"THE 'RAIL-SPUTTER' REPAIRING THE UNION."

The cartoon given here in facsimile was one of the posters which
decorated the picturesque Presidential campaign of 1864, and assisted
in making the period previous to the vote-casting a lively and memorable
one. This poster was a lithograph, and, as the title, "The Rail-Splitter
at Work Repairing the Union," would indicate, the President is using the
Vice-Presidential candidate on the Republican National ticket (Andrew
Johnson) as an aid in the work. Johnson was, in early life, a tailor,
and he is pictured as busily engaged in sewing up the rents made in the
map of the Union by the secessionists.

Both men are thoroughly in earnest, and, as history relates, the torn
places in the Union map were stitched together so nicely that no one
could have told, by mere observation, that a tear had ever been made.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln upon the assassination of the
latter, was a remarkable man. Born in North Carolina, he removed to
Tennessee when young, was Congressman, Governor, and United States
Senator, being made military Governor of his State in 1862. A strong,
stanch Union man, he was nominated for the Vice-Presidency on the
Lincoln ticket to conciliate the War Democrats. After serving out his
term as President, he was again elected United States Senator from
Tennessee, but died shortly after taking his seat. But he was just the
sort of a man to assist "Uncle Abe" in sewing up the torn places in the
Union map, and as military Governor of Tennessee was a powerful factor
in winning friends in the South to the Union cause.

"FIND OUT FOR YOURSELVES."

"Several of us lawyers," remarked one of his colleagues, "in the eastern
end of the circuit, annoyed Lincoln once while he was holding court for
Davis by attempting to defend against a note to which there were many
makers. We had no legal, but a good moral defense, but what we wanted
most of all was to stave it off till the next term of court by one
expedient or another.

"We bothered 'the court' about it till late on Saturday, the day of
adjournment. He adjourned for supper with nothing left but this case to
dispose of. After supper he heard our twaddle for nearly an hour, and
then made this odd entry.

"'L. D. Chaddon vs. J. D. Beasley et al. April Term, 1856. Champaign
county Court. Plea in abatement by B. Z. Green, a defendant not served,
filed Saturday at 11 o'clock a. m., April 24, 1856, stricken