Rail Candidate political cartoon, circa 1860
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1860Image Description:
Republican nominee Abraham Lincoln is shown straddling the rail or more controversially known as the antislavery plank being supported by Horace Greeley, an abolitionist editor of the New York Tribune. In front is a black man as they carry Lincoln on the "Republican Platform."A lithograph probably by Louis Maurer, published by Currier & Ives.