By Louis Maurer

Currier and Ives, 1860

Horace Greeley carries Abraham Lincoln into a Lunatic Asylum as followers of the Republican Party express their positions on various issues. They are saying:

Greeley: "Hold on to me Abe, and we'll go in here by the unanimous consent of the people."

Lincoln: "Now my friends I'm almost in and the millenium is going to begin, so ask what you will and it shall be granted."

Woman: "Oh! what a beautiful man he is. I feel a 'passional attraction' every time I see his lovely face."

Man: "I represent the free love element, and expect to have free license to carry out its principles."

Man: "I want religion abolished, and the book of Mormon made the standard of morality."

African American: "'De white man hab no rights dat cullad pussons am bound to spect.' I want dat understood."

Woman: "I want womans rights confered, and man reduced in subjection to her authority."

Man: "I want everybody to have a share of everybody else's property."

Man: "I want a hotel established by government, where people that aint inclined to work, can board free of expense, and be found in rum and tobacco."

Man: "I want guaranteed to every citizen the right to examine every other citizen's pockets without interruption by Policemen."

Man: "I want all the stations houses burned up, and the M.P.s killed, so that the bohoys can run with the machine and have a muss when they please."