Hon. Andrew Pickens Butler, Late Senator From South Carolina, 19th Century vintage tobacco art and to forgive him the

and to forgive him the duel that ended him on the Weehawken bluffs

and shipped from the United States — never mass-produced overseas

drawn by hands that sensed the Union fraying and looked to Valley Forge for proof that suffering could still be ennobled into nationhood

Missouri St Louis rises in these postcards beneath the silver curve of the Mississippi — Eads Bridge stitched across the water

Hon. Andrew Pickens Butler, Late Senator From South Carolina, 19th Century vintage tobacco art and to forgive him theHon. Andrew Pickens Butler, Late Senator From South Carolina, 19th Century. A portrait of the Carolina senator whose defense of slavery on the Senate floor drew Charles Sumner's scalding rebuke and Preston Brooks's cane in answer. Butler's likeness carries the courtly hauteur of a planter class already arguing itself toward war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the