Browse Items (454 total)

  • Collection: Broadsides, Posters and Printed Ephemera

To the Freesoilers of Washington Co.

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Report on the investigation into claims of election fraud by members of the Free Democratic County Committee (Washington County, Vermont) in 1853.

The Americans of Trenton intend to hold a Meeting

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Printed letter including response from Hon. Stockton.

To the Freemen of Vermont

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Anti-Federalist campaign literature proposing Israel Smith over Isaac Tichenor for governor.

Gentlemen: Your names having been presented to the Convention...we deem it our duty to notify you of your appointment to the office of County Committee

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Notice of appointment to the office of County Committee, with the charge "to disseminate correct political information among the people, and to endeavor to bring into action at the approaching Election the strength of the Republican Party".

County Meeting

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Notice of a county meeting scheduled for early March 1834.

Dear Sir: You are aware that our annual Town Meeting takes place to-day.

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Plea for Whig voters to participate in the town elections of March 6th, 1843.

Sir: The undersigned, in behalf of the Democratic party, would beg leave to call your attention to the importance of having a very large Convention at Woodstock

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Broadside asking for a political convention to be called for the state in Woodstock on the 20th of May. Removed from: Acc. no.: 13599

Plan of the Floor of the House of Representatives: Showing the Seat of each Member

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A floor plan of the House of Representatives Manuscript note attached to broadside: "My dear Member. I send you a lithographic drawing shewing the seats of the members Speaker, Clerk & assistant Clerk so that in reading a debate you can imagine their…

Vermont Colonization Society

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Printed letter to ministers of churches requesting collection for support of the Vermont Colonization Society.

Prospectus Equalizationist

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A prospectus calling for a new paper discussing abolitionist sentiments .

By His Excellency Thomas Chittenden, Esquire, A Warrant

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List of candidates and number of votes, followed by directions for holding town meetings for the purpose of choosing a representative for the U.S. Congress.