Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
A complete and authentic issue of the Rochester Daily Union and Advertiser, Oct. 20, 1864, four pages, 20" x 27", negligible damp stain upper half front page. The Democratic Presidential Ticket appears at the top of the first left column announcing George B. McClellan for president and George H. Pendleton as vice president. This newspaper's contents whole heartily backs George B. McClellan in his bid for the White House and with the editor's anti-Lincoln Administration war effort content is reflect throughout its "news stories." Headlines include stories which were, if not total fabrications, a distortion of the truth. Some of these headlines include: (1) "McClellan's Assailant's Confronted with Their Record.", reading, in part: "We publish…an article taken from the Albany Evening Journal…it will be amusing to place this article beside the ungenerous, abusive attacks upon Gen. McClellan which now appear daily in…the Journal."; "(2) The Late Elections-Lincoln Aping Loyalty." This news story declares that Lincoln had authorized a new coin to be minted with his [Lincoln's] portrait on it which honors him as the monarch of the United States; (3) "The Lincoln-Johnson Usurpation in Tennessee."; (4) "How Soldiers Are Compelled To G For Lincoln."; (5) "THe Massachusetts White Slave Trade." This article states as fact that foreign immigrants were forced to fight in Massachusetts regiments under the fear of being shot by Federal troops while in battle!; (6) "The Rebels Eager for Lincoln's Re-Election."; and (7) "White Solders Can Be Arrested by a Negro for Cheering for General McClellan." This article, as with the others are shocking by today's standards and reads, in part: "To-day a negro soldier can arrest and imprison a white veteran for hurrahing for…George B. McClellan…an instance of this kind occurred at a military post…the white man must now stop and show his 'pass' to the negro when he desires to go to market or place of business." Much more like content. A newspaper that easily shows that playing dirty politics is not a modern invention and an interesting read for the modern historian. In very good condition with binding holes to the edge and damp stain as noted earlier.
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