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For assistance in understanding rights, obtaining permissions, or requesting files for publication or research purposes, please contact us at <a href=\"www.gettysburg.edu/special-collections/ask-an-archivist\">www.gettysburg.edu/special-collections/ask-an-archivist</a>"},{"label":"Citation","value":"Creator (if known), Title, Date (if known), GettDigital: Civil War Era Collection, Special Collections and College Archives, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Access Date, Link to Item"},{"label":"Genre","value":["Political cartoons"]},{"label":"Part of","value":["Civil War Era (1830-1877) GettDigital Collection"]},{"label":"Era","value":["War Years"]},{"label":"Subject","value":["United States--Politics and government--19th century","Slavery--United States--19th century"]},{"label":"Periodical","value":["New York Illustrated News"]},{"label":"Metadata Researcher","value":"Gross, Matthew R."},{"label":"Language","value":["eng"]},{"label":"Description","value":"A depiction of a \"popular orator\" of time speaking in regards to his stance on slavery. The locale is Exeter Hall in London known for hosting discussions on American issues and most predominately on slavery. It was notably the meeting place of the Anti-Slavery Society. The cartoon's orator is indicative of many such speakers of the time who straddled both sides of the slavery issue. The depiction can also more simply represent the two popular sides of the debate. One is that slavery is protected by the constitution and is justified by its necessity for \"Local Institutions\" and preservation of \"States Rights\" (written on the legs of the stools). The other side is referencing the view that the Constitution does not protect the existence of slavery. This stance regarding the interpretation of the Constitution without protection for slavery is similarly written on the legs of another stool with \"Justice\", \"Liberty\", and \"Freedom\". The legs of the slavery stool are buckling under the orator while those arguments for a non-slavery Constitution stands firm, indicating that the arguments for slavery are losing the strength to support the issue at hand. The cartoon also references several radical abolitionists like Horace Greely and Wm. Lloyd Garrison. Greely was the editor of the anti-slavery New York Tribune while Garrison was the editor of The Liberator. Here they are being criticized for their radical stances in the debate over slavery and their role in causing civil war by serving as vocal opponents to the Constitution as a document supporting slavery. Garrison infamously burned the Constitution as a \"slave-document\". Therefore the message of this cartoon is anti-slavery while resting on the belief that the Constitution as a document does not support slavery. It trivializes the more radical stances of the Constitution as being a document supporting slavery. This brings out the irony that many pro-slavery advocates and radical abolitionists held a similar viewpoint on the Constitution and slavery despite being diametrically opposed to each other on the issue of slavery itself."},{"label":"Creator","value":["Unknown"]},{"label":"Alternate Title","value":"A popular orator, equally successful on both sides of the question. A pseudo friend of freedom! Also illustrating the status of Horace Greely, Wm. Lloyd, Garrison, Oliver Johnson Etc., Etc., All in their abnormal position as accessories to the rebellion by their libellous caricatures of our Glorious Constitution, or Liberty \"wounded in house of her friends,\" by legalizing slavery. Respectfully submitted to all \"whom it may concern,\" not excepting our transatlantic friends."},{"label":"Date","value":"D:23 M:01 Y:1864"},{"label":"Date Original","value":"1864-01-23"},{"label":"Title","value":"\"What is it?\"--\"What will you have?\""},{"label":"Reference URL","value":"http://cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4016coll2/id/15"}],"description":"\"What is it?\"--\"What will you have?\"","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/3a1f9a43-9f58-4943-ae48-0512610dd4fc/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"\"What is it?\"--\"What will you have?\"","height":849,"width":458,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/3a1f9a43-9f58-4943-ae48-0512610dd4fc/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/3a1f9a43-9f58-4943-ae48-0512610dd4fc","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2]}]},"height":849,"width":458},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/3a1f9a43-9f58-4943-ae48-0512610dd4fc/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/3a1f9a43-9f58-4943-ae48-0512610dd4fc/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/3a1f9a43-9f58-4943-ae48-0512610dd4fc/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/logo"}