A Traitor's Peace that the Northern Copperhead Leaders Would Force Upon the Country

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GLC#
GLC05986
Type
Broadsides, posters & signs
Date
circa 1864
Title
A Traitor's Peace that the Northern Copperhead Leaders Would Force Upon the Country
Place Written
Washington, District of Columbia
Pagination
1 p. : Height: 58.7 cm, Width: 42 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Election broadside printed by McGill & Witherow in Washington D.C. for the Congressional Union Committee, with an engraving by Thomas Nast, from Harper's Magazine. Very similar to GLC06032 - same image and text, but different title (although, this document is in better condition). Image at top half of broadside shows a ragged Northern soldier with an amputated leg shaking hands with an erect and proud Jefferson Davis in the uniform of a Confederate soldier over the freshly dug grave of "Union-Heroes who fell in a useless war." Davis's right foot is sitting on the grave and has snapped a sword with the words "northern power." The female image of liberty weeps at the foot of the Northern soldier. Bottom half of broadside reproduces Copperhead conditions of peace that were published in the Richmond Enquirer on 16 October 1864.

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