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Worship of the North:
Adalbert Volck began his Sketches from the Civil War with this comprehensive indictment of the Union cause, titled Worship of the North. Gathered around an altar built of bricks labeled "Puritanism," "Witchburning," "Negro Worship," and "Free Love" are a host of villains responsible for the crusade against the South. As a devil-like Lincoln presides to the right of the altar, abolitionist clergyman Henry Ward Beecher directs his knife toward the white victim being sacrificed to a black idol. While New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley swings incense in the left corner and, behind him, Republican senator Charles Sumner holds a torch to guide Beecher's knife, a crowd of other northern luminaries looks solemnly and prayerfully on. Underscoring the Confederacy's commonly held conviction that the North was making war on the South as much for profit as for slave liberation, overfed representatives of "The Holy Cause of the Contractors" stand barely visible in the far right background.
Etching, 1863
Sitter: Henry Ward Beecher, 24 Jun 1813 - 8 Mar 1887
Sitter: Charles Sumner, 6 Jan 1811 - 11 Mar 1874
Sitter: Horace Greeley, 3 Feb 1811 - 29 Nov 1872
Sitter: Benjamin Franklin Butler, 5 Nov 1818 - 11 Jan 1893
Sitter: John Charles Frémont, 21 Jan 1813 - 13 Jul 1890
Sitter: William Henry Seward, 16 May 1801 - 15 Oct 1872
Sitter: Edwin McMasters Stanton, 19 Dec 1814 - 24 Dec 1869
Sitter: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, 14 Jun 1811 - 1 Jul 1896
Sitter: Ambrose Everett Burnside, 23 May 1824 - 13 Sep 1881
Sitter: James Henry Lane, 22 Jun 1814 - 11 Jul 1866
Sitter: John Albion Andrew, 31 May 1818 - 30 Oct 1867
Sitter: John Brown, 9 May 1800 - 2 Dec 1859
Sitter: Winfield Scott, 13 Jun 1786 - 29 May 1866
Sitter: David Hunter, 1802 - 1886 |