Echoes of political events past:
Second Declaration of Independence, Or Grand Loco Foco Federal Glorification! To Come Off at the Court House, in the Village of Syracuse, on Saturday, the 18th Day of July, A.D. 1840.
A “Loco Foco” event in New York, five years after an advertisement for a new form of matchstick, the “Loco Foco” (see image above). The “Loco-Focos” is what the establishment press of New York derisively dubbed members of the Equal Rights Party in 1835, after the insiders turned off the gas, sending Tammany Hall into darkness, and the upstart libertarians lit candles with their new Loco Foco matches and proceeded with electing a new slate of Democratic Party officers.
