CANNON, Newton)

ADDRESS [caption title]

(Nashville, TN): Executive office, May, 1839. First edition. 4to (28 cm). (2) pp. Printed broadsheet address to “Fellow-Citizens of Tennessee, announcing his candidacy for re-election as Governor of Tenness, while explaining that the duties of the office will keep him from attending a statewide series of appearances with his opponent [James K. Polk]: “The attempt to make the tour of the State, might, and I fear would, result in serious injury to the interests of the people, as well as the inconveniences to which absence of the Executive would subject those who have immediate business with his department.” The balance of this two-page address deals with Cannon’s performance as governor, the first Whig to hold the office, especially emphasizing his opposition to the Jackson and Van Buren policies that brought about the Panic of 1837. Cannon was unable to keep his word on the campaigning, however, and “[Newton and Polk] undertook a joint canvass of the state, but Cannon was no match for Polk, whose ability as a stump speaker and powers of ridicule compelled the slower, less magnetic Cannon to refuse to continue to speak from the same platform … Cannon was defeated and his public career ended” (DAB). Not in American Imprints or Allen Tennessee Imprints, 1791-1875. Not recorded on OCLC. Old folds, with some breaks, resulting in the loss of a few letters not affecting the sense of the sentences involved, and a poor repair along one split obscuring a half dozen words. Good copy of an apparently unrecorded Tennessee imprint. Item #66486

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