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"The Rail Candidate", anti-Republican political caricature published by Currier and Ives in September 1860, showing Abraham Lincoln being carried on a fence-rail labeled "REPUBLICAN PLATFORM" by a black man and Horace Greeley (editor of the New York Tribune), alluding to Lincoln's nickname of the "rail-splitter".
- Horace Greeley
- "We can prove that you have split rails, & that will ensure your election to the Presidency"
- Abraham Lincoln
- "It is true I have split Rails, but I begin to feel as if this rail would split me, it's the hardest stick I ever straddled."
- Black man
- "Dis Nigger strong and willin, but it's awful hard work to carry Old Massa Abe on nothing but dis 'ere rail!!"
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Created/Published: New York : Currier & Ives, c1860. |
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For scholarly discussion, see book Lincoln in Caricature by Rufus Rockwell Wilson. |
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Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932 |
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