Title
The true issue or That's what's the matter by Currier & Ives
Caption
The true issue or 'That's what's the matter 'by Currier & Ives. c1864. In a rare pro-Democrat cartoon presidential aspirant George Brinton McClellan is portrayed as the intermediary between Abraham Lincoln and Confederacy president Jefferson Davis. Gen. McClellan is in the centre acting as a go-between in a tug-of-war over a 'Map of the United States' engaged in by Lincoln (left) and Davis. He holds the two men by their lapels and asserts, 'The Union must be preserved at all hazards!' Lincoln tugs at the northern side of the map, saying, 'No peace without abolition.' Davis pulls at the southern portion, advocating, 'No peace without Separation!!'
Date
1864
Credit line
Photo12/Ann Ronan Picture Library
Reference
ARP18A00_415
License type
Rights managed
Available size
45,5Mb (3,3Mb) / 15,3in x 11,5in / 4603 x 3457 (300dpi)