1576707 Satire on Republican platform\'s antislavery plank, 1860; (add.info.: The rail candidate\' The antislavery plank was a controversial feature of the 1860 Republican platform. Here Republican nominee Abraham Lincoln is shown uncomfortably straddling a rail, a dual allusion to the platform and to Lincoln\'s backwoods origins carried by a black man and abolitionist editor of the New York "Tribune" Horace Greeley.); Universal History Archive/UIG; out of copyright.