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title: 'Grand, National, Democratic Banner: Press Onward (Currier, Cass and Butler), 1848'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cass-butler-democratic-banner-1848/
description: 'Draped-cloth campaign banner: oval portraits of Cass and Butler beneath an eagle on a globe marked ''America'' and ''France'', with scrolls reading ''The…'
section: Collection
---

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[![Grand, National, Democratic Banner: Press Onward (Currier, Cass and Butler), 1848](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/cass-butler-democratic-banner-1848.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/cass-butler-democratic-banner-1848.jpg)

# Grand, National, Democratic Banner: Press Onward (Currier, Cass and Butler), 1848

Draped-cloth campaign banner: oval portraits of Cass and Butler beneath an eagle on a globe marked 'America' and 'France', with scrolls reading 'The Democrats' Choice for President & Vice President from 1849 to 1853' and 'Press Onward'. Tells: the scroll 'The Democrats' Choice for President & Vice President from 1849 to 1853' presents the ticket as the party's settled choice (bandwagon; 'Press Onward' alone would be a thin tell), and the eagle and flags lend national symbols to the candidates (transfer).

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
LEWIS CASS.
WM. O. BUTLER.
[left scroll] THE DEMOCRATS' / PRESIDENT & / FROM 1849
[right scroll] CHOICE FOR / VICE PRESIDENT / TO 1853.
[globe] AMERICA / FRANCE
LITH. & PUB. BY N. CURRIER. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1848 by N. Currier, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y. 152 NASSAU ST. COR. OF SPRUCE N.Y.
GRAND, NATIONAL, DEMOCRATIC BANNER.
PRESS ONWARD.
585.
```

Scroll lines are given left scroll then right scroll; read together they run 'THE DEMOCRATS' CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT & VICE PRESIDENT FROM 1849 TO 1853.' Bracketed labels are not printed. Handwritten library notes ('271.' and 'Deposited in Clerk's Office So. Dist. N.Y. June 23. 1848.') are not part of the printed text.

[← The Presidents of the United States: Lewis Cass, Democratic Candidate for 12th President (Currier), 1848](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cass-presidents-portrait-banner-1848/) [Zachary Taylor, the People's Choice for 12th President (Currier), 1848 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/taylor-presidents-portrait-banner-1848/)

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