Pro-Lincoln New York Broadsheet: "The Presidential Election"

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Broadside, Astor House, New York, Sept. 9, 1864, "The Presidential Election - Appeal of the National Union Committee to the People of the United States," Very Fine.Scathing text in response to the Democratic party nomination of McClellen, in part “The great Rebellion, which for more than three years has wrapped the nation in the flames of civil war, draws near its crisis. Its armies have been beaten, its territory has been conquered, the forts and posts which it treacherously seized have been occupied and held by the soldiers of the Republic ... If the People in that election sustain the Government, if they reassert its just authority and reaffirm their purpose to maintain it by war so long as war assails it, the Rebellion will speedily end. If they falter in this determination, or leave any room for doubt on this vital point, the rebels will take fresh courage and prolong the contest. ... this hostility has been embodied and organized in the acts and declarations of the Chicago Convention. ... it passes in utter silence the gigantic usurpations of Jefferson Davis and his confederate traitorsThat Convention had no words of exultation for our victories ; no thanks and honors for the soldiers and sailors who have shed their blood to achieve them. While it denounces our Government for neglect of duty ... lovers of the Union and friends of Freedom — against the consummation of the foul crime against both which the acts and declarations of the Chicago Convention involve. We invoke them not to sanction these principles and sentiments by electing the candidates put forward to represent them.

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