The Rail Candidate, Louis Maurer

"the rail candidate", anti-republican political caricature published by currier and ives in september 1860, showing abraham lincoln being carried on a fence-rail labeled "republican platform" by a black man and horace greeley (editor of the new york tribune), alluding to lincoln's nickname of the "rail-splitter". Horace greeley "we can prove that you have split rails, & that will ensure your election to the presidency" abraham lincoln "it is true i have split rails, but i begin to feel as if this rail would split me, it's the hardest stick i ever straddled. " black man "dis nigger strong and willin, but it's awful hard work to carry old massa abe on nothing but dis 'ere rail!!". Date: Created/Published: New York : Currier & Ives, c1860..