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Erschreckende Thatsachen! : Leset -- uuberlegt -- und erwaget sie!

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19596
Date of Publication
September 14, 1808.
Call Number
324.5 E73 1808
  1 website  
Place of Publication
[Pennsylvania]
Publisher
[publisher not identified] ,
Date of Publication
September 14, 1808.
Physical Description
40 pages : 20 cm.
Notes
"Den 14ten September, 1808".
Attributed to Henrich Schweitzer, Philadelphia, printer based on typographical evidence.
Shaw and Shoemaker 14953.
"First century of German language printing in the United States of America" by Arndt and Ect 1635.
Contains statements by various Pennsylvania officials.
Translatation available as: Horrifying facts ! : read - consider- and weigh them!
Unbound pamphlet with cover title.
Subjects
Snyder, Simon - 1759-1819.
Ross, James - 1762-1847.
Campaign literature, 1808 - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - Governor - Elections.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
324.5 E73 1808
Websites
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Horrifying facts! : read -- consider -- and weigh them!

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19590
Date of Publication
2014.
Call Number
324.5 H816
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Alternate Title
Erschreckende Thatsachen :
Responsibility
Translated from the German by Cecile Zorach.
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania
Publisher
LancasterHistory.org,
Date of Publication
2014.
Physical Description
39 pages ; 28 cm.
Notes
"Den 14ten September, 1808".
Contains statements by various Pennsylvania officials.
Library holds the German original.
Attributed to Henrich Schweitzer, Philadelphia, printer based on typographical evidence.
Shaw and Shoemaker 14953.
Summary
This resource is a pamphlet concerning the 1808 Pennsylvanian gubernatorial election between Democratic-Republican candidate Simon Schneider (Snyder) (1759-1819) and Federalist James Ross (1762-1847). The writers of the pamphlet were alerting the public to what they believed were threats to their freedoms if Snyder were elected: "Free Voters of Pennsylvania! Read the following pages, and consider what to do before it is too late. The time is extremely important: be alert, otherwise your freedom will disappear for ever, and all the famous rights and privileges will be sacrificed on the alter of anarchy." The pamphlet includes testimonials from area persons who were worried that Snyder would call a convention to change the constitution in order to take away the rights of poor men to vote and to establish a military tribunal about the rights of conscience.
Subjects
Snyder Simon - 1759-1819.
Ross, James - 1762-1847.
Campaign literature, 1808 - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - Governor - Elections.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Additional Author
Zorach, Cecile,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
324.5 H816
Websites
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The origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856

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Author
Gienapp, William E.
Date of Publication
1987.
Call Number
324.273 G454
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Responsibility
William E. Gienapp.
ISBN
0195041003 (alk. paper)
9780195041002 (alk. paper)
0195055012 (pbk.)
9780195055016 (pbk.)
Author
Gienapp, William E.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication
1987.
Physical Description
xi, 564 p., [16] p. of plates : maps ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 449-474.
Contents
Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The presidential election of 18522 -- 2. The collapse of the second party system -- 3. Nebraska and nativism -- 4. The confusion of fusion -- 5. The failure of fusion -- 6. New issues, new leaders, new organizations -- 7. Launching the republican party -- 8. The formation of a national party organization -- 9. Spring breakthrough -- 10. The nomination of Frémont -- 11. Free soil, free labor, free speech, freemen, Frémont -- 12. The Frémont campaign -- 13. A victorious defeat -- Bibliography -- Statistical appendix -- Tables -- Index.
Summary
The 1850s saw in America the breakdown of the Jacksonian party system in the North and the emergence of a new sectional party--the Republicans--that succeeded the Whigs in the nation's two-party system. This monumental work uses demographic, voting, and other statistical analysis as well as the more traditional methods and sources of political history to trace the realignment of American politics in the 1850s and the birth of the Republican party. Gienapp powerfully demonstrates that the organization of the Republican party was a difficult, complex, and lengthy process and explains why, even after an inauspicious beginning, it ultimately became a potent political force. The study also reveals the crucial role of ethnocultural factors in the collapse of the second party system and thoroughly analyzes the struggle between nativism and antislavery for political dominance in the North. The volume concludes with the decisive triumph of the Republican party over the rival American party in the 1856 presidential election. Far-reaching in scope yet detailed in analysis, this is the definitive work on the formation of the Republican party in antebellum America. ... Publisher descri[ption.
Subjects
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) - History.
Republican Party (U.S.)
Political parties - United States
Elections - United States
United States - Politics and government - 1853-1857.
United States - Political parties: Republican Party (U.S.), 1852-1856
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
324.273 G454
Websites
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