THE COPPERHEAD MILLENIUM. "AND THE LION AND THE LAMB SHALL LIE DOWN TOGETHER," AND SAMMY BARLOW SHALL LEAD THEM.
[New York? 1864]. Broadside, 9" x 8-3/8." Lightly foxed. lower margin browned, Good+
McClellan, the 1864 Democratic Party presidential candidate, is depicted as a lion. His running mate, George Pendleton, as a lamb; and a wizard-like Sammy Barlow as their handler. "Sammy Barlow" is Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow [1826-1889], an owner of the New York World newspaper, a successful lawyer, and a noisy Democrat-Copperhead. He is occasionally called "Sammy Barlow" in satiric verse, "the great peace-shrieker of New York city," vociferously advocating a Copperhead platform [Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, 24 September 1864].
Not in Reilly or Weitenkampf. Located at the online sites of Library Company of Philadelphia, Brown University, and Free Library of Philadelphia, which identifies the artist as Henry Louis Stephens, a New Yorker . OCLC 77530460 [1- Lincoln Pres. Lib.] as of June 2020. Item #36781
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