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The great American What is it? chased by Copper-heads
An anti-Lincoln satire, showing the Republican incumbent and his supporters menaced by giant "Copperheads" (Peace Democrats). After a speech on May 1, 1863, asserting that the Civil War was being fought to free blacks and enslave whites, not to save…
The old bull dog on the right track
An election year cartoon measuring Democratic candidate McClellan's military failures against the recent successes of his successor, Ulysses S. Grant. At right Grant, portrayed as a bulldog wearing a collar labeled "Lieut. General" and epaulets, sits…
An august convention
The National Union Convention met in Philadelphia in August 1866 to create a political party that would back President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction program and to elect a new Congress. Here, the convention is portrayed as a gathering of muzzled…
The copperhead plan for subjugating the South / F.B.
Cartoon shows a delegation of Copperheads entreating a Southerner to return to the Union.
Editorial cartoon, "Slow & steady wins the race" by Alfred Withal Stern
Political cartoon about the Copperheads.
American eagle on tree branch looking down at figures and snake with face (Vallandigham) representing Copperhead movement
Sketch dealing with Cooperhead movement shows eagle, snake with human head, group of people and unfinished sketches of snakes.
The soldier's song--Unionism vs. Copperheadism
This political cartoon illustrates that the true enemy to the Union were the Copperheads of the North.
A proper family re-union
A biting cartoon showing Confederate president Jefferson Davis in league with both the devil and Revolutionary War traitor Benedict Arnold. Arnold and Davis stir a cauldron of "Treason Toddy," a brew into which the devil drops miniature black slaves.…
The copperhead party - in favor of a vigorous prosecution of peace!
Editorial cartoon shows three caricatured Copperheads advancing on Columbia who holds a shield labeled "Union" and a sword. Although Clement Vallandigham was one of the leading members of the Copperhead Party, it doesn't appear that he is among those…
Theory. Practice. Effect.
An unusual, three-part wood engraving attributing John Wilkes Booth's assassination of Abraham Lincoln to the influence of the proslavery secret society, the Knights of the Golden Circle. Lincoln was shot by Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending…