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[Gene C]

Here is an interesting political cartoon published only two days before Lincoln's inauguration.

Titled - No Communion With Slaveholders,
This cartoon depicts several American historical figures communing in a church. Standing at the pulpit with a Communion chalice is Henry Ward Beecher who is refusing to serve Communion to George Washington (kneeling).

Published by Harpers Weekly only two days before Lincoln's inauguration, this depiction colors the incoming administration as being inline with radical abolitionist elements to the point that they would even disavow a Founding Father such as Washington.

https://gettysburg.contentdm.oclc.org/di...2/id/1715/