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Title: Union ticket! Protection to American industry
Description: Printed in red, blue, and black., The illustration, signed Adrian-Probasco Phila., shows diverse Americans, including one African American, gathered around the U.S. flag, in front of the temple of liberty, with scenes of agriculture, commerce, and industry; surmounting all is the legend: Constitution and the law., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; possibly the top hald of a double-sheet poster?, Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1864 Union (5)5777.F.28 (McAllister) 1 1

Title: New England fanaticism Who are the real disunionists? In a speech at Framingham, Massachusetts, July 4th, 1863, Wendell Phillips, now the great apostle of abolition, said, "The Union without liberty (to the negroes,) is tenfold to-day more accursed than it was any time the last quarter of a century. ... The Rev. Dr. Tyng, at a meeting of thre Freedmen's Relief Society, New York November 9th, 1863, said, "No gradual emanipcation now. No compensated emanicpation now Now put the axe to the root of the tree, and down with it--down with it." ... Horace Greely, before any state had attempted to go out of the Union, said, "If the cotton states, unitedly and earnestly, wish to withdraw peacefully from the Union, we think they should and would be allowed to do so. ... In "Helper's impending crisis," published in 1860, a book that was recommended by the present Secretary of State, will be found (pages 155-6,) these words: "No Union with slaveholders; ineligibility of slaveholders to office; no recognition of pro-slavery men, except as ruffians, outlaws, and criminals."
Description: Parentheses substituted for square brackets in transcription., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; MS. note: November 1864., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 New England (6)5777.F.51 (McAllister)

Title: National Hall! Market Street above Twelfth. George Francis Train will speak this evening! October 22d, at 8 o'clock, and give his reasons why Gen. McClellan should not be elected president. All are invited to attend!
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1864 Nat Hall (5)5777.F.40 (McAllister)

Title: Who shall be vice-president? Shall he be a loyal or a disloyal man? Past experience shows that the choice of vice-president of the United States is almost as important as that of president. In case the latter dies or becomes unable to perform the duties of his office, they devolve to the former
Description: Text printed in two columns., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: National Union Executive Committee (U.S.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Nat Union 5793.F.39a (McAllister)

Title: Startling record!! The great disunion conspiracy of Massachusetts!!! Union men must stand by the union, stand by the president, and the army, and the best of governments, against the boasted "Hub of the Universe," the centre of disunion!
Description: Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1863?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 Star 15628.O .7a

Title: Gen. Dix's proclamation Know all men by these presents: that I, John L. Dix, (no relation to the rebel "Dixie") knowing that the feeling excited in the breasts of our brave Union army by the combination of colors known as red, white and red, are by no means agreeable, do hereby, by virtue of the authority vested in me, by His Majesty Abraham 1st, require and command all police officers of the city of Baltimore in the pay of His Majesty's government to suppress and cause to disappear all substances, whether in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth, bearing the said combination of rebel colors. ... Done at the Baltimore Bastile, this 4th day of September, the 1st year of Abraham's glorious and peaceful reign
Description: Broadside attacking the Lincoln administration; Gen. John A. Dix took charge of the Baltimore District in Aug. 1861., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 18.3 x 12.1 cm., The illustration is a humorous "upside-down" reversible image of a man's head., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Dix, John L.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Dix 5795.F.175 (McAllister)

Title: The Union M'Clellan & Pendleton! Hon. Josiah Randall, of Philadelphia, Hon. Henry P. Ross, S.L. Roberts and N.C. James will address the Democratic and conservative citizens this evening, Wednesday, September 21st, in the Court House at the ringing of the bell. Sept. 21, 1864
Description: The illustration, signed H.L.S. L. Johnson & Co. Copyright secured, is an eagle on a shield with the banner: Little Mac, and the Buckeye Boy!, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Union (6)5777.F.81b (McAllister)

Title: McClellan and Pendleton! Democratic mass meeting! at the White Bear Hotel, in Addisville, on Saturday, October 15th, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. All who are in favor of free discussion, free speech, free press, our rights under the writ of habeas corpus, the Constitution as it is, the Union of the states as they were,---all Democrats and all conservative Union loving citizens are earnestly invited to attend. The following eminent speakers will address the meeting: Hon Josiah Randall, Hon. William H. Witte, Geo. W. Northrop, Esq., Hon H.P. Ross, and N.C. James, Esq., and others. Efforts are being made to procure G.J. Beebe, of New York. Decorum and good order will be observed. Seats will be prepared for the ladies. A good band of music has been engaged!
Description: The illustration, signed H.L.S. L. Johnson & Co. Copyright secured, is an eagle on a shield with the banner: Little Mac, and the Buckeye Boy!, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1864 McClell (5)5777.F.64 (McAllister)

