Content note: 1864 Democratic print with a racist dialect caricature of a Black soldier. This object is shown as it was published. Why
How free ballot is protected!
Lithograph drawn by Joseph E. Baker (Boston) for the Democratic (McClellan) side. A Black Union soldier in dialect caricature bars a one-legged white veteran from putting a McClellan ballot in a stuffed box, while election officials look away; a handwritten note on the LOC copy reads 'Lincoln-McClellan campaign 1864'. It charges the Republicans with electoral corruption and with backing equal rights for Black Americans.
- Date
- 1864
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Joseph E. Baker
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Issuer type
- Individual
- Regime
- Lincoln Administration
- Leader
- Abraham Lincoln
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Event
- 1864 US Election
- Techniques
- Fear appealCard stacking
- 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
