{"id":2963,"date":"2010-07-20T09:41:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T14:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2010-07-22T14:19:55","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T19:19:55","slug":"an-heir-to-the-throne-1860-political-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/07\/20\/an-heir-to-the-throne-1860-political-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"“An Heir to the Throne,” 1860 political cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cAn Heir to the Throne, or the Next Republican Candidate\u201d satirizes the Republican Party\u2019s stand on slavery in the 1860 presidential election<\/a>.\u00a0 Democrats attacked\u00a0 Abraham Lincoln<\/a> and the Republican Party for rejecting the expansion of slavery into new territories. \u00a0Louis Maurer, the artist of this 1860 Currier & Ives cartoon, depicted the ultimate allegiance between the Republicans and African-Americans, as Horace Greeley<\/a> (on the left) introduced the black man in the center of the cartoon as the Republican Party\u2019s \u201cnext Candidate for the Presidency.\u201d Greeley, the editor of the New York Tribune<\/em>, came out in favor of Lincoln during the May 1860 Democratic convention in Chicago and used his position in the press to advocate for Lincoln leading up to the election. \u00a0In the cartoon, Lincoln\u2019s response flouted any convention of race at the time, by declaring that his party\u2019s new candidate will \u201cprove to the world the superiority of the Colored over the Anglo Saxon race.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though the caricature of Lincoln made what would have been, an outrageous statement on the hierarchy of the races, the subject of his assertion\u2014the black man\u2014was still labeled as a \u201ccreature.\u201d Maurer actually borrowed this image of a black man from P.T. Barnum<\/a>\u2019s American Museum exhibit \u201cWhat is it?\u201d Barnum advertised the exhibit, which ran in New York in 1860, as the link between human beings and monkeys. \u00a0An announcement <\/a>that ran in the March 1, 1860 edition of the New York Tribune<\/em> attempted to draw in spectators with the attention-grabbing questions: \u201cIs it a lower order of man? or is it a higher development of the monkey? or Is it both in combination?\u201d \u00a0The question of race, and of slavery, was on the forefront of Americans\u2019 minds in 1860, adding to the relevance of Barnum\u2019s exhibit. \u00a0In addition, Charles Darwin published his ground-breaking scientific work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life<\/em>, only months before on November 24, 1859<\/a> in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAn Heir to the Throne, or the Next Republican Candidate\u201d satirizes the Republican Party\u2019s stand on slavery in the 1860 presidential election.\u00a0 Democrats attacked\u00a0 Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party for rejecting the expansion of slavery into new territories. \u00a0Louis Maurer, the artist of this 1860 Currier & Ives cartoon, depicted the ultimate allegiance between […]<\/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-2963","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\/2963","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=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3018,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions\/3018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}