Anti-Slavery Whig Party Broadside 1847

RHODE ISLAND. Broadside, “Electors of the Western District!”, 1p, 12.5” x 19”, South Kingston, August 11, 1847. Scattered pencil notations. Edgewear mostly apparent at right side, creasing, light soiling, browning and foxing, else in very good condition.

Set up in three columns, the broadside uses cuts of runaway slaves to illustrate its anti-slavery position. The text denounces the war as “the present unjust and wicked war with Mexico”, and continues regarding the myriad costs, “But it was not merely the amount of public money squandered in this war, it was not even the great danger to the liberties of the country from the enormous and unconstitutional powers claimed by the President, and from the system of corruption which prevailed in administration – there was a more momentous consideration than even all these – that was the object for which the war was carried on – the EXTENSION of SLAVERY!!” The text continues with exhortations to its readers, denouncing the “inhuman system of slavery”.

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