Bumm, Harry, fl. 1862-1863 Democratic Creed!

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GLC#
GLC05889
Type
Broadsides, posters & signs
Date
circa 1862-1863
Author/Creator
Bumm, Harry, fl. 1862-1863
Title
Democratic Creed!
Place Written
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pagination
3 p. : Height: 74.8 cm, Width: 116 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

National Union illustrated election broadside. "Democratic Creed! Love Creed! Love for Civilization and Niggers!... Worship of Southern aristocracy! Sneer for Northern Mechanics." An anti-slavery and anti-Democrat broadside for National Union candidate Harry Bumm. Appeals to the working class. Indirectly refers to the competition for jobs by freed Black labor in the North. The broadside quotes a supposed letter from Bumm's opponent for Philadelphia city treasurer, John Brodhead, to Jefferson Davis. Brodhead is said to have Southern sympathies and favor the institution of slavery over having a free working class. Sheet two features an uncomplimentary engraving of a southern plantation. Sheet three has an engraving of a group of well-dressed people going on the American Mechanics excursion to Atlantic City.

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