An heir to the throne,or the next Republican candidate

Title: An heir to the throne, or the next Republican candidate
Creator(s): Currier & Ives.,
Related Names:
Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932 , artist
Date Created/Published: New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1860.
Summary: The Republicans' purported support of Negro rights is taken to an extreme here. Editor Horace Greeley (left) and candidate Abraham Lincoln (resting his elbow on a rail at right) stand on either side of a short black man holding a spear. The latter is the deformed African man recently featured at P.T. Barnum's Museum on Broadway as the 'What-is-it.' (A poster for this attraction appears on the wall behind.) Greeley says, 'Gentlemen allow me to introduce to you, this illustrious individual in whom you will find combined, all the graces, and virtues of Black Republicanism, and whom we propose to run as our next Candidate for the Presidency.' Lincoln muses, 'How fortunate! that this intellectual and noble creature should have been discovered just at this time, to prove to the world the superiority of the Colored over the Anglo Saxon race, he will be a worthy successor to carry out the policy which I shall inaugurate.' The black man wonders, 'What, can dey be?'
Notes:
Probably drawn by Louis Maurer.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3001
Weitenkampf, p. 122
The Lincoln Image, p. 39
Wilson, pp. 64-65
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1860-33.
Subjects:
African Americans (portrayed).
Barnum, Phineas T.
Greeley, Horace, support of Lincoln's presidential candidacy.
Lincoln, Abraham, presidential candidate.
Lithographs--1860-1870.
Political cartoons--1860-1870.
Bookmark /2003674574/
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