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Year Created: 1861
Publisher: Vanity Fair
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Two young men face off to fight, one representing the South, the other the North, while a woman sits at left crying and looking angry. She has a hairpiece labeled "Liberty" and is holding a paper labeled "Constitution." After the assault on Fort Sumter by Rebel forces, many northerners felt that the liberty assured by the Constitution was being attacked. It was this that surged northern patriotism and anger.
Caption: North. - I did'nt mind it, so long as he only bullied and threatened, but when he strikes you, mother, it's time for me to thrash him - he's got to take it.
Source: Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), A Family Quarrel, or the Reason Why., 1861-11-09, GettDigital: Civil War Era Collection, Special Collections and College Archives, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 2025-04-10, https://gettysburg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4016coll2/id/274/rec/1