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Abraham Lincoln Civil War Caricature "MRS. NORTH AND HER ATTORNEY" ‘‘You see, Mr. Lincoln, we have failed utterly in our course of action. I want peace, and so, if you cannot effect an amicable arrangement I must put the case in other hands.”
This interesting caricature pictures Abraham Lincoln as an attorney with law books, documents and a map of the Unites States of America on the wall. The message of the cartoon is that public sentiment was in favor of the Democratic Party platform which called for peace even at the price of conceding the continuation of slavery. As Wilson below and history instruct, the Punch editors were wrong and Lincoln won the Presidential election shortly after this cartoon was published.
This is one of the few caricatures of Abraham Lincoln as President that pictures him as an attorney, his former profession before becoming President of the United States. This would be an ideal gift for an attorney, law student or Lincoln collector. Price: $85
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