"Jackson ticket" with Hickory tree motto, Baltimore (1828)

Small printed election ticket headed JACKSON TICKET over a woodcut tree and the couplet "Firm united let us be, Rallying round our Hickory tree", with two names for the Assembly. The rally verse ('Firm united let us be, Rallying round') is the bandwagon tell; the transfer tell is the hickory tree, which stands for Jackson's nickname Old Hickory and lends the symbol's associations to the ticket. The scan includes the library's ruler.

Date: 1828
Period: Pre-1914
Made by: Jackson (Democratic) campaign, Maryland ticket for John V. L. McMahon and George H. Steuart
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Leaflet
Issuer type: Party
Regime: John Quincy Adams Administration
Leader: John Quincy Adams
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Mobilize or secure compliance
Theme: Elections and party politics
Event: 1828 US Election
Techniques: Bandwagon Transfer
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain: published 1828, US; LOC: "No known restrictions on publication."
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Broadside Collection, portfolio 192, no. 12; LC-USZ61-1453

Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

JACKSON TICKET.

[woodcut of a tree]

Firm united let us be,
Rallying round our Hickory tree."

For the Assembly.
JOHN V. L. McMAHON,
GEORGE H. STEUART.

A small mark after "tree." is read as a closing quotation mark. Ruler and library scale are not part of the object's text.