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The national game : three "outs" and one "run" : Abraham winning the ball.

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Presidential candidates playing a game of baseball. Abraham Lincoln holds a ball and a stick labeled "Equal rights and free territory," while standing on "home base." A skunk stands before Stephen Douglas (holding a stick labeled "Fusion"), John Bell (with "Non-Intervention" stick), and John Breckinridge (with "Slavery extension" stick). Breckinridge holds his nose and is turned away while complaining about being "completely 'skunk'd.'"; Probably drawn by Louis Maurer.; "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1860, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern Distt. of N.Y."
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Keywords

  1. Artist
  2. Baseball
  3. Bell, John
  4. Breckinridge, John C
  5. Caricatures And Cartoons
  6. Currier & Ives
  7. Douglas, Stephen A
  8. Election
  9. Government
  10. Lincoln, Abraham
  11. Maurer, Louis
  12. New York
  13. New York (State)
  14. Politics And Government
  15. Presidential Candidates
  16. Presidents
  17. Prints Shelf
  18. Publisher
  19. Skunks
  20. United States

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