{"id":2795,"date":"2010-07-13T09:28:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T14:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2010-07-13T09:59:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T14:59:29","slug":"the-undecided-political-prize-fight-1860-political-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/07\/13\/the-undecided-political-prize-fight-1860-political-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Undecided Political Prize Fight,&#8221; 1860 political cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/33170\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2796\" style=\"margin: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/07\/HD_PrizeFight1860z.preview-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/07\/HD_PrizeFight1860z.preview-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/07\/HD_PrizeFight1860z.preview.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9604\" target=\"_blank\">The Election of 1860<\/a> mirrored the divided nature of the United States both in the presidential candidates and the voting results.\u00a0 The four major candidates represented three parties, a result of sectional discord: <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/5585\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Douglas<\/a> (northern Democratic party), <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/5186\" target=\"_blank\">John Breckinridge<\/a> (southern Democratic party), <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/6095\" target=\"_blank\">Abraham Lincoln<\/a> (Republican party), and <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/5082\" target=\"_blank\">John Bell<\/a> (Constitutional Union party).\u00a0 This pro-Breckinridge political cartoon shows Douglas (on the left) and Lincoln (on the right) duking in out in a boxing ring, while Breckinridge points towards the White House with one hand and thumbs his nose (a sign of disrespect) at the boxers with the other.\u00a0 The boxers\u2019 coaches reflect the stereotypical perception of their constituency: an Irishman backs Douglas, reflecting the northern Democrats, while a black man coaches Lincoln, the antislavery-Republican candidate.\u00a0 According to the artist, who may have published this cartoon in Cincinnati, Breckinridge could slip into the White House while Douglas and Lincoln were preoccupied with their \u201cpolitical prize fight.\u201d Although the cheering line of gentlemen on the path to the White House would reflect the lower-Southern states&#8217; unanimous support of Breckinridge, the split nature of the Democratic party helped enable Lincoln\u2019s electoral victory.<\/p>\n<p><em>American Political Prints, 1766-1876<\/em> (1991) catalogues Library of Congress\u2019s collections, giving a brief contextual summary as well as the date and place of publication for their political images.\u00a0 The book\u2019s introduction briefly explains the history of American printmaking and also includes a selected bibliography for further research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election of 1860 mirrored the divided nature of the United States both in the presidential candidates and the voting results.\u00a0 The four major candidates represented three parties, a result of sectional discord: Stephen Douglas (northern Democratic party), John Breckinridge (southern Democratic party), Abraham Lincoln (Republican party), and John Bell (Constitutional Union party).\u00a0 This pro-Breckinridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,156],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-2795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-images","tag-campaigns-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2798,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}