(CIVIL WAR PRINTS) The Grave of the Union or Major Jack Dow

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(CIVIL WAR--PRINTS.) The Grave of the Union, or Major Jack Downing's Dream. Lithograph, 18 x 22 1/4 inches; several repaired closed tears, two extending into image area, moderate creasing and soiling, laid down on paper. New York: Bromley & Co., 1864

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A bitter anti-Lincoln satire, attacking his administration's abuse of the Constitution. Horace Greeley and Charles Sumner are shown laying the Constitution's casket into a grave, with Greeley gloating "I guess we'll bury it so deep that it will never get up again." Lincoln asks "Chase, will it stay down?" to which treasury secretary Salmon P. Chase answers, "My God, it must stay down, or we shall all go up!" Other caskets marked "Free speech," "Habeas corpus," and "Union" await burial. First state, without the headline "Political caricature. No. 1." Reilly 1864-37.