1860 · New York
by [Douglas, Stephen A.]
New York: Currier & Ives, 1860. Lithograph broadside, oblong 11-1/2" x 13." The artist is Louis Maurer. Light dusting, old mounting remnants on blank verso. Very Good.
"Northern Democratic presidential candidate Stephen A. Douglas was widely criticized for his campaign tours of the country--an unusual practice for a presidential nominee. In an attempt to evade such opprobrium Douglas disguised a July 1860 tour of New England and upstate New York as a personal visit to his elderly mother and family. When it took him over a month to go from Washington to New York, Republicans taunted him as 'a little boy' (a reference to his shortness of (truncated)
"Northern Democratic presidential candidate Stephen A. Douglas was widely criticized for his campaign tours of the country--an unusual practice for a presidential nominee. In an attempt to evade such opprobrium Douglas disguised a July 1860 tour of New England and upstate New York as a personal visit to his elderly mother and family. When it took him over a month to go from Washington to New York, Republicans taunted him as 'a little boy' (a reference to his shortness of (truncated)