(Ulysses S. GRANT) Broadside, 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (sight), “Republican Meeting at LEWES” (Milford, Del.: News and Advertiser, print, 1872). Signed in type “CHARLES F. RICHARDS, Chairman“.
An impassioned call for “A MASS MEETING OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY… On Thursday, October 17th, 1872” featuring speeches by Nathaniel B. Smithers1, Col. Jacob Moore2, Maj. James R. Lofland3, and George V. Massey.
The broadside warns of the organizational prowess of their Democratic opponents who have “maintained a compact organization, and battled bravely and consistently or the principles if professed—thereby commanding the respect of even those most hostile to its doctrines. But now, despairing of success in an honorable warfare, it seeks it by indirection, and its trading managers for the spoils of office have ‘sold out’ the honest masses, and attempted to deliver them into the hands of life-long enemies—the sore-headed Republicans, led by Horace Greeley.” While Sussex and New Castle Counties went for Grant, Kent County swung toward Greeley.
Several tears and losses at folds, some of which have been restored with ink, mounted to a board and framed. Overall very good. Not examined out of frame.
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1 Smithers (1818–1896) served one term representing Delaware in Congress from 1863 to 1865 during which he helped pass a law outlawing the purchase of relief from the draft which enabled many wealthy men to avoid the draft during the Civil War.
2 Moore served as a captain of “B” Company in the 6th Delaware and in June 1863 was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.
3 James Rush Lofland (d. 1894) was an officer in the paymaster department from 1863 to 1866.
