Presidential Pot Pie, from 'Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun', 1st October, 1860 by American School
© Bridgeman Art Library / American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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- Presidential Pot Pie, from 'Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun', 1st October, 1860
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Catholic Archbishop John Hughes of New York seeks ingredients from the three major presidential candidates (l to r) Republican Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, and Southern Democrat John Breckinridge, in order to make Catholic influence palatable to the American public; satirises American fear of potential Catholic influence brought on by German and Irish immigrants in the usually Protestant politics of the US;
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