(PRESIDENTS 1860 CAMPAIGN) Currier Ives The Impending Cris

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(PRESIDENTS--1860 CAMPAIGN.) Currier & Ives. "The Impending Crisis"--or, Caught in the Act. Lithograph, 12 1/2 x 18 inches; minor wear including two 1/2-inch closed tears on top edge and 2-inch fold in upper right corner, light toning and offsetting, figures identified with early pencil captions. New York, 1860

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Republican candidate William Seward, recently defeated by Lincoln, has fallen off a pier, calling out "Oh, I'm going down for the last time." 3 New York newspaper editors squabble at the scene. Daily News editor Henry J. Raymond (as a policeman) and Courier editor James Watson Webb (as a newsboy) accuse Tribune editor Horace Greeley of having pushed him over the edge. Reilly 1860-26.