Hon. John Bell of Tennessee, National Union Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860 Giants_Print a volume cradled in his

a volume cradled in his hand like the constitutional doctrine he had spent three decades pressing into American law — judicial restraint rendered as oil

the firmament's most theatrical body caught mid-performance

with the keeper's hexagonal cottage perched mid-air like a lantern in a cage

George Washington E Pluribus Unum 1888 — a centennial-flavored chromolithograph that resurrects the first president alongside the republic's adopted motto

and gastronomic boast

Hon. John Bell of Tennessee, National Union Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860 Giants_Print a volume cradled in hisHon. John Bell of Tennessee, National Union Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860. A campaign portrait of the Constitutional Union man who ran to hold the seams of a country already splitting Tennessee's last great compromiser, rendered in the hopeful gravity of an election the Union would not survive intact. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the