Interesting original campaign leaflet issued by the National Union Committee prior to the 1864 presidential election, one page both sides, 8 x 11.25, September 9, 1864. Headed "The Presidential Election: Appeal of the National Union Committee to the People of the United States," the dramatic text reads, in small part: "The great Rebellion, which for more than three years has wrapped the nation in the flames of civil war, draws near its crisis. Its armies have been beaten, its territory has been conquered, the forts and posts which it treacherously seized have been occupied and held by the soldiers of the Republic, its foreign allies have been detached from its support, and its hostile arm, paralyzed by exhaustion and discouraged by defeat, is upheld solely by the hope of political victories to be achieved by its allies in the Presidential election of November next. If the People in that election sustain the Government, if they reassert its just authority and reaffirm their purpose to maintain it by saw so long as was assails it, the Rebellion will speedily end. If they falter in this determination, or leave any room for doubt on this vital point, the rebels will take fresh courage and prolong the contest. Every utterance of their organs and their agents affirms and confirms this position. Every rebel in arms and every rebel in office—every rebel organ in the rebel States or in foreign lands—every hater of Democratic Freedom and the Rights of Man, longs and labors for the overthrow of the Administration and the expulsion of Abraham Lincoln from the presidential chair." In very good to fine condition, with some creasing, light staining, and short edge tears.
