[Slavery & Free Labor — 1856 Election Propaganda.] The Real Issue. Facts for Northern Laboring Men. The New “Democratic” Doctrine.

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[Slavery & Free Labor — 1856 Election Propaganda.]

The Real Issue. Facts for Northern Laboring Men. The New “Democratic” Doctrine. Slavery Not to Be Confined to the Negro Race, but to Be Made the Universal Condition of the Laboring Classes of Society. Shall Free Labor or Slave Labor Prevail?

[No imprint, ca. 1856.]

The reverse quotes Democratic newspapers and speeches by Southern senators and pro-slavery advocates, juxtaposed with exhortations to “working men of the North” to resist the “oligarchy” by voting for John C. Frémont, the first Republican presidential nominee. The piece explicitly links racial slavery with economic enslavement of white workers, invoking the specter of “white slaves,” “wage servitude,” and the moral collapse of a society built on coerced labor.

Broadsheet, double-sided, approx. 12 × 6 inches, printed in two columns; unrecorded printer, but stylistically matching the Free Soil / Republican handbills of the 1856 presidential election. Moderate toning, shallow edge wear and creasing, faint early fold lines. Note that the text mentions Maine.