[American Newspapers] One of the Final Large Electoral Victories by the Declining Whig Party, Printing a Large and Impressive Victory Display

Albany Journal
Albany: Ten Eyck & Co., November 11, 1853. Vol. 24, No. 2473. Printed newspaper. Folio. 4 pp. Contemporary ownership signature at top of front-page; scattered spotting; wear along edges, including five-inch closed tear in bottom corner of first sheet.

The imposing full-page display on the third page announces, "Whig State Ticket / Triumphantly Elected! / Whig Canal Board! / Whig Senate! Whig Assembly!!" all surrounding an American Eagle with a banner in its beak proclaiming "The Whig Banner Again Floats Over The Empire State!!". Despite the triumphant Whig sweep in the 1853 state election as evidenced here, on a national level the party was in its final precipitous decline. Already fracturing due to the question of slavery’s expansion into the western territories, with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act the following year the Whig party would collapse. From its ashes would emerge the third-party system and, in the Spring of 1854, the ascendant Republican Party.

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How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X

[American Newspapers] One of the Final Large Electoral Victories by the Declining Whig Party, Printing a Large and Impressive Victory Display

How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X

[American Newspapers] One of the Final Large Electoral Victories by the Declining Whig Party, Printing a Large and Impressive Victory Display

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