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Box OS0014

 Container

Contains 2 Collections and/or Records:

Practical Illustration of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1851

 Item — Box: OS0014, Folder: 4270.01
Scope and Contents Description from the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008661534/A satire on the antagonism between Northern abolitionists on the one hand, and Secretary of State Daniel Webster and other supporters of enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Here abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (left) holds a slave woman in one arm and points a pistol toward a burly slave catcher mounted on the back of Daniel Webster. The slave catcher, wielding a noose and manacles,...
Dates: 1851

Progressive Democracy-Prospect of a Smash Up, 1860

 Item — Box: OS0014, Folder: 4270.01
Scope and Contents Description from the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003674585/Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln and running mate Hannibal Hamlin are shown about to destroy a Democratic party paralyzed by internal dissension. The Republicans ride a locomotive named "Equal Rights" toward a crossing where the wagon "Democratic Platform," hitched to two opposing teams, is stalled on the track. The two teams try to pull the wagon in opposite directions. Horses with the heads...
Dates: 1860