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- GLC#
- GLC02383
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- October 1854
- Author/Creator
- Jay, John, 1817-1894
- Title
- Free Democratic Address to the People of the State of New York.
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 38 cm, Width: 24 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Anti-slavery broadside signed in type by John P. Hale, Hiram Barney and John Jay, the New York Politician and descendant of the earlier John Jay, as a committee appointed by the State Convention of the Free Democracy. Urges support for anti-Nebraska candidates in forthcoming elections. "The Nebraska bill passed the senate at midnight, amid oaths and drunken insolence desecrating that once august chamber...With the passage of the bill that removed the landmark of freedom, and opened our western territories to the curse of slavery..."
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