I took my Civil War history students to the Woodson Research Center today, and the archivists had a surprise waiting for us. Recently they rediscovered an 1844 Henry Clay presidential campaign banner hiding in the vault, and it appears to be unique!

An 1844 presidential hand-lettered silk campaign banner for Henry Clay and Theodore Frelinghuysen with the lines of a poem that begins Rouse freemen or sleep forever

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