Liberty, the Fair Maid of Kansas, in the Hands of the Border Ruffians

by Kansas Nebraska Act, John L. Magee

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Lithographed print. 11-3/4x17-1/4 inches. Toning, minor remnants of prior mounting on verso. Murrell, p. 190; Nevins and Weitenkampf, A Century of political cartoons, p. 78; Weitenkampf, p. 115; Reilly 1856-9. Item #346851 This political cartoon appeared during the 1856 presidential election and takes a vehement stance against the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Designed to open these territories to settlement, this act employed the doctrine of

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