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Like today, political parties in the 19th century tried to
cultivate an image of their candidates as men in touch with the common people,
with the average voter. Although Lincoln had become a prosperous lawyer, his
background—born in a log cabin and raised in poverty with little formal
education—was a perfect fit for the self-made man myth. In this Vanity Fair
cartoon the artist represents Lincoln as a rail-splitter, a frequent caricature
of him. President James Buchanan appears as a tiny, frightened dog guarding the
White House, which is depicted as a pawnshop, an allusion to Buchanan
administration corruption uncovered by the Covode investigation (a Congressional
inquiry that found substantial evidence of influence-peddling and other
wrongdoing in the Buchanan administration). The three-to-one odds that Buchanan
places against Lincoln’s victory refers to the three other presidential
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