TO THE VOTERS OF THE 10th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: / [followed by three columns of dense text]. Signed in type at the end "A Free Voter".
NP [Salisbury or Raleigh, NC?]: np, nd [1840, though some references ascribe 1839]. First edition. Printed broadside, two copies on one sheet, each 9 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches, the title printed bold (somewhat faded). Long indictment, pointing out the deficiencies of a candidate. OCLC: "Opposing the election of Abraham Rencher for Congress from North Carolina; Rencher, opposed here by John Worth, was elected in 1840 [as a Whig] after having served previously from 1829-1839 [as a Democrat]." For a cogent digest of Rencher's life and career, see his entry in NCPedia online. Hummel 1506 (North Carolina). OCLC locates four copies of the broadside, with no mention of a second on the same sheet (State Library of N.C., North Carolina, American Antiquarian Society, Clements). Foxed, some light inking, but all legible. Good copies in their original state, two examples printed on one large sheet, versos blank. (10332). Item #63840
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