THE APPEAL TO PENNSYLVANIA. A SPEECH...DELIVERED AT A MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF BUCHANAN AND BRECKINRIDGE, AT SOMERSET, PA., SEPTEMBER 24, 1856

[Philadelphia?, 1856. 28, [4 blanks] pp. Disbound, scattered foxing. Top margin trimmed closely, occasionally shaving portions of page numbers but not affecting text. Good+.

The Pennsylvania lawyer Reed began his political career as a Whig. The collapse of that Party brought him-- not to the Republicans or the Know-Nothings, the usual path for Northern Whigs-- but to Buchanan and the Democrats. Here he defends his endorsement of the Democrats' presidential ticket: Buchanan "is the most congenial candidate to national men...His election is essential (truncated) not merely to the safety, but what is nearly as important the tranquility of the Union." His "Whig friends, who have turned Republicans," are making a big mistake by bowing before "the obtrusive fanaticism of the North." Reed reviews with approval the long political career of Buchanan.
LCP 8717. (Inventory #: 29182)