Union and liberty! And union and slavery!
A wood-engraving by Martin W. Siebert attacking the Democratic platform's opposition to emancipation. The print frames the election as a choice between union with freedom or union with slavery, attacking McClellan Democrats as willing to preserve slavery to restore the Union.
- Date
- 1864
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Martin W. Siebert
- 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
- ScapegoatingFear appeal
- 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 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
