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title: Grand Democratic Free Soil Banner (Currier, Van Buren and Adams), 1848
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/van-buren-adams-free-soil-banner-1848/
description: 'Black-and-white banner print: roundel portraits of Van Buren and Adams below an eagle with olive branches and arrows on a domed ''Temple of Liberty''…'
section: Collection
---

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# Grand Democratic Free Soil Banner (Currier, Van Buren and Adams), 1848

Black-and-white banner print: roundel portraits of Van Buren and Adams below an eagle with olive branches and arrows on a domed 'Temple of Liberty', flanked by flags, with a farm vignette of a man ploughing between two cornucopias. Tells: the slogan 'Free Soil.-Free Labor.-Free Speech.' (virtue words as the message) and the eagle, flags and temple lent to the ticket (transfer).

## Text on the object

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

```
FREE SOIL.-FREE LABOR.-FREE SPEECH.
TEMPLE OF LIBERTY
MARTIN VAN BUREN.
CHARLES F. ADAMS.
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 DEMOCRATIC FREE SOIL BANNER.
From Daguerreotypes by Plumbe.
616.
```

The small imprint and stock-number lines are hard to read at this size.

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