{"id":2841,"date":"2010-07-14T10:26:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T15:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2010-07-14T10:26:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T15:26:29","slug":"the-impending-crisis-1860-political-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/07\/14\/the-impending-crisis-1860-political-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Impending Crisis,” 1860 political cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Republican Party<\/a> held its second national convention beginning at noon on May 16, 1860 in Chicago.\u00a0 The presidential nominees included the veteran statesmen Edward Bates<\/a>, Salmon P. Chase<\/a>, Simon Cameron<\/a>, and William H. Seward<\/a>, as well as a new senator from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln<\/a>.\u00a0 Although Seward was the favorite going into the convention and led the nominees on the first two ballots, Lincoln won the Republican presidential candidacy. Republican delegates had looked to back the candidate they felt could generate the most electoral support.\u00a0 Horace Greeley, the editor of the New York Tribune<\/em>, had the ears of 48 delegates.\u00a0 Greeley\u2019s battle cry was \u201canyone but Seward!<\/a>\u201d and initially gave his support to Bates.\u00a0 According to Greeley\u2019s recent biographer Robert Chadwell Williams, as Lincoln began closing in on Seward in the third ballot, Greeley shifted his 48 votes over to Lincoln, giving him the candidacy.<\/p>\n

This Currier & Ives political cartoon shows Seward drowning of the pier after being pushed in by Greeley (the figure in the top hat). Drawn by Louis Maurer and published in 1860, \u201cImpending Crisis\u201d satirizes the influential role of newspapermen in Civil War-era politics.\u00a0 Henry J. Raymond<\/a> (in the police uniform), founder of the New York Times<\/em>, also helped write the charter of the Republican Party in 1856 and later was a New York Representative.\u00a0 James Watson Webb <\/a>(on the left dressed as a newspaper boy), editor of Courier & Esquirer<\/em>, recently threw his support behind the Republican Party.\u00a0 The title of the cartoon refers the book written by Hinton Rowan Helper<\/a> in 1857, The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It<\/em><\/a>, which denounced slavery from an economic viewpoint\u2014slavery prevented a diverse economy, disadvantaging poor Southerners. Although Seward is undergoing the crisis of losing the Republican presidential candidacy in this cartoon, he would become Lincoln\u2019s Secretary of State, a member of a cabinet filled with Lincoln\u2019s previous political rivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republican Party held its second national convention beginning at noon on May 16, 1860 in Chicago.\u00a0 The presidential nominees included the veteran statesmen Edward Bates, Salmon P. Chase, Simon Cameron, and William H. Seward, as well as a new senator from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln.\u00a0 Although Seward was the favorite going into the convention and […]<\/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":[77,156,173,174],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-2841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-images","category-rare-books","category-recent-scholarship","tag-campaigns-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841","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=2841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}