FREE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. FREE SOIL, FREE SPEECH, FREE LABOR, FREE MEN! HALE AND JULIAN. FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT & VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

[Boston, 1852. Broadside, 5-3/4" x 9-1/2." Some spotting at right lower half, mostly in the blank margin; torn at blank lower corner. Text complete. Iconic Screaming Eagle, holding olive branch and arrows in its talons, and carrying "E Pluribus Unum" banner, within the title. Good+.

John Hale of New Hampshire was a longtime antislavery man. He won the presidential nomination of the short-lived Independent Democrats in 1852. George Julian of Indiana was his running mate. They would soon migrate to the new Republican Party in 1854.
This is a Massachusetts ticket for the upcoming national elections. Among the listed Electors are John Greenleaf Whittier; Samuel E. Sewall, who had previously run for Governor on the Liberty Party ticket; and other erstwhile Liberty Party men like Joel Hayden.
A coalition of antislavery Whigs, old Liberty and Free Soil Party men, and Independent Democrats would form the Republican Party in 1854.
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