Union and Liberty!

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Union and liberty! And union and slavery!

LOC Summary

An anti-McClellan broadside, contrasting Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln's advocacy of equality and free labor in the North to Democratic opponent McClellan's alleged support of the Southern slave system. The comparison is made in two scenes, "Union and Liberty" (left) and "Union and Slavery" (right). In the first, Lincoln shakes the hand of a bearded man wearing a square paper labor cap, while black and white school children issue from a schoolhouse flying the American flag in the background. On the right McClellan, in military uniform, shakes the hand of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, as a slave auction takes place behind them.

LOC Contributor Names

Siebert, Martin W., b. 1810 or 11.

LOC Created/Published

N.Y. : Published by M.W. Siebert, 1864.

LOC Standardized Date

1864

LOC Subject Headings

Davis, Jefferson,--1808-1889
- Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865
- McClellan, George B.--(George Brinton),--1826-1885
- African Americans--Education--1860-1870
- African Americans--1860-1870
- Employment--1860-1870
- Presidential elections--United States--1860-1870
- Slavery--1860-1870

LOC Notes

Published by M.W. Siebert, Printer, 28 Centre Street, Corner Reade, N.Y.
- Title appears as it is written on the item.
- Lorant, p. 264.
- Weitenkampf, p. 143.
- Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
- Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1864-27.

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1864

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283

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