Little Mack & His Party "Going Up" Salt River on a Gun Boat. Terrific Explosion of the "Quaker Gun" and Destruction of the Entire Party. Lithograph political cartoon. N.p.: N.p., [1864]. Image 6 x 3 9/16 in., overall 6 7/8 x 4 1/4 in.

A satirical and detailed political cartoon from the results of the 1864 presidential election. George McClellan and his Democratic Party compatriots are being tossed in the air by the explosion of a "Quaker Gun," - a metaphor for their attempt at intimidation without any real firepower, as well as a reference to the Confederate tactic used to fool McClellan in the Peninsular Campaign - and being plunged into the "Salt River," a metaphor of political failure. Notably, Abraham Lincoln stands safely on the far shore, clutching the Emancipation Proclamation. Vice Presidential nominee George H. Pendleton declares, "We are coming, 'Father Abraham.'" and Lincoln responds, "Yes, and you're going TO BE HANG'D!"

McClellan is at center alongside a gleeful-looking Vallandigham who taunts the personification of England, John Bull, who weeps, "O, my Bonds! my Bonds! Boo! Hoo!" Already in the river, Confederate President Jefferson Davis cries, "Save me! I DON'T WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE!" to Robert E. Lee, who though in the water, has made it safely to shore. 

RARE. Only one other copy has ever sold at auction in the last 100 years. We trace only 5 copies held at Institutions (Library of Congress; Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum; American Antiquarian Society; National Museum of American History; and the New York State Library). 

[Civil War, Union, Confederate] [Broadsides, Ephemera, Printing, Posters, Handbills, Documents, Newspapers] [Abraham Lincoln, Politics, Mary Todd Lincoln, 1860 Election, Election of 1860, 1864 Election, Election of 1864, Lincoln Assassination, John Wilkes Booth]