Independence Declared 1776, The Union Must Be Preserved 1839 framed atomizer 1839 — a portrait of

1839 — a portrait of the immense Alabaman whose voice on the House floor carried the South's states-rights creed through the Jacksonian decade

A 20th-century rendering of Hamilton's Harlem country seat — the federalist's retreat from pamphlet wars and Treasury ledgers

where Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland held the cedar ground against Bragg and bought the Union a grim

The draftsman gave equal weight to every tread and rivet

Independence Declared 1776, The Union Must Be Preserved 1839 framed atomizer 1839 — a portrait ofIndependence Declared 1776, The Union Must Be Preserved 1839 yokes the founding clarion to a Jacksonian era vow, the broadside speaking in two voices across sixty three years one announcing a republic, the other warning what it would cost to keep it whole as the slavery question began its slow boil toward fracture. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,