The true issue or That's what's the matter

The true issue or That's what's the matter. In a rare pro-Democrat cartoon presidential aspirant George Brinton McClellan is portrayed as the intermediary between Abraham Lincoln and Confederacy president Jefferson Davis. Gen. McClellan is in the center acting as a go-between in a tug-of-war over a Map of the United States engaged in by Lincoln (left) and Davis. He holds the two men by their lapels and asserts, The Union must be preserved at all hazards! Lincoln tugs at the northern side of the map, saying, No peace without abolition. Davis pulls at the southern portion, advocating, No peace without Separation!!. Date c1864. The true issue or That's what's the matter. In a rare pro-Democrat cartoon presidential aspirant George Brinton McClellan is portrayed as the intermediary between Abraham Lincoln and Confederacy president Jefferson Davis. Gen. McClellan is in the center acting as a go-between in a tug-of-war over a Map of the United States engaged in by Lincoln (left) and Davis. He holds the two men by their lapels and asserts, The Union must be preserved at all hazards! Lincoln tugs at the northern side of the map, saying, No peace without abolition. Davis pulls at the southern portion, advocating, No peace without Separation!!. Date c1864

Abolition Advocating Aspirant Asserts Brinton C1864 Confederacy Democrat Engaged Hazards Intermediary Jefferson Lapels Mcclellan Portion Portrayed Pulls Saying Separation Tugs

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