The Republicans' purported support of Negro rights is taken to an extreme
here. Editor Horace Greeley (left) and candidate Abraham Lincoln (resting his
elbow on a rail at right) stand on either side of a short black man holding a
spear. The latter is the deformed African man recently featured at P.T. Barnum's
Museum on Broadway as the "What-is-it." (A poster for this attraction
appears on the wall behind.)