"Taking the Stump" or Stephen in Search of his Mother
James Buchanan, Jr.|Currier & Ives|John Bell|Stephen Arnold Douglas|Abraham Lincoln|Louis Maurer|Henry Alexander Wise|John C. Breckinridge
1860 · Lithograph · Drawings and Prints
This political cartoon comments on the candidates running for president of the United State in 1860. Stephen Douglas, representing the Northern Democratic party, staggers on a wooden leg while the sitting president James Buchanan offers another wooden leg to his vice-president, John C. Breckinridge--the latter was backed by the Southern Democratic party. Beside them, the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln leans against a fence and says, "Go it ye cripples! Wooden legs are cheap but stumping won't save you." At left, John Bell, the candidate of the Constitutional Union Party, stands talking with Henry Wise, Governor of Virginia.
- Artist
- James Buchanan, Jr.|Currier & Ives|John Bell|Stephen Arnold Douglas|Abraham Lincoln|Louis Maurer|Henry Alexander Wise|John C. Breckinridge
- Date
- 1860
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1952