Hon. John Bell of Tennessee, National Union Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860 Giants_Print struck a generation after the

struck a generation after the guns to honor the immigrants who bled for an adopted republic

just as the Whigs sharpened their knives for the log-cabin election

with the keeper's hexagonal cottage perched mid-air like a lantern in a cage

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

Hon. John Bell of Tennessee, National Union Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860 Giants_Print struck a generation after theHon. 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