2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Imprint, 8pp., printed by King and Baird, Philadelphia, titled “Address of the UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA to the Citizens of Pennsylvania, with Preamble and Resolutions,” adopted in General Meeting, August 26th, 1868. Disbound. In part, “Again you are called to the polls to defend the cause for which, since 1860, you have shown your devotion in so many sacrifices. You doubtless thought, when the rebels laid down their arms and acknowledged themselves vanquished ... No, our work is not yet done, nor will it be done until Northern ideas shall have been penetrated throughout the South, and society there shall have reconstructed itself on the basis of true Democracy. When Abraham Lincoln said that the United States could not remain half slave and half free, he gave utterance only to a portion of a great truth. Our country must be homogeneous. One section of it cannot' be aristocratic, nursing sedulously the exploded notions of class privileges, and persecuting men because they labor for their daily bread, or because they entertain ideas repugnant to the dominant caste; while the other section honors labor and the laborer, admits of no distinction between citizens, and grants the fullest toleration to every shade of opinion on every subject. .... Whereas, The policy proclaimed by the so-called Democratic party, in its platform and in the utterances of its candidates and representative leaders, is such as justly to create the profoundest alarm as to the future of our country ; and Whereas, In the perils to which we are thus exposed all the great principles which this League was founded to support, it is proper that we should express our sense of the issues which are to be decided at the coming elections, and that we should use all honorable means to avert the dangers inseparable from a Democratic victory at the polls....” The Union League of Philadelphia, organized in 1862 as a political club for the support of the Union cause during the Civil War, developed into the premier urban social club of Philadelphia.
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