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Lot Description

[POLITICS]. The Chicago Platform.

Lithograph, ca 1864, image 13 x 9 in. (visible 15 1/8 x 11 1/2 in.), on wove paper, minor toning, very occasional spotting, framed to 23 1/4 x 19 1/4 in.

A political cartoon critical of the so-called "Chicago Platform" of the Democratic Party who promised a quick end to the war in the 1864 elections. Here, major figures of the movement, including Copperhead Clement Vallandingham, anti-abolitionist Fernando Wood, and Peace Democrat Horatio Seymour are depicted as horses pulling the cart with Vice President nominee and close Vallandigham ally George H. Pendleton driving the cart with a Confederate flag. The presidential nominee George McClellan brandishing a sword at the back. Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Confederate enablers look on. RARE: only 1 other copy located at time of cataloging. Reilly, 1864-21.

Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents

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