The modern Democratic creed! : Letter of John Brodhead, Democratic candidate for City Treasurer. Philadelphia, March 7th, 1860. Mr. Jefferson Davis. My dear sir:---Can you tell me if General Larman is likely to remain much longer in Nicaragua? I should like to go to that country and help open it to civilization and niggers. I could get strong recommendations from the president's present friends in Pennsylvania for the place, were the mission vacant, and I think I would prove a live minister. I am tired of being a white slave at the North, and long for a home in the sunny South. Please let me hear from you when you have leisure. Mrs. Brodhead joins me in sending kind remembrances to Mrs. Davis and yourself.

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1863

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"The modern Democratic creed!" was a feature of the Republican campaign literature in the Philadelphia city election of 1863. This broadside was posted on the outside walls of the Union League in Philadelphia in 1863 for the upcoming election. "An anti-slavery and anti-Democrat broadside for National Union candidate Harry Bumm. Appeals to the working class. Indirectly refers to the competition for job by free black labor in the North. The broadside quotes a supposed letter from Bumm's oponent for Philadelphia city treasurer, John Breadhead, to Jefferson Davis. Broadside is said to have Southern sympathies and favor the institution of slavery over having a free working class"

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This is called The modern Democratic creed! : Letter of John Brodhead, Democratic candidate for City Treasurer. Philadelphia, March 7th, 1860. Mr. Jefferson Davis. My dear sir:---Can you tell me if General Larman is likely to remain much longer in Nicaragua? I should like to go to that country and help open it to civilization and niggers. I could get strong recommendations from the president's present friends in Pennsylvania for the place, were the mission vacant, and I think I would prove a live minister. I am tired of being a white slave at the North, and long for a home in the sunny South. Please let me hear from you when you have leisure. Mrs. Brodhead joins me in sending kind remembrances to Mrs. Davis and yourself. within the category of Book.

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Creator: Brodhead, John
Date: 1863
Publisher: [publisher not identified], [Philadelphia, Pa.]
Material Type: Book
Genre/Physical Characteristic: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Dimensions: 48 x 30 cm
Language: English
Subject: Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.; Philadelphia (Pa.). -- Office of the City Treasurer; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Politics and government.; Elections -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; 1861-1865

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Identifier: BS-1863-08-F2
Campus Location: Rare Books & Special Collections, Hesburgh Libraries
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