Content note: 1864 Democratic print using a racial slur. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Political caricature. No. 3, The abolition catastrophe. Or the November smash-up
Lithograph published in New York by G.W. Bromley & Co. for the Democratic (McClellan) side. A train marked 'Union' and led by an engine labelled 'Democracy' carries McClellan and cheering passengers toward the White House, while the Republican train lies wrecked on rocks labelled 'Emancipation' and 'Confiscation' beneath a '$400,000,000 public debt'. Passenger captions use the label 'Miscegenationists' and a racial slur, and announce 'Thus ends the Abolition Party!'.
- Date
- 1864
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- G.W. Bromley & Co.
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Lincoln Administration
- Leader
- Abraham Lincoln
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Event
- 1864 US Election
- Techniques
- BandwagonName-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1864; work is over 160 years old)
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
