Return To Lincoln: The Image: Railing at the Candidates: Caricatures & Cartoons
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Currier & Ives, publisher. “Taking the Stump.” New York, 1860. Lithograph
By custom, presidential candidates did not campaign. Lincoln made no speeches during the 1860 election. His opponent Stephen Douglas, however, campaigned vigorously all over the country. Douglas’ feeble excuse that he was on his way to visit his mother explains the joke in this cartoon.