(William Henry HARRISON) An excellent, early broadside, 18 x 12 in. (sight), simply and directly titled “HARRISON” above a woodcut of an American eagle and shield. (Newburgh, [N.Y.], 10 January 1840.)
The broadside announces that “A general meeting of the People will be held at the United States Hotel, in the village of Newburgh on Saturday Evening January 18th at 7 o’clock. Speeches will be delivered by HON. H[erman]. M[eyer]. ROMELYN, and other gentlemen.”
The Whig Party nominated William Henry Harrison very early in the election season, meeting at Harrisburg in December 1839. The speaker, Herman M. Romelyn (1792 – 1850) was a prominent Ulster County attorney practicing in Kingston, N.Y. A prominent abolitionist, Romelyn served as Sojourner Truth’s attorney in her efforts to free her son, Peter in 1828.1
Light creases, some mild foxing and toning from ink transfer, minor losses at folds not obscuring text, else very good. Matted and framed.
(EXA 4273) SOLD
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1 Margaret Washington, Sojourner Truth’s America (2011), 66. Truth mentions Romelyn in her Narrative as “Demain.”.
