Assembling of Congress, Hall of Representatives, Washington City, December 3, 1860.

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• PUBLISHER: Published by Harper's Weekly December 15, 1860.

• MEDIUM: Wood engraving,

  DATE: 1860.

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 9 x 13 3/4" (23 x 34.9 cm)

• DESCRIPTION: The State of the Union Address by James Bucanan: Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: Throughout the year since our last meeting the country has been eminently prosperous in all its material interests. The general health has been excellent, our harvests have been abundant, and plenty smiles throughout the land. Our commerce and manufactures have been prosecuted with energy and industry, and have yielded fair and ample returns. In short, no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until within a very recent period.<br><br> Why is it, then, that discontent now so extensively prevails, and the Union of the States, which is the source of all these blessings, is threatened with destruction?<br><br> The long-continued and intemperate interference of the Northern people with the question of slavery in the Southern States has at length produced its natural effects. The different sections of the Union are now arrayed against each other, and the time has arrived, so much dreaded by the Father of his Country, when hostile geographical parties have been formed.<br>

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• CONDITION: Good condition with modern hand color.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Town Views - United States , Washington D.C.