Hon. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, National Democratic Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation drafted

the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation drafted before the ink of the battlefield reports had dried

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Army of the United States Corps Badges 1865

Hon. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, National Democratic Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation draftedHon. 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