Jeff Davis on the Right Platform

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A caricature of Jefferson Davis, probably issued not long after the bombardment of Fort Sumter, but certainly postdating his February 1861 election as president of the Confederacy. Davis is shown standing on a gallows, draped in the Confederate flag and wearing on his head a misshapen Phrygian cap. Under him is a "Secession Trap" door. He anticipates his drop saying, "O dear! O dear! I don't really want to secede this way--I want to be let alone.'" To the gallows crossbar is nailed a "Letter of Marque."(See "The Southern Confederacy a Fact!" no. 1861-22.) Below stand several observers, including many prominent secessionists who await their own execution with nooses around their necks. They are (left to right) Secretary of State Robert Toombs, Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, Vice President Alexander Stephens, and South Carolina governor Francis W. Pickens. Each of them speaks. Toombs: "I begin to feel weak in the knees!" Beauregard: "Oh Jeff! Jeff! is that the elevated position that you promised me?" Stephens: "Alas! Alas! I prophesied in November that secession would be the death of us." Pickens is still defiant, saying: "Can it be possible that they will dare to hang a g?entleman from South Carolina?'" Summary from: Library of Congress Print & Photographs Collection.
Full Title
Jeff Davis on the Right Platform
Contributor(s)
Publisher
Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St N. Y
Date Issued
1861
Language
English
Form
image/tiff
Date Captured
2016-11-28
Identifier
769.973 PR 0066
https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/10764510
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Note
Phase One P40+
Alex Japha
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Ives, C. &. (1861). Jeff Davis on the Right Platform (1–). https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/photographs-prints/currier-ives-civil-war-lithograph-prints/jeff-davis
Ives, Currier &. 1861. “Jeff Davis on the Right Platform”. https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/photographs-prints/currier-ives-civil-war-lithograph-prints/jeff-davis.
Ives, Currier &. Jeff Davis on the Right Platform. 1861, https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/photographs-prints/currier-ives-civil-war-lithograph-prints/jeff-davis.