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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, December 16, 2008.
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Democratic platform illustrated
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Prints Collection, Library of Congress
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Published by James G. Varney, New York City. The 1856 election cartoon catalogues recent anti-Democratic complaints, including slave holders' designs on Cuba, the burning of Lawrence, Kansas, the beating of Charles Sumner, and the continued Democratic support for slavery.