Breaking that Backbone,American Civil War,1862,Emancipation Proclamation,Lincoln

Title: Breaking that 'backbone'
Creator(s): Currier & Ives.,
Related Names:
Day, Benjamin Henry, 1838-1916 , artist
Date Created/Published: [New York] : Pub'd. by Currier & Ives, Nassau St., N.Y. [1862 or 1863]
Summary: A figurative commentary on Northern efforts to end the rebellion during the early years of the Civil War. Confederate President Jefferson Davis (far left) displays 'the Great Southern Gyascutis,' a dog-like monster with long fangs and an enlarged spine, the 'stiffest Back-Bone ever grown.' The beast is labeled 'Rebellion.' Davis holds the animal on a chain as several figures prepare to attack it with large sledgehammers. From left to right, they are: Union generals Henry W. Halleck and George B. McClellan, who swing in unison hammers marked 'Skill' and 'Strategy,' respectively; and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, who waits his turn holding a hammer labeled 'Draft.' On the far right waits President Lincoln, with the ax 'Emancipation Proclamation' over his shoulder. Stanton: 'Halleck may use his skill and Mac his strategy, but this draft will do the business.' Lincoln: 'You can try him with that, but I'm afraid this axe of mine is the only thing that will fetch him.' At left, behind the group, sits a dejected, bespectacled man holding a tiny hammer labeled 'Compromise.' Further left, on a wall behind Jefferson Davis, hangs a poster saying 'Only 10,000 men and $1000,000 in Treasure per Crack. Step up and Try your Muscle.'
Notes:
Signed: BDay del. [Benjamin H. Day, Jr.]
Printed late 1862 or early 1863.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 731
Weitenkampf, p. 135
Wilson, p. 188-189
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1862-8.
Subjects:
Davis, Jefferson.
Draft (military conscription) and recruitment.
Emancipation Proclamation.
Halleck, Henry W.
Lincoln, Abraham, presidency.
McClellan, George B.
Stanton, Edwin M.
Lithographs--1860-1870.
Political cartoons--1860-1870.
Bookmark /2003674578/
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