Platforms illustrated.
The August 1864 Democratic national convention in Chicago is unfavorably compared to the Republican convention in Baltimore in June of the same year. The cartoon is divided into two panels: "Baltimore" (left) and "Chicago" (right). In Baltimore, Abraham Lincoln, seated and holding a roll inscribed "Emancipation," is with Columbia on a platform supported by Charles Sumner, Ulysses S. Grant, and David Farragut. In Chicago, George McClellan is being supported by Clement Vallandigham on a "Cheese" platform, held up by snakes, with Horatio Seymour and Fernando Wood uttering Southern sentiments.
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