Independence Declared 1776, The Union Must Be Preserved 1839 framed atomizer in waxed lapels and steady

in waxed lapels and steady gaze

A 20th-century rendering of Hamilton's Harlem country seat — the federalist's retreat from pamphlet wars and Treasury ledgers

1839 — a portrait of the immense Alabaman whose voice on the House floor carried the South's states-rights creed through the Jacksonian decade

fixing Elmer Ellsworth at the foot of the Marshall House stairs as the Union's first celebrated casualty

Independence Declared 1776, The Union Must Be Preserved 1839 framed atomizer in waxed lapels and steadyIndependence Declared 1776, The Union Must Be Preserved 1839 yokes the founding clarion to a Jacksonian era vow, the broadside speaking in two voices across sixty three years one announcing a republic, the other warning what it would cost to keep it whole as the slavery question began its slow boil toward fracture. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,