Letters of Major Jack Downing of the Downingville Militia.
"The Constitution is a Dimmycratic machine...or it won't run at all!"--Major Jack Downing to Lincoln.

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Related Names

Davis, Charles Augustus, 1795-1867, supposed author.
Smith, Seba, 1792-1868, supposed author.

Language(s)

English

Published

New York : Bromley & Co., J.F. Feeks, 1864.

Subjects

Lincoln, Abraham, > Lincoln, Abraham, / 1809-1865 > Lincoln, Abraham, / 1809-1865 / Caricatures and cartoons.
United States > United States / History > United States / History / Civil War, 1861-1865 > United States / History / Civil War, 1861-1865 / Humor
Humor
Humor
History
Caricatures and cartoons

Note

Spurious letters; not by Seba Smith or Charles Augustus Davis. cf. Sabin. Bibl. amer., v. 20, p. 576; Blair, Walter. Native American humor [1937] p. 41.

Physical Description

xiv, [15]-254 p. front., plates. 20 cm.

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