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Photo, Print, DrawingForcing slavery down the throat of a freesoiler The artist lays on the Democrats the major blame for violence perpetrated against antislavery settlers in Kansas in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Here a bearded "freesoiler" has been bound to the "Democratic Platform" and is restrained by two Lilliputian figures, presidential nominee James Buchanan and Democratic senator Lewis Cass. Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas and president Franklin Pierce, also shown as tiny...
- Contributor: Magee, John L. - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) Dlc - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1856