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The Rail Candidate

Dis Nigger strong and willin', but it's awful hard work to carry Old Massa Abe on nothing but dis ere rail!!

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.

White man with Tribune

We can prove that you have split rails & that will ensure your election to this Presidency.

Summary

The Rail Candidate
Louis Maurer (1832–1932)
Lithograph, 1860
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Source: http://www.civilwar.si.edu/lincoln_railcandidate.html#

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