Charles F. Adams, Free Soil Candidate for Vice President 1848 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap its cantilevered ironwork drawn with

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Louis Arsenal and dragged a divided Missouri into the Union's column — a portrait of a man already racing toward the bullet that would find him in August

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Charles F. Adams, Free Soil Candidate for Vice President 1848 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap its cantilevered ironwork drawn withCharles F. Adams, Free Soil Candidate for Vice President 1848. A campaign portrait of the grandson and son of presidents, conscripted onto the Van Buren ticket under the banner of Free Soil a party whose single, unblinking demand was that the territories remain unstained by slavery. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and