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A campaign portrait of the Pennsylvania doughface on the eve of his victory over Frémont and Fillmore

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Charles F. Adams, Free Soil Candidate for Vice President 1848 collage tree art Abraham Lincoln 19th Century 2Charles F. Adams, Free Soil Candidate for Vice President 1848. A campaign portrait of the grandson and son of presidents, conscripted onto the Van Buren ticket under the banner of Free Soil a party whose single, unblinking demand was that the territories remain unstained by slavery. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and