"Union & Liberty Forever: Reconstruction of the South" by J. L. Giles, after Horatio Bateman. Lithograph, 1867
Exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
This allegorical lithograph, published two years after the end of the American Civil War, symbolically depicts the idealism of which President Lincoln spoke in the peroration of his second inaugural address:
“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan – to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”
"Union & Liberty Forever: Reconstruction of the South" by J. L. Giles, after Horatio Bateman. Lithograph, 1867
Exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
This allegorical lithograph, published two years after the end of the American Civil War, symbolically depicts the idealism of which President Lincoln spoke in the peroration of his second inaugural address:
“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan – to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”