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In late December 1860 three commissioners from the newly seceded state of South Carolina met with lame-duck President Buchanan to negotiate for possession of Fort Sumter, a federal installation in Charleston Harbor. Buchanan's attempts to stay the situation and South Carolina governor Francis Pickens's insistence on Union evacuation of the fort are ridiculed here. Pickens (left) holds a lit fuse to a giant Union cannon "Peacemaker," which is pointed at his own abdomen. He threatens, "Mr. President, if you don't surrender that fort at once, I'll be "blowed" if I don't fire." Buchanan (right) throws up his hands in alarm and cries, "Oh don't! Governor Pickens, don't fire! till I get out of office." In the background a steamer makes its way across Charleston Harbor toward Fort Sumter. The print probably appeared early in 1861, amid mounting tensions over the fate of the fort and uneasy relations between Washington and South Carolina. Summary from: Library of Congress Print & Photographs Collection.
Full Title
South Carolina's "Ultimatum".
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Contributor(s)
Creator: Currier & Ives
Publisher
Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St N. Y
Date Issued
1861
Language
English
Type
Form
image/tiff
Date Captured
2016-11-28
Identifier
769.973 PR 0070
https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/10764510
photographs-prints_17
Note
Phase One P40+
Alex Japha
400
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Currier & Ives. (1861). South Carolina’s "Ultimatum". (1–). https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/photographs-and-prints/south-carolinas-ultimatum
Currier & Ives. 1861. “South Carolina’s ‘Ultimatum’”. https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/photographs-and-prints/south-carolinas-ultimatum.
Currier & Ives. South Carolina’s "Ultimatum". 1861, https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/photographs-and-prints/south-carolinas-ultimatum.