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title: Abraham's dream!--Coming events cast their shadows before
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abrahams-dream-1864/
description: Currier & Ives lithograph, probably drawn by Louis Maurer, hostile to Lincoln.
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** 1864 anti-Lincoln print including a severed Black head. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Abraham's dream!--Coming events cast their shadows before](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/abrahams-dream-1864.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/abrahams-dream-1864.jpg)

# Abraham's dream!--Coming events cast their shadows before

Currier & Ives lithograph, probably drawn by Louis Maurer, hostile to Lincoln. Lincoln sleeps under a star-spangled sheet and dreams of Columbia (Liberty), holding aloft a severed Black head, kicking him out of the White House as McClellan walks in with his valise. Lincoln flees in the Scotch cap and cloak of the 1861 Baltimore story, carrying a scroll marked 'To whom it may concern' and saying 'This don't remind me of any joke!!'.

[← Union and liberty! And union and slavery!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/union-and-liberty-1864/) [The Chicago platform and candidate →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chicago-platform-candidate-1864/)

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- [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account.
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- [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers.
- [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (Dutch Republic · 1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling)
- [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (Great Britain · 1746 · Name-calling, Transfer)
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- [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd.
- [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (France · 1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)