2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Political Campaign Pamphlet, “WHY I AM A WHIG” Reply to an Inquiring Friend”, by Greeley, Horace, Published by Tribune Office, N-Y, 1852, 16pp. Greeley's focus is on the problems with the Democratic Party and the shared principles of the Whigs, and captures a sensibility about political parties when they were both extremely powerful and distrusted and characteristic Whig concerns about democratic politics. In small aprt, “Two grand and fruitful ideas attract and divide the political world. On the one hand Liberty, on the other Order is the watchword of a mighty host, impatient of resistance and eager for universal dominion. . . . But neither of these suffices without the other. Each is indispensable to general contentment, prosperity, and happiness. No good is secure in the absence of either. If without Liberty human existence is bitter and irksome, without Order it is precarious and beset with constant perils. . . .”
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