(PRESIDENTS 1856 CAMPAIGN) Buck Taking the Pot

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(PRESIDENTS--1856 CAMPAIGN.) "Buck" Taking the "Pot." Lithograph, 13 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches; only a bit of very minor wear and soiling outside the plate mark, and two tastefully repaired short marginal tears. New York: [Currier, 1856]

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A satire on the presidential race. Buchanan as the winner holds four aces and a pot of Union soup, while losers Millard Fillmore and John Frémont lament their fates. Frémont, as an abolitionist, has tripped over the "rock of disunion." Reilly 1856-26.