American Historical Ephemera and Photography

Huzza! Huzza! The Country's risin' For Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen. Illustrated letter sheet. New York: Narine & Durant, 1844. Approx. 8 1/4 x 10 3/4 in. (light toning, creasing at folds). MILGRAM HC-7 (R-2). Includes a letter from Worcester, Massachusetts, 17 December 1844 concerning personal matters and some discussion of Polk's election.

Engraved three panel black design features portraits of Henry Clay and Theodore Frelinghuysen flanking a vignette of a seaside farm with barn reading "Cold Water" and two ships near shore. Text above vignette reads, "Protection to American interests, is protection to the American Union." Dr. James Milgram's American Illustrated Letter Stationery, 1819-1899 states that the frame for this illustration was the same as used for an 1840 lettersheet for Harrison, also by Narine, and that this "is the only design that pictures Frelinghuysen. The center view is meant to show symbols of prosperity, a Whig political platform plank."

Henry Clay and Theodore Frelinghuysen were Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates in the election of 1844, representing the Whig Party. They were narrowly defeated by Democratic candidates James K. Polk and George M. Dallas.