Stitched self wrappers
1852 · Boston
by [Election of 1852. Pierce, Franklin]
Boston: Beals, Greene, & Co, 1852. First edition. Stitched self wrappers. A very good copy, scant foxing to wrappers, vertical mail fold.. 24 pp. Two columns. 8vo. At head of title: From the Boston post. Written in response to rumors and allegations from the Whig party that Franklin Pierce was religiously intolerant, especially aimed at Irish Catholics. "in American political contests the searching questions ought to be ever, as to a candidate, 'Is he honest? is he capable? Is He Faithful to the Constitution?' while an approach to any thing like the popery cry of the British Tory party, or an appeal to a sect as such, ought to be severely denounced (truncated)