The rail candidate; Currier & Ives.; Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932 , artist; New York : Currier & Ives, c1860.; 1 print on wove paper : lithograph : (image) 27 x 36 cm.; The antislavery plank was a controversial feature of the 1860 Republican platform. Here Republican nominee Abraham Lincoln is shown uncomfortably straddling a rail--a dual allusion to the platform and to Lincoln's backwoods origins--carried by a black man and abolitionist editor of the New York "Tribune" Horace Greeley (right). Lincoln says, "It is true I have split Rails, but I begin to feel as if "this" rail would split me, it's the hardest stick I ever straddled." The black man complains, "Dis Nigger strong and willin' but its awful hard work to carry Old Massa Abe on nothing but dis ere rail!!" One of Lincoln's foremost supporters in the Northeast, Greeley here assures him, "We can prove that you have split rails & that will ensure your election to the Presidency."
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The rail candidate; Currier & Ives.; Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932 , artist; New York : Currier & Ives, c1860.; 1 print on wove paper : lithograph : (image) 27 x 36 cm.; The antislavery plank was a controversial feature of the 1860 Republican platform. Here Republican nominee Abraham Lincoln is shown uncomfortably straddling a rail--a dual allusion to the platform and to Lincoln's backwoods origins--carried by a black man and abolitionist editor of the New York "Tribune" Horace Greeley (right). Lincoln says, "It is true I have split Rails, but I begin to feel as if "this" rail would split me, it's the hardest stick I ever straddled." The black man complains, "Dis Nigger strong and willin' but its awful hard work to carry Old Massa Abe on nothing but dis ere rail!!" One of Lincoln's foremost supporters in the Northeast, Greeley here assures him, "We can prove that you have split rails & that will ensure your election to the Presidency."

Date

1860

Crédit

Photo12/Liszt Collection/Quint Lox Limited

Notre référence

LZT16A19_436

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

70,4Mo (6,0Mo) / 50,1cm x 35,2cm / 5921 x 4155 (300dpi)

Mots clés

rail candidate Currier & Ives Maurer Louis 1832-1932 artist New York Currier & Ives c1860 print wove paper lithograph image 27 x 36 cm antislavery plank controversial feature 1860 Republican platform. Here Republican nominee Abraham Lincol shown uncomfortably straddling rail-- dual allusion platform Lincoln's backwoods origins--carried black man abolitionist editor New York Tribune Horace Greeley Lincoln Presidency

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