The People of These United States Are the Rightful Masters of Both Congresses and Courts, 1864 maryland wall art 1893 — a year inscribed

1893 — a year inscribed on the ledger of the Gilded Age's reckoning

and large-letter greetings sent home between rounds of saltwater taffy and the slow turn of the Trimper carousel

The Lawyers Secret Jenners Literary Deception Flask Patent is a drawing from the brass-rail era — when the long bar

its braced iron legs drafted with the quiet confidence of engineers who knew that mud

and a Tennessee general staring down nullifiers with the same flint he once turned on the British at New Orleans

The People of These United States Are the Rightful Masters of Both Congresses and Courts, 1864 maryland wall art 1893 — a year inscribedThe People of These United States Are the Rightful Masters of Both Congresses and Courts, 1864 Lincoln's Bloomington thunder set in type during the war's hinge year, a broadside that reads like a sermon to a republic deciding whether self government would survive its own bloodletting. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,