Lincoln
  • 1860 Election
  •   - Harpweek
      - "Uncle Sam" making new arrangements
      - The Political Eclipse of 1860
      - Honest old Abe on the Stump. Springfield 1858. Honest old Abe on the Stump, at the ratification Meeting of Presidential Nominations. Springfield 1860.
      - Too many Cooks Spoil the broth
      - A Western Luminary: A Link on (A. Lincoln) the Lighthouse at Chicago
      - The rail candidate
      - An heir to the throne, or the next Republication candidate
      - When Washington was the Sole Standard
      - Wonderful Surgical Operation
      - A Cartoon that Foreshadowed Events
      - Columbia and Her Suitors
      - The National Game, Three Outs and One Run
      - "The impending crisis"-Or caught in the act
      - The great exhibition of 1860
      - "The irrepressible confict" Or the Republican barge in danger
      - The Republican Party going to the right House
      - The Split-Tail Democracy
      - The Last Rail Split by ‘Honest Old Abe’
      - Candidates and Platforms
      - A Political Race
      - Coming ‘Round
      - Dividing the National Map
      - Dogberry’s Last Charge
      - Letting the cat out of the bag!
      - Lincoln, Douglas and the Rail-Fence Handicap
      - Storming the Castle
      - The Great Exhibition of 1860
      - Political Quadrille Music by Dred Scott
      - Three to One You Don’t Get It, [Variation on the Popular Interpretation of the Meaning of the Pawnbroker’s Sons]
      - The Power of the Rail
      - Lincoln shows Douglas the Right Road to the White House
      - Honest Abe taking them on the half shell
      - Progressive democracy – prospect of a smash up
      - Shaky
      - Sich a gittin’ Upstairs (A Quarrel lin the Household)
      - The Political Gymnasium
      - Political Blondins Crossing Salt River
      - Coming Man’s Presidential Career
      - Et Tu Greeley
      - ‘Taking the stump’ or Stephen in search of his mother
      - A Phenomenon of Portraiture
      - Honest Old Abe and the Little Boy in Search of His Mother – A Sensation Story
      - Old Abe and His Electors
      - The Humors of the Presidential Canvass
      - The New President of the United States. From a Fugitive Sketch
      - The Perilous Voyage to the White House
      - The Presidential Pot-Pie
      - The Successful and Unsuccessful Candidates at Breakfast the Morning After
      - Castle Lincoln – No Surrender: Fort Davis – in Ruins
      - Great and astonishing trick of Old Abe, the Western juggler
      - Great Fight for the Championship
      - How Abe Lincoln Escaped the Fire-Eaters of the South and the Flames of Secession
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      - The Generous Rivals
      - Abraham, Wait on this Gentleman to the Door
      - Getting at the Root of It
      - Unheeded Advice
      - Oh! Willie, We Have Missed You!
      - Republican Campaign Conflict between Seward and Lincoln, James Watson Webb is Featured on the Bow
      - The Great Match at Baltimore
      - The Great Political Political Race
      - The Sowers
      - The Tallest Ruler on the Globe
      - Good Gracious, Abraham Lincoln
      - Great Swimming Match to Come Off on the Fourth of November
      - How Abe Lincoln Escaped the Fire-Eaters of the South and the Flames of Secession
      - Honest old Abe on the Stump
      - The Undecided Political Prize
      - Abe, The Giant Killer
      - Abe Lincoln’s Last Card; or, Rouge et Noir
      - Unheeded Advice
      - Abraham, Wait on this Gentleman to the Door
      - To the Victors Belong the Spoils – Bunker
      - Honest Old Abe and the Little Boy in Search of His Mother – A Sensation Story
      - Leading, Following, Rebelling
      - Extremes Meet
      - The Smothering of the Democratic Princes
  • President Lincoln
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  • Emancipation and Slavery
  • Black Soldiers
  • New York City
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  • 1864 Election
  • Assassination & Funeral
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  • Foreign Policy
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    Wonderful Surgical Operation

    Wonderful Surgical Operation

    Title: Wonderful Surgical Operation

    Year: 1860

    Creator: Vanity Fair

    Description: This cartoon appeared in Vanity Fair on the eve of the 1860 presidential election. It depicts Abraham Lincoln ready to separate surgically James Gordon Bennett, the Democratic newspaper editor, from James Buchanan, the outgoing president. At the time, Bennett was a major supporter of Buchanan and the Democratic party and therefore opposed the election of Lincoln. Bennett and Buchanan are portrayed as the famous conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker. The original "Siamese Twins," Chang and Eng were born in Siam (1811), toured America and Europe as a human novelty act, and were eventually hired by the 19th-century showman, P. T. Barnum. The Secret Service Fund may refer to corruption uncovered by the Covode investigation, a Congressional inquiry that found substantial evidence of influence-peddling and other wrongdoing in the Buchanan administration. The portrait on the wall depicts Southern radical Roger Pryor of Virginia as Brutus. March 1860 had seen the end of a tumultuous Congressional session in which the House had taken two months to elect a speaker, most members carried guns on the floor, and verbal barbs flew back and forth with alacrity. During that time Congressman Pryor had challenged Congressman John Potter of Wisconsin to a duel. When the latter chose Bowie knives as the dueling weapon (note the knife on the wall), Pryor rejected it as too barbaric and the duel did not occur.

    URL: http://elections.harpweek.com/1860/cartoon-1860-Medium.asp?UniqueID=20&Year=1860

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