Mechanics of New York, read the heart-rending truth! Sixty American citizens enslaved--ten beheaded and hung by the nefarious scheme of Miranda, the would-be king of America ... These supporters of the American ticket are charged with being concerned in the Miranda expedition ... After dispasionately reading the above true extract--will you--can you support the Tory ticket; the most of whom are the implacable enemies of the labouring mechanic and poor man? - Mechanic (s.n, 1807)
Reference to "a memorial to Congress" suggests that this election broadside was printed in 1807. The twenty members of the ill-fated Miranda Expedition imprisoned at Carthagena signed the petition to Congress on Dec. 30, 1806. See Sherman, John H. A general account of Miranda's Expedition, 1808, p. 95-98. - Shaw & Shoemaker, 10841. - Signed: A mechanic