From what I can tell, it is a cartoon by those who opposed Lincoln’s desire to retain the Union without eliminating slavery immediately. They are portraying that as cutting off the head of liberty to satisfy Avarice and Prejudice, the way Herod cut off the head of John the Baptist to satisfy his wife or mistress.
>>cartoon by those who opposed Lincoln’s desire to retain the Union without eliminating slavery immediately
Thanks, Defiant. I’ll never be the analyzer so many on this thread are. It’s the best place in the world to learn things.
Impeachment of AJ...Skolnick, 2005
It happened once in the 19th century, following the assassination of President
Abraham Lincoln just a few days after the Civil War ended. Taking his position was
Andrew Johnson who angered key members of both houses of Congress by threat-
ening to finger them for their conspiratorial commodity speculations in opposi-
tion to Lincoln’s policy of going easy on the South to get them back in the Union.
Some in Congress, jointly with the French Rothschilds, favored harsh treatment
of the South, which would have made Southern farm products, particularly cot-
ton, to zoom up in price to their immense profit. Johnson was impeached and
escaped by one vote from being removed from office at his trial.