Abraham Lincoln's Return Home After His Successful Campaign for the Presidency framed razor art A pantheon arranged with Whiggish

A pantheon arranged with Whiggish reverence

struck and re-struck until the man himself receded behind the marble of his own myth

It is geometry pressed into liturgy

Seward at the President's elbow as the document changed what the country was fighting for

Nadad reads like a tobacco card pulled from a forgotten cigarette tin — the name itself a small mystery

Abraham Lincoln's Return Home After His Successful Campaign for the Presidency framed razor art A pantheon arranged with WhiggishAbraham Lincoln's Return Home After His Successful Campaign for the Presidency renders the prairie lawyer's homecoming to Springfield in the brittle hush before secession a lithograph of triumph already shadowed by the ledgers of recruits and casualties the next four years would demand. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,