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title: Grand National Whig Banner. "Onward" (Clay and Frelinghuysen), 1844
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/onward-clay-frelinghuysen-whig-banner-1844/
description: 'Hand-coloured lithograph imitating a draped campaign banner: oval laurel-wreathed portraits of Henry Clay and Theodore Frelinghuysen under an eagle and…'
section: Collection
---

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# Grand National Whig Banner. "Onward" (Clay and Frelinghuysen), 1844

Hand-coloured lithograph imitating a draped campaign banner: oval laurel-wreathed portraits of Henry Clay and Theodore Frelinghuysen under an eagle and flags. Tells: "The Nation's Choice" claims the ticket already has the country behind it (bandwagon); "Justice to Harry of the West" is a virtue word with no stated claim (glittering generalities).

## Text on the object

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

```
JUSTICE TO HARRY OF THE WEST.
NOMINATED FOR PRESIDENT.
HENRY CLAY.
NOMINATED FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
T. FRELINGHUYSEN.
THE NATION'S CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT & VICE-PRESIDENT.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, [illegible] in the Clerk's office of the dis[trict] Court of the [illegible].
GRAND NATIONAL WHIG BANNER.
"ONWARD".
Lith: & Pub: by N. Currier, 2 Spruce St N.Y.
```

Copyright line is partly faint and marked [illegible] where it could not be read.

[← Tyrants Prostrate, Liberty Triumphant (pro-Polk cartoon on Dorr), 1844](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tyrants-prostrate-liberty-triumphant-polk-1844/) [Grand National Democratic Banner. Press Onward (Polk and Dallas), 1844 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/press-onward-polk-dallas-banner-1844/)

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