| Title |
Copperhead. |
| Publisher |
[New York] : N.Y. Union Valentine Co., No. 134 William St., N.Y. |
| Date |
[1861-1865?] |
| Description |
The Union solider aims a gun towards the viewer. A speech bubble reads "Who goes there?" A yellow snake labeled "copperhead"
lays around his feet. Copperhead refers to northern sympathizers with Secession. "Anathema Marantha" is a biblical curse.
|
| Notes |
Text: Of all things whom honorable men despise, / The meanest is the copperhead and traitor, / Whose presence is a libel on
our liberties, / And his thoughts a libel on his Creator. / Anathema Marantha! Let him be accursed: / Let him drink of the
poison he distils: / Let him be marked of enemies the worst, / That has brought on the Republic all its ills. / The woman
would be branded with ever living shame, / Who, for a Valentine, breathed a copperhead's name.
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| Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor. |
|
Copperhead Movement -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
| Has format |
TMP.objres.98.jpg |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
| Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 2.48 |
