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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: 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: 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: W.W. Owen, Democratic candidate for jailer "Equal rights to all--exclusive privileges to none." Fellow citizens: The Louisville Democrat of the 26th June contains an editorial so entirely consonant with my views that I cannot restrain my desire to lay portions of it before you in the form of a circular. ... Our opinion is, that there are no greater enemies to the restoration of the Union that the abolition partisans at Washington. ... It is convenient to charge those who denounce the schemes of this dominant party with sympathy with the rebellion. It is a cheap mode of defense. ... I wish votes, but only upon honorable terms, nor do I wish the vote of any abolitionist or any one sympathizing with that unpatriotic and detestable party
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Owen, W. W.
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Owen 5786.F.49a (McAllister)

Title: W.W. Owen, Democratic candidate for jailer "Equal rights to all--exclusive privileges to none." Fellow citizens: The Louisville Democrat of the 26th June contains an editorial so entirely consonant with my views that I cannot restrain my desire to lay portions of it before you in the form of a circular. ... Our opinion is, that there are no greater enemies to the restoration of the Union that the abolition partisans at Washington. ... It is convenient to charge those who denounce the schemes of this dominant party with sympathy with the rebellion. It is a cheap mode of defense. ... I wish votes, but only upon honorable terms, nor do I wish the vote of any abolitionist or any one sympathizing with that unpatriotic and detestable party
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Owen, W. W.
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Owen 5786.F.49a (McAllister)

Title: Old Abe Lincoln and his abolition war!
Description: Verse in two cantos; first line: Who sowed the seeds of discontent, hatred, strife., Caption title., Includes four letters, each signed "Julien": first, to James Gordon Bennett, dated Louisville, Sept. 8, 1861; second, to the president, dated Chicago, Aug. 10 1861; and third and fourth, both address "Dear Brother," and dated New York, Nov. 28 and New York, Dec. 22, 1861., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 56.5 x 41.2 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Julien
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1861 Julien 5792.F.90 (McAllister)

Title: The New-York weekly Caucasian. The white man's paper The proprietors of The Caucasian are happy to announce that, "the press being once more free," they can now send their paper by the mail. The Caucasian is issued by the publishers of The day-book, the place of which it will take for the present
Description: The New-York weekly Caucasian was published from Oct. 1861 to Sept. 1863; The New-York Weekly day-book Caucasian was published from Oct. 1863 to May 1868., Printed area measures 19.6 x 11.3 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: Van Evrie, Horton & Co.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Van Evrie 75106.O

Title: The question settled
Description: Cartoon depicting Abraham Lincoln as "Old Abe," a white cat who drives "Jeff," (i.e., Jefferson Davis) depicted as a grey striped cat with a noose around his neck from the "United States" food dish. The black cat, "Contraband," (i.e., African American Civil War freedom seeker) makes his way into the dish from the other side. The plate rests upon the Union flag and a map depicting the lower Southern States blockaded by figures of Union ships., Title from item., Possible date of publication supplied by Weitenkampf., During the Civil War, the U.S government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Purchase 1970., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1862-12W [7870.F]

Title: A confederacy against the Constitution and the rights of the people with an historical view of the component parts of this diabolical transaction
Description: Cartoon during the Bank War satirizing the Whig Party as greedy, anti-democratic, pro-Bank, pro-business infidels who worship in the Temple of Mammon to the false god of riches. Atop the temple, a white man, holding a flag inscribed "No Veto! The Bank! Down with Democracy!" kneels on a pedestal inscribed "Bank Candidate. War, Pestilence, and Famine." Within the temple sit symbolic and political figures including: the Devil representing the "Hartford Convention" of 1815, which debated Northern secession; the "High Church" as a clergyman pleading for donations to preach; the "High Priest" Henry Clay with his "U.S. Bank Book" sitting on his throne the "Chair of State"; the "High Chancellor," Bank of the United States president, Nicholas Biddle pouring out a bag of money to buy newspaper editors; a Northerner ("High Tarrif") discussing slavery, "You Southern Barons have black slaves will you not allow us to make white slaves of our poor population in our Manufacturing Baronies"; and southern pro-nullification senator John C. Calhoun ("No Tariff"), who bemoans his association with Whigs in his personal campaign against political rival Martin Van Buren. In the foreground, worshipers, including monkeys, pray and are chained near a printing press, pro-Bank newspapers, and flags and banners. The flags and banners denigrate "Jefferson," "democracy," and "equal rights" and support "high tariffs," the "merchant class," the "Bank of the United States," and "white slavery.", Title from item., Artist's initial lower left corner: H., Probably published by labor radical Seth Luther., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Lib. Company. Annual report, 2001, p. 27, 30., 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., 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: [1833?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1833-20 [5760.F.43]

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