Currier & Ives. still image graphic still image Political cartoons-1860-1870. Lithographs-1860-1870. nyu 1861 monographic New York] Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St. N.Y. [1861] eng

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1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; sheet 32.2 x 43.7 cm. In late December 1860 three commissioners from the newly seceded state of South Carolina met with lame-duck President Buchanan to negotiate for possession of Fort Sumter, a federal installation in Charleston Harbor. Buchanan's attempts to stay the situation and South Carolina governor Francis Pickens's insistence on Union evacuation of the fort are ridiculed here. Pickens (left) holds a lit fuse to a giant Union cannon "Peacemaker," which is pointed at his own abdomen. He threatens, "Mr. President, if you don't surrender that fort at once, I'll be "blowed" if I don't fire." Buchanan (right) throws up his hands in alarm and cries, "Oh don't! Governor Pickens, don't fire! till I get out of office." In the background a steamer makes its way across Charleston Harbor toward Fort Sumter. The print probably appeared early in 1861, amid mounting tensions over the fate of the fort and uneasy relations between Washington and South Carolina. Source: Reilly. No known restrictions on publication. Title from item. Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1861-4. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress). Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 Pickens, F. W. (Francis Wilkinson), 1805-1869 Cannons South Carolina 1860-1870 Secession South Carolina 1860-1870 Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 PGA - Currier & Ives--South Carolina's "ultimatum" Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.05027 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g07252 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a19458 no. 6027 p. 125 (DLC) 2003656552 2003674566 LC-DIG-pga-05027 DLC LC-USZC4-7252 DLC LC-USZ62-17261 DLC hdl:loc.pnp/pga.05027 hdl:loc.pnp/cph.3g07252 hdl:loc.pnp/cph.3a19458 aacr gihc DLC 031009 20250606203101.2 13369155 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208)