Hon. John Bell of Tennessee, National Union Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860 Giants_Print a volume cradled in his

a volume cradled in his hand like the constitutional doctrine he had spent three decades pressing into American law — judicial restraint rendered as oil

issued the year the country asked its general to govern the peace he had won

to save the Union

the firmament's most theatrical body caught mid-performance

Hon. John Bell of Tennessee, National Union Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860 Giants_Print a volume cradled in hisHon. John Bell of Tennessee, National Union Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860. A campaign portrait of the Constitutional Union man who ran to hold the seams of a country already splitting Tennessee's last great compromiser, rendered in the hopeful gravity of an election the Union would not survive intact. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the