The morning after the election, November 1856
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

The morning after the election, November 1856

[1856]

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Election of 1856. Democrat James Buchanan sits reading the returns of the election while newspaper editors approach from the left. Behind them the defeated Republican candidate John C. Fremont rides off into the West. To the right the second defeated candidate, Millard Fillmore laments his fall into "Know-Nothingism."

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