Source: Broadside from the Election of 1796.

FELLOW CITIZENS!

The first concern of Freemen, calls you forth into action. Pennsylvania was never yet found wanting when Liberty was at stake; she cannot then be indifferent when the question is, Who hall be President of the United States? The citizen who now holds the office of President, has publicly made known to his fellow citizens that he declines to serve in it again. Two candidates are offered to your choice, as his successor; THOMAS JEFFERSON of Virginia, and JOHN ADAMS of New England. No other candidate is proposed, you cannot therefore mistake between them. THOMAS JEFFERSON is the man who was your late Secretary of State, and Minister of the United States to the French nation; JOHN ADAMS is the man who is now Vice President of the United States, and was late the Minister to the king of Great Britain. THOMAS JEFFERSON is a firm REPUBLICAN, JOHN ADAMS is an avowed MONARCHIST. . . .

Thomas Jefferson first drew the declaration of American independence; he first framed the sacred political sentence that all men are born equal. John Adams says this is all a farce and a falsehood; that some men should be born Kings, and some should be born Nobles. Which of these, freemen of Pennsylvania, will you have for your President? Will you, by your votes, contribute to make the avowed friend of monarchy, President? or will you, by neglectfully staying at home, permit others to saddle you with Political Slavery? Adams has Sons who might aim to succeed their father; Jefferson like Washington, has no Son. Adams is a fond admirer of the British Constitution, and says it is the first wonder of the world. Jefferson likes better our Federal Constitution, and thinks the British full of deformity, corruption and wickedness. Once more, fellow citizens! Choose ye between those two, which you will have for President, Jefferson or Adams. Remember Friday the fourth of November; attend your elections on that day; put in your tickets for fifteen good REPUBLICANS, and let the watch word be LIBERTY and INDEPENDENCE!