Image: The Senatorial Tapster, H. L. Stephens, Vanity Fair 1860

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Description: Political cartoon from Vanity Fair, March 10, 1860. William H. Seward, senator and contender for the Republican nomination for president (won by Abraham Lincoln) repositions himself as a moderate on slavery by brewing "mild beer" after his Rochester speech in which he said slavery would lead to a "irrepressible conflict. Caption: Customer -- I notice you draw your ale very mild now, William. Landlord Seward -- Yes, this is a new tap, some I brewed myself last Wednesday; my customers thought the Rochester ale was rather too strong.
Title: The Senatorial Tapster, H. L. Stephens, Vanity Fair 1860
Credit: H. L. Stephens, The Senatorial Tapster. 1860 GettDigital: Civil War Era Collection, Special Collections / Musselman Library, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania <http://gettysburg.cdmhost.com/cdm/ref/collection/p4016coll2/id/250> Originally printed in Vanity Fair Volume 1, Issue , 1860; pp. 169-170 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/acg4267.0001.000/129
Author: Henry Louis Stephens
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