James G. Birney 1844 Size:18x24 the country outside it

the country outside it

a statesman of the Senate caught at the threshold of a country choosing expansion over caution

ledgered in the ornamental confidence of late-century engraving

the Illinoisan's likeness pressed into service before the first shot at Sumter

James G. Birney 1844 Size:18x24 the country outside itJames G. Birney 1844 the Liberty Party's standard bearer rendered in the sober campaign portrait register of a third party crusade, his abolitionist candidacy quietly siphoning votes from Henry Clay and tilting the White House toward Polk. A small print, an outsized consequence in the slow burning argument over slavery. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National