![[3734478] (Please Read and Circulate.) The Presidency – Winfield Scott – Franklin Pierce; Their Qualifications and Fitness for High Office. [caption title]. Winfeld Scott.](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734478.jpg?auto=webp&v=1731967090)
(Please Read and Circulate.) The Presidency – Winfield Scott – Franklin Pierce; Their Qualifications and Fitness for High Office. [caption title]
“Whose opinions are generous, comprehensive, and truly national?”
A scarce 1852 campaign pamphlet endorsing the Whig candidate, General Winfield Scott, over Democrat Franklin Pierce. The 16-page document critiques Pierce’s qualifications, presenting him as unfit compared to Scott, a distinguished Mexican War hero and the final presidential candidate of the Whig Party.
This copy retains its original free-franked envelope, marked “Free P. Spruance M.C.”—a reference to Delaware Senator and Whig Presley Spruance (1785–1863), whose franking privileges allowed free postal transmission. To be found with its original contents, this envelope is a rare survival, an artifact documenting one method of mid-19th-century campaign messaging.
Description: (Please Read and Circulate.) The Presidency – Winfield Scott – Franklin Pierce; Their Qualifications and Fitness for High Office. [caption title]
[Washington, D.C. towers, Printer. Price $1 00 per hundred. 1852]. 16pp, printed in double columns. Folded per postal transmittal, light staining to margins, light foxing; very good.
[3734478]Sabin 65341.
Price: $150.00