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Shall it come to that?
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Lincoln carrying George McClellan in a wheelbarrow marked ARMY OF THE POTOMAC down the road to Richmond, Virginia.
[Dividing the National Map]
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Lincoln and Stephen Douglas struggle to control the northern and western states while John C. Breckinridge claims the south and John Bell attempts to glue the map back together.
JOHNNY BULL and the ALEXANDRIANS
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Text from left side to right:John Bull: I must have all your Flour---All your Tobacco---All your Provisions---All your ships---All your Merchindize---Every thing except your Porter and Perry keep them out of my sight, I…
PROPERTY PROTECTED a la Francoise
Text from left side to right:First Directeur: We infringe-Dat be ver good! Indeed Madame Amerique you be ver pretty WOMAN and we should like to give you the hug Fraternale, Begar we do not want to quarrel with you, as a proof, my Brother the grand…
A POLITICAL RACE
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Text from left to right: John Bell: Bless my soul I give up. John C. Breckinridge: That long legged Abolitionist is getting ahead of us after all. Stephen Douglas: I never run so in my life.
Bruin Become MEDIATOR or Negociation for PEACE
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Text from left to right: John Bull: Pray Mr Bruin try if you can make up this little Difference between us-The Wasps and Hornets have Stung me so hard I wish I had never disturbed their Nests. Columbia: I thank you Mr…
BREAKING THAT "BACKBONE"
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Text from left to right: Poster: J. DAVIS' SHOW. GREAT SOUTHERN GYASCUTIS. STIFFEST BACK-BONE EVER GROWN. CANT BE BROKEN. Poster: ONLY 10 000 MEN AND $1000 000 IN TREASURE PER CRACK. STEP UP AND TRY YOUR MUSCLE. Figures…
[Lincoln as a Monkey, holding a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation]
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The BLOODY MASSACRE Perpetrated in King Street, BOSTON on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th REG
Text of the bottom: Unhappy BOSTON! see thy Sons deplore, Thy hallowe'd Walks besmear'd with guiltless Gore: While faithless --- and his savage Bands, With murd'rous Rancour stretch their bloody Hands; Like fierce Barbarians grinning o'er their Prey,…
Lincoln Writing the Emancipation Proclamation
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In this lithograph, Lincoln's foot rests on a bound copy of the Constitution and the devil's inkpot furnishes ink for his writing. On the wall hangs a portrait of John Brown, labeled "St. Ossawotomie," and a depiction of…