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Image Title: Political Blondins Crossing Salt River, 1860

Creator: Currier & Ives.,

Date: 1860

Summary: Print shows Abraham Lincoln balancing on a rail resting on a rock labeled "Abolition Rock" on the "North" shore of a "Salt River"; Lincoln is about to step onto the "South" shore, but Horace Greeley, labeled "Tribune", has fallen off the other end of the rail, which will upset Lincoln before he reaches shore, he states "Confound Greeley! he told me that it was not necessary for this end of my rail to rest on anything, as long as he sat on the other end, and I believed, and am lost!" Other presidential candidates, Stephen A. Douglas and John C. Breckinridge are walking tightropes to cross from the North to the South. Douglas is falling off a rope labeled "Non Intervention"; his uneven balance pole, labeled "Squatter Government" has thrown him off balance. Breckinridge is riding on the shoulders of Joseph Lane who is walking a rope labeled "Slavery Extension". Candidates John Bell and Edward Everett of the Constitutional Union Party are standing on a bridge labeled "Constitutio[n]al Bridge"; Everett states "Built by Washington, Jefferson and the Patriots of 76 this bridge is the only structure that connects these two shores in an indissoluble bond of union, and woe be to the man who attempts to undermine it."

Subjects: Aerialists--1860
Bell, John,--1796-1869
Breckinridge, John C.--(John Cabell),--1821-1875
Bridges--1860
Constitutional Union Party (U.S.)
Douglas, Stephen A.--(Stephen Arnold),--1813-1861
Everett, Edward,--1794-1865
Greeley, Horace,--1811-1872
Lane, Joseph,--1801-1881
Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865
Political platforms--1860
Presidential elections--United States--1860
Rivers--1860

Original Media: Lithograph

Collections: Popular Graphic Arts

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