Hon. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, National Democratic Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame issued precisely as the Union

issued precisely as the Union began to fray

basement bars

the whole troubled procession of expansion and equivocation rendered in respectful parlor portraiture

and dates marshaled to insist that emancipation was not an ending but a ledger still being kept

Hon. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, National Democratic Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame issued precisely as the UnionHon. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, National Democratic Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860 a campaign portrait of the Little Giant in the year his party split beneath him, popular sovereignty offered as a final compromise to a Union already past compromising. The lithograph carries all the senatorial bearing of a man who had argued the territories from the floor and lost the argument anyway. About the Source Bella Frye