Title: Rally in your strength A grand Union Democratic mass meeting! of the citizens of Bucks and Montgomery Counties will be held at Warminster, on the York Road, one mile above Hatboro', and near the Street Road, on Tuesday, October 4, 1864, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. The delegation of the neighboring townships are invited to be in attendance. Hon. Henry P. Ross, Hon. John D. Stiles, Stokes L. Roberts, N.C. James, B. Markley Boyer, E.P. Banks, Dr. C.H. Hill, and other eminent speakers will address the meeting. A brass band will be on the ground. Ample accommodations will be provided for the ladies. Chief Marshal---Gen. Joseph Morrison
Description: The illustration, signed H.L.S. L. Johnson & Co. Copyright secured, is an eagle on a shield with the banner: Little Mac, and the Buckeye Boy!, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1864 Rally (5)5777.F.61 (McAllister)

Title: Something new! The Copperhead will be dissected by scalpel at Chamberlin's Hall, Moline, on Wednesday evening, March 30, '63 Tickets 25 cts., to be had at the door
Description: March 30 fell on a Wednesday in 1864., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook: MS. note corrects the date to '64; MS. note: 30 only of these and 70 altered as on slip., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Something (6)5777.F.91b (McAllister)

Title: Old Lincoln and his fellows, is the abolitionist's government!
Description: Broadside attacking the Lincoln administration., Caption title., Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 18.2 x 9.9 cm., The illustration is a humorous "upside-down" reversible image of a man's head., Library Company copy 5792.F.77 (McAllister) printed on blue paper; originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Library Company copy 5795.F.81a (McAllister) printed on green paper; originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare CIN=HAP; OID=HAP sm # Am 1861 Old Linc 5792.F.77 (McAllister), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Old Linc 5795.F.81a (McAllister)

Title: Old Lincoln and his fellows, is the abolitionist's government!
Description: Broadside attacking the Lincoln administration., Caption title., Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 18.2 x 9.9 cm., The illustration is a humorous "upside-down" reversible image of a man's head., Library Company copy 5792.F.77 (McAllister) printed on blue paper; originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Library Company copy 5795.F.81a (McAllister) printed on green paper; originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare CIN=HAP; OID=HAP sm # Am 1861 Old Linc 5792.F.77 (McAllister), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Old Linc 5795.F.81a (McAllister)

Title: What Jeff. Davis thinks of the war The main plank of the Chicago platform is that which pronounces the war a failure, and on that account demands that "immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities." ... Now let us see what Jeff. Davis thinks on this point. He has recently been in Georgia making speeches on the aspect of public affairs, and especially on the progress of the war waged by the United States for the supression of the Rebellion. ... It is now perfectly evident that the best way--indeed the only way to end the war and restore peace--is by sustaining the government and pushing on the war. ... If you approve this, vote for Lincoln!
Description: Printed in two columns., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Davis 5793.F.57a (McAllister)

Title: Is the war a failure? The Chicago convention declared that the War against the Rebellion had proved a failure. They put this forth as "the sense of the American people;" and on the strength of this declaration, they demanded that "immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities!"
Description: Argues against statements made at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago pronouncing the war a failure; followed by testimonials from various generals of the Union Army intended to illustrate the progress of the war in favor of the Union forces., Printed in two columns., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: National Union Executive Committee (U.S.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Nat Union 5793.F.55a (McAllister)

Title: Ohio Union presidential ticket. (Election November 8, 1864.) For president, Abraham Lincoln of Illinois. For vice president, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee. Electors
Description: Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Republican Party (Ohio)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Repub 5793.F.45b

Title: The Union forever! For president, Abraham Lincoln. For vice-president, Andrew Johnson For electors of the state of Maryland for president and vice-president of the United States. ... For governor, Thomas Swann
Description: At head of title: Baltimore City--Second District. Wards--8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 19, 20., Printed in red and blue; printed area measures 19.8 x 6.2 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Republican Party (Md.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Repub 5793.F.45c

