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Letting the Cat out of the Bag!!

Permanent ID:
11564
Language:
English
Date:
1860 – 1861
Image Description:
Radical antislavery senator Charles Sumner releases a snarling cat, labeled "Spirit of Discord," from the "Republican Bag." Horace Greeley, Abraham Lincoln, Henry J. Raymond, and William H. Seward, worried that perceived Republican opposition to slavery will doom Lincoln's hopes for the presidential election of 1860, express alarm.
Publisher:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Collection:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania cartoons and caricatures collection
Related People or Organizations:
Louis Maurer, 1832-1932 (artist)
Newhouse, Sarah (Transcribed by)
Moloshok, Rachel (Transcribed by)
Newhouse, Sarah (Encoded by)
Dorman, Dana (Encoded by)
Moloshok, Rachel (Encoded by)
Historical Society of Pennsylvania (repository)
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865 (depicted)
William Henry Seward, 1801-1872 (depicted)
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 (depicted)
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 (depicted)
Raymond, Henry J. (Henry Jarvis), 1820-1869 (depicted)
Currier & Ives (publisher)