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The Platform Debate on the New Era Planks
A satirical piece depicts a committee drafting a political platform using biblical tablets as planks. They spike in the Ten Commandments and other historic emblems while critiquing slavery and women’s rights within a Comitia of mock candidates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount
Sinia
Andrew
Andrew Jackson
Cumberland River
Tennessee
Hermitage
South Carolina
John
Calhoon
James Buchanan
Jeff Davis
Victoria Woodhull
Lucy Stone
Theodore Tilton
H. W. Beecher
Shootemquick
Price
Mississippi
Lebanon
Ichabod Crane
London
Ichabod
Templars
Young Men’s Christian Association
J. Jones
Dru i Smith
Ja “Haday
Solomon
Jerusalem
Hobbleday
People’s Convention