Title: Union ticket. For president, Abraham Lincoln. For vice-president, Andrew Johnson For electors of the state of Maryland for president and vice-president of the United States. ... For governor, Thomas Swann
Description: Printed vertically along the left margin: Union ticket for voters residents of Worcester, Somerset, Dorchester, Talbot, Caroline, Queen Anne's, Kent and Cecil counties., Printed in red and blue; printed area measures 15.2 x 7.1 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Republican Party (Md.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Repub 5793.F.45d

Title: Union Republican 1864 ticket Ward 6 For presidential electors. ... For governor. John A. Andrew, of Boston
Description: Illustration at head, featuring Peace and Liberty flanking the U.S. flag and a cannon, is signed: Bricher-Russell engravers. Wright-Potter printers., Printed in red and blue; printed area measures 31.3 x 11.4 cm., Library Company copy has the red and blue printings poorly aligned., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Republican Party (Mass.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Repub 5793.F.45a

Title: You are respectfully invited to accompany the peace makers in their ariel flight to the land of rest Where there will be freedom of speech, to black-guard honest men, defame good government, and misrepresent all right action. Freedom of the press, to print what we please,--lawful, immoral, treasonable or any other species of information. Our nightly dreams will not be haunted by the spectre ghost of Old Abe nor our day dreams, by the fear of tyranny, which shuts (peace) men in Bastiles and prisons. The mourners will provide crape and grey butternut clothing, at their own expense. The ascension will take place precisely at midnight. Superintendent McKibben, will provide a Reed bird lunch. The McClellan campaign song, will be sung immediately at starting. Vallandigham will address the audience, supported by Pendleton, and letters from prominent men, such as Jeff Davis, Breckenridge and others will be read
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 You are 5755.F.23d (McAllister)

Title: Epitaph
Description: Broadside continues: Mr. Cox, member of Congress from Ohio, concluded his speech of June 6, 1862, with the following: Weary in watching its mad designs of revolution--and its crazy crotchets of Black freedom--and for the self preservation of my native state and the north from the Black immigration with which it is threatened, I shall go to my home and ask the ballot to speak its denunciation ... the people will write the epitaph of this Congress ..., Authorship and imprint statements from text., Includes caustic poem on the XXXVII Congress., Variants printed on pink, yellow, or white paper., Acc. no. 71187.O.1 printed on yellow paper; Acc. no. 71187.O.2 printed on white paper., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Cox, Samuel Sullivan, 1824-1889
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Sm # Am 1862 Cox 71187.O .1, Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Sm # Am 1862 Cox 71187.O .2

Title: The Olive branch. Peace and union. How shall we obtain them? 1st. Apply to the British minister to bring about foreign interference? ... 2d. Hold out the olive branch, confess our error in having resented the bombardment for Fort Sumter, propose peace and union, and with becoming dignity await the answer which the South cannot fail to give to its faithful ally, the Democratic Party? ... 3d. Let our "wayward sisters" go, and give up all hope of the Republic to secure intercourse on the basis of mutual good will and respect? ... 4th. Submit to the Rebels, let them close the Mississippi River, blockade the Susquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay, divide the United States east and west by the Ohio River, pursue their run-away slaves through the remaining states with force and arms, and finally, let us beg them to permit us to remain in our homes as long as it seems good to them. ... Democrats, is this the kind of peace and union, or disunion, for which we beg the European interference in American affairs through the British ministers?
Description: 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 #Am 1863 Olive 5786.F.171a (McAllister)

Title: The Road to peace through Pennsylvania via Washington, as engineered by Southern Rebels and their Democratic allies From the Richmond enquirer, (Jeff. Davis' organ,) Sept. 7, 1860 [sic]. The road to peace. ... Men of Pennsylvania! Are you prepared for peace on such terms? If not, proclaim to the Southern Rebels, by the ballot-box, at the next election, that the Pennsylvania road to peace, is through submission to the Constitution, and in the Union
Description: An appeal to the voters of Pennsylvania not to make a Democratic peace., 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 #Am 1863 Road (6)5777.F.21c (McAllister)

Title: A traitor's peace! Workingmen! The politicians who cry out for "peace," and "the Union as it was," tell us that it is a very easy thing to settle the troubles between the North and the South. Read the following conditions on which the Richmond Enquirer of the 16th of October, proposed to settle and have "peace:"--- ... Comrades! Vote for the party that stands by the government, and vote for the men who stand by us, and by our brave brothers in the field, and let the ballot-box tell the story of your patriotism, and your resolve not to be the "white slaves" of traitors or their friends
Description: 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.102a (McAllister)

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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