Daniel Webster New England's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 discipline_artwork as if the printer himself

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A mid-century lithograph that resurrects the Sage of Philadelphia for a Republic well past his own — Franklin rendered in the iconography the antebellum era loved best

Daniel Webster New England's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 discipline_artwork as if the printer himselfDaniel Webster New England's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 a campaign portrait floated by Whigs who believed the Senate's great voice belonged in the executive chair, printed on the eve of a contest that would instead crown a Mexican War general and leave Webster, again, the bridesmaid of the Republic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National