[Election of 1824]: [Jackson, Andrew]:

$5,000 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

OUR COUNTRY.....HOME INDUSTRY [caption title]. A very rare, illustrated anti-Jackson broadside from the hotly-contested election of 1824, addressed to "manufacturers and mechanics." The presidential election of 1824 was a complicated four-candidate affair, with frontrunners Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams trailed by Henry Clay and William Crawford, each drawing considerable support in certain districts. In fact, the race was so close that no candidate won a sufficient majority of the electoral vote, and Adams was elected by the House of Representatives under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment (despite carrying four fewer states than Jackson), and the glow of the "Era of Good Feeling" was dimmed once and for all.Addressed to "Manufacturers and Mechanics," this broadside focuses primarily on Jackson's economic policies, specifically his anti-tariff stance. "If the Jackson Party prevail," the text proclaims, "the next Congress will be opposed to the tariff, to mechanics, manufacturers, and domestic industry....The consequence will be, that the sound of the shuttle will no longer be heard. Our stores will be filled with British and Scotch ginghams, shirtings, checks and bed-ticks; and not a place will be found for a yard of American cloth....Don't suffer yourselves to be deceived by stories that General Jackson is your friend....What will his battle of New Orleans avail you, if you are thrown out of employment and made beggars?" Even Jackson's campaign materials, they c

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