Broadside, 1847.

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Broadside, 1847.

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Broadside printed by the American Party which voices its support for a Mr. Trabue, the American Party candidate for the Fayette County, Ky. Congressional District in the 1847 election. The text is filled with anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic Church propaganda.

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