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The National Game. Three "outs" and one "run".
Abraham winning the ball.
Currier & Ives, pro-Lincoln satirical editorial cartoon, ca. 1860
Batting with a rail labeled "Equal Rights and Free Territory," Lincoln has "skunked" his opponents -- a Southern Democrat, and a member of the Constitutional Union party, and Stephen Douglas, the Democratic presidential nominee in 1860. The bats of the losers are labeled "Slavery Extension," "Fusion," and "Non Intervention." |