'Presidential electioneerino in New York — a street scene.' 

 from The Illustriiled London .\'ncs, October 15, 1864. 



around with Chinese lanterns and other luminous objects. 

 So crowded were these vehicles that they resembled 

 moving pyramids of acrobats. They all displayed an 

 immense variety of transparencies, stranger in their 

 suggestions than Longfellow's 'banner with a strange 

 device'; and I noticed one of them with a large stuffed 

 eagle mounted over it upon rods, in a position intended 

 to represent the sweeping soar of that noble bird. The 

 jokes of Mr. Lincoln were a favorite subject for the 

 legends upon the transparencies — the rather grim one of 

 'Coal, 14 dols. per ton' being greeted by the populace 

 with groans as it swayed past. One of the waggons bore 

 the ship 'Constitution' — a good -sized vessel, barque 



rigged, and manned with a crew of young fellows in red 

 shirts. Passing through a dark by-street, a man on 

 horseback galloped past me, pulling up his horse with a 

 jerk every few yards, and discharging a shower of fire- 

 works from some contrivance carried in his hand. As 

 he disappeared into the dark, through which he loomed 

 up here and there in a glory of his wildfire, he suggested 

 the idea of a mounted ignis fatuus, come up from his 

 native swamps to contribute to the harmony of the occa- 

 sion. The sentiment throughout this demonstration was 

 one of disgust with the war; the feeling, that with the 

 election of M'Clellan peace will be restored — somehow." 



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