General Benjamin F. Butler, Candidate of the People's Party for President of the United States 1884 large indiana map Columbia Presenting the Sword of

Columbia Presenting the Sword of Congress and Crowning Admiral George Dewey the Naval Hero of the Nineteenth Century 1899 — an allegorical chromolithograph in which the Republic herself

his clubfoot and lacerating wit equally legendary in the House chamber where he hammered out emancipation and

rendered in the muscular optimism of a republic stitching itself back together one rail tie and postal route at a time

Washington's institute

The scene hums with the particular grit of a thoroughfare that bred both Stephen Foster ballads and Bowery Boys legend

General Benjamin F. Butler, Candidate of the People's Party for President of the United States 1884 large indiana map Columbia Presenting the Sword ofGeneral Benjamin F. Butler, Candidate of the People's Party for President of the United States 1884. A campaign portrait of the Massachusetts firebrand running on the Greenback Labor ticket, his jowled scowl rendered with the earnestness of a lithographer convinced this third party gambit might actually unsettle the Cleveland Blaine duel. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,