"Politics Make Strange Bedfellows," September 1864, political cartoon

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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, November 26, 2014.
Depicted ContentElection of 1864
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POLITICS MAKES STRANGE BEDFELLOWS (Pat and John Bull under the same Quilt) JOHNNY BULL: "Now, Pat, you get up early, and vote for LITTLE MAC, and I'll find the money yo pay the piper." PAT. "Och, bad luck to them! if I'd knowed this great fat baste was in the bed, I'd never have got in at all. I wouldn't."
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Harper's Weekly Magazine, September 24, 1864, p. 624.
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