Political cartoon from "Harper's Weekly." It shows a church setting, with two men, likely Henry Ward Beecher and John Brown refusing communion to a slaveholder, while three men, likely Secretary of State William Seward, Abraham Lincoln, and "New York Tribune" editor Horace Greeley, prominently look on.
Notes:
"Seward," "Lincoln," "Greeley," and "Mar 2, 1861" are handwritten on the clipping.
Prints in the Lincoln collection are classified by Meserve numbers, and include most of the known photographic images of Lincoln, along with engravings and popular prints by, among other firms, Currier & Ives and Kurz & Allen. There are also …
