"A SOLID SOUTH" 1876 ELECTION BROADSIDE BY WILLIAM G. BROWNLOW REFERENCING CIVIL WAR.
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Winning Bid:
$395.89
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Wednesday, July 10, 2019 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, July 10, 2019 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
15x22" on thin paper. Additional headline text "The Ballot-Box To Reverse The Bayonet. A Loyal Southron's Appeal To The North! HEED IT! Voters of New Hampshire." Before the Civil War Brownlow was owner of the pro-slavery but anti-secession newspaper the "Knoxville Whig", which had the largest circulation of any weekly in the South. Brownlow used the paper to lead the East Tennessee "Rebellion" against the Confederacy in 1861 and was jailed. Rather than make him a martyr, Confederate authorities released him, after which he headed to the North. There he became known through speeches attacking the Confederacy. After returning to Tennessee in 1863 he was elected Governor in 1865 and to the Senate in 1869. This broadside is one of his editorials, written to the editor of the Concord Tribune in New Hampshire it was published by the "Republican Press Association, Concord." A decidedly anti-Tilden tone it reads in part: "Let No Man Delude Himself Into The Belief That The success Of Samuel J. Tilden As The Leader Of The Democracy Does Not Mean Southern Supremacy. I Speak Forth The Words Of Truth And Soberness When I Say That They Intend To Accomplish Through The Ballot-box What They Failed To Achieve On The Bloody Field." Three vertical and one horizontal fold. Near complete separation along horizontal fold and a 3" vertical separation at top center. Moderate age toning and faint damp stains. Good. Rare. Only the second we've seen in our 52 years.
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