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"Let Us Have Pease, Ha Ha"

Topic:
Pro-Seymour/Anti-Grant

Source:
Library of Congress.

Cartoonist:
H. Wehrmann

Date: c1868

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A sheet music cover for a humorous song on the origins of Grant's campaign slogan, "Let Us Have Peace." In reality, those were the closing words of his letter accepting the Republican presidential nomination (May 29, 1868).

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