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Looks like Franklin Pierce will be President...
Looks like Franklin Pierce will be President...
Item # 693460
November 05, 1852
THE DAILY UNION, Washington, D.C., Nov. 5, 1852 Page two has nearly two columns taken up with: "The Great Result" being the 1852 Presidential election.
The report begins: "The annihilation of the Scott Whig party before the aroused intelligence, patriotism, and public virtue of the people of the U.S..." with much more editorial commentary very much biased towards the presumed election of Franklin Pierce. Included is a state-by-state report on how the results are coming in. The text ends with "California" and: "All our advices justify the opinion that this state will give the democratic candidates for President and Vice President a triumphant majority. Some four weeks must elapse before anything can be heard from the Pacific...we are quite confident General Scott will receive the electoral votes of but two states--Vermont and Massachusetts--being 18--leaving 29 states for Pierce and King, casting 287 electoral votes."
Plus additional reports are headed: "The Election & Its Result" "The Election" and: "Result of the Presidential Election".
Great to have these reports in a newspaper from the nation's capital.
Four pages, archival strengthening at the spine, good condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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