning orphan asylums, at such a time when no man felt safe, when every citizen had to guard his home, when peaceful law-abiding citizens had to patrol the streets for mutual protection, when law and order were as it seemed, dead, when arson, plunder, murder, and all the infernal passions of a brutalized mob were holding high carnival, and civilization went draped in mourning, then Horatio Seymour. the candidate of the McClellan Confederate Peace Democracy for governor of New York, requested the men doing these bloody deeds, to meet him in front of the City Hall in New York, and there began his coaxing, blarneying address to them, with the words "My friends."
Description: Printed area, including the ornamental border, measures 26.0 x 17.3 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1863?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 My friends 5741.F.71c (McAllister)

Title: Not very like a whale but very like a fish. Seventh Ward promenades
Description: Cartoon depicting the riots caused by the corrupt electioneering tactics and voter coercion during the first general mayoral election in New York City in 1834. In the right, the mob of people shout "Hurrah for Lawrence" ie. Cornelius Lawrence, the Tammany candidate and winner of the election. The crowd, including African American men depicted in racist caricature, carry pieces of wood as they chase the white man attired in a nightshirt and cap, probably New York merchant and 7th Ward Bank investor, Preserved Fish. A dog also runs after him. "Preserved Fish" runs past a building with a banner, "Hurrah for Gulian C. Verplanck," the Whig candidate who contended that he was defrauded of the office. The corrupt 7th Ward Bank funneled money to Tammany officers and supporters. In the left background, another crowd of men is visible., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [1834]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1834 - 15W [5760.F.86x]

Title: A great fraud The true object of democratic institutions is to promote the security, happiness, freedom, and prosperity of the people, under a government of their own framing, and under laws enacted by the representatives of their own choice.---The government of the Unites Staes [sic] is of this kind. Politicians, ambitious of place and power, and who have for more than thirty years plotted the overthrow of democracy, have during all that time been guilty of a great fraud on the workingmen of the country. ... In the name of democracy they have stirred up the laboring men and have filled the streets of New York with bloodshed, arson, and riots, and have disgraced us in the eyes of the world. ... Workingmen of the Union! The man who advocates such doctrines is not a democrat, but an enemy of democracy, and the foe of every laborer
Description: Another issue is dated: New York, Nov. 19th, 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2008, p. 49.
Creator: Democratic workingman
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 Democrat (6)5777.F.109a (McAllister)

Title: Don't unchain the tiger! When the traitors of South Carolina met in Convention in Charleston, and passed their ordinance to abolish the American Union, to crush out the democratic principles of free government in America, ... Workingmen! when any man asks you to break the law, and tries to stir up your passions, while he skulks out of sight, you may set him down as your worst enemy. Spurn him as you would a viper. The patriotic workingmen of the North cannot afford to spend time in killing each other. Be wise, and above all things, don't unchain the tiger!
Description: Another issue is dated: New York, July 24th, 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2008, p. 49.
Creator: Democratic workingman
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 Demcrat (6)5777.F.103b (McAllister)

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