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Letting the Cat out of the Bag!!

Louis Maurer1860

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, United States

Radical antislavery senator Charles Sumner releases a snarling cat, labeled "Spirit of Discord," from the "Republican Bag." Horace Greeley, Abraham Lincoln, Henry J. Raymond, and William H. Seward, worried that perceived Republican opposition to slavery will doom Lincoln's hopes for the presidential election of 1860, express alarm.

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