![]() ![]() Isn’t it extatic?” To the right a white woman embraces a black dandy, saying, “Oh! You dear creature. The black woman says, “Ah! Horace its-its-its bully ‘specially de cream.” Her companion, Republican editor Horace Greeley, answers, “Ah! my dear Miss Snowball we have at last reached our political and social Paradise. ![]() ” A second mixed couple sit at a small table (center) eating ice cream. Dont do nuffin now but gallevant ’round wid de white gemmen!. Lincoln bows and says, “I shall be proud to number among my intimate friends any member of the Squash family, especially the little Squashes.” The woman responds, “Ise ‘quainted wid Missus Linkum I is, washed for her ‘fore de hebenly Miscegenation times was cum. A black woman (left), “Miss Dinah, Arabella, Aramintha Squash,” is presented by abolitionist senator Charles Sumner to President Lincoln. ![]() The scene takes place in a park-like setting with a fountain in the shape of a boy on a dolphin and a large bridge in the background. The artist serves up a vision of the supposed consequences of racial equality in America in this attack on the Republican espousal of equal rights. This number was deposited for copyright on July 1, 1864. The second in a series of anti-Lincoln satires by Bromley & Co. ![]()
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