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Photo, Print, Drawing Re-union on the Secesh-Democratic plan

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Title

  • Re-union on the Secesh-Democratic plan

Summary

  • A cynical view of Democratic efforts to pursue a negotiated end to the secession of the Confederate states. Here President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis confronts Brother Jonathan, who stumbles under the enormous burden of a bundle marked "Confederate Debt $650,000,000" and "Federal Debt $1500,000,000" and is further weighed down by the figure of a black man in chains. Davis: "Well Jonathan, if you agree to bear all the expenses of the war, and on top of that let me impose on you the old burden of slavery, while I hold the chain and the whip, I'll put up my weapons for a while and we'll have the 'Union as it was' only a great deal more so." Davis is dressed in a long coat and wide-brimmed hat, with pistols in his pockets. He holds a whip and a chain attached to shackles about the Negro's neck. Jonathan: "Anything my 'erring brother' for the sake of getting our party once more into power; although with this burden to carry the path of peace 'will be a hard road to travel." Source: Reilly.

Names

  • Currier & Ives.

Created / Published

  • [New York] : Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St. N.Y., [1862]

Headings

  • -  Davis, Jefferson,--1808-1889
  • -  Brother Jonathan (Nickname)--1860-1870
  • -  Slavery--1860-1870
  • -  Public debt--1860-1870
  • -  Peace negotiations--1860-1870
  • -  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Economic & industrial aspects

Format Headings

  • Lithographs--1860-1870.
  • Political cartoons--1860-1870.

Genre

  • Political cartoons--1860-1870
  • Lithographs--1860-1870

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Publication date based on copyright statement on item.
  • -  The Library's impression was deposited for copyright by Currier & Ives on October 17, 1862.
  • -  Inscribed in ink on lower right: 46 1/2 Oct. 17, 1862.
  • -  A barely ledgible copyright stamp appears on lower right corner.
  • -  Stamped on lower left: Copyright Library May 12 1863.
  • -  Inscribed in pencil on bottom left: 22871.
  • -  Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5569
  • -  Weitenkampf, p. 134
  • -  Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
  • -  Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1862-10.

Medium

  • 1 print on card stock : lithograph ; sheet 33 x 43.2 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PGA - Currier & Ives--Re-union ... (A size) [P&P]

Source Collection

  • Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress)

Repository

Digital Id

  • pga 09727 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.09729
  • cph 3a38603 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a38603

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2001703985

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-pga-09727 (digital file from original print) LC-USZ62-38250 (b&w film copy neg.)

Rights Advisory

  • No known restrictions on publication.

Online Format

  • image

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