Mar 18, 2010 - Sale 2207

Sale 2207 - Lot 196

Price Realized: $ 840
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(PRESIDENTS--1864 CAMPAIGN.) The Chicago Platform and Candidate: A War Candidate on a Peace Platform. Lithograph, 13 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches; minor toning and mount remnants. New York: Currier & Ives, 1864
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Lincoln's opponent McClellan is depicted as a two-faced liar on a rickety platform supported by Jefferson Davis, "Jeff's friend" Satan, and other traitors, while a thuggish Irish-American "Peace Democrat" cheers them on: "All right Gineral! If yere in favor of resistin the draft, killing the Nagurs, and pace wid the Southerners, I'll knock any man on the head that'll vote aginye." Peters 1621; Reilly 1864-20.