Joel Roberts Poinsett, Secretary of War, 1838 framed astrology even as the Compromise of

even as the Compromise of 1850 echoed in the halls he had once tried to keep above faction

Our President 20th Century a commemorative portrait pitched at the turn of a new American hundred-year

its terraced shoulders shouldering past a constellation of lesser rooftops

all framed by a horizon that refuses to end

January 1842

Joel Roberts Poinsett, Secretary of War, 1838 framed astrology even as the Compromise ofJoel Roberts Poinsett, Secretary of War, 1838. A portrait of the South Carolinian diplomat turned cabinet officer mid tenure under Van Buren, his War Department overseeing the bitter machinery of Cherokee removal and the Second Seminole War Manifest Destiny rendered as policy, signed in a careful hand. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional