The Chicago Platform & Candidate,c1864,McClellan,Copperheads,Davis,Draft,Wood

Title: The Chicago platform and candidate
Creator(s): Currier & Ives. Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932 , artist
Date Created/Published: [New York] 152 Nassau St. N.Y., c1864.
Summary: McClellan, written by Copperhead leader Clement Laird Vallandigham, but then asserted his support for the war in his letter accepting the nomination. Here McClellan appears as a two-faced demaogogue, standing on a rickety 'Chicago Platform.' The platform rests on the shoulders of (clockwise from left): a devil, Confederacy president Jefferson Davis, New York congressman and prominent Copperhead Fernando Wood, and Clement Laird Vallandigham. McClellan says 'Letter of Acceptance,' which reads, 'War! . . . preservation Union . . . could not Look my gallant Comrades in the face. 'Peace Democrat' says, 'All right General! niggers, Southerners. Probably drawn by Louis Maurer.
October 3, 1864.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1126
Weitenkampf, p. 143
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1864-20.
Subjects:
Chicago National Democratic Conventions.
Copperheads or Peace Democrats.
Davis, Jefferson.
Draft (military conscription) and recruitment.
Irish-Americans.
Liberty (personified).
McClellan, George B., presidential candidate.
Satan (pictured).
Vallandigham, Clement Laird.
Wood, Fernando.
Lithographs--1860-1870.
Political cartoons--1860-1870
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