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"Your plan and mine."

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Satire criticizing the 1864 presidential candidates, Democrat General George McClellan's, and incumbent Abraham Lincoln's, divergent peace policies depicting each in a scene with Jefferson Davis and an an African American Union soldier. The first scene depicts McClellan offering an olive branch, a frightened kneeling African American soldier, and a promise of non-interference to a raggedly dressed, scowling, armed Jefferson Davis. Davis acknowledges the branch, accepts the soldier, and expresses his satisfaction about the renewed ability for Southern domination of the government. The soldier, whose head Davis clutches, questions with horror McClellan's proposition to send him back to slavery after his service to the Union. The opposite scene depicts Lincoln pointing a bayonet at a cowering Davis who begs for readmission to the Union. Lincoln, on behalf of the nation, demands unconditional surrender and declares the end of slavery. The observing African American soldier boasts that Davis will not have anything to do with him anymore.

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