Hon. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, National Democratic Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame basement bars

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

dating itself to the year a president was shot in a Washington train station and the long postwar arithmetic of remembrance was still being tallied

Arkansas Little Rock rises from the south bank of the Arkansas River

Hon. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, National Democratic Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame basement barsHon. 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