In this image, the artist praises the 1864 candidate and platform of the Republican party while ridiculing the Democrats. In Baltimore, the Republicans re-nominated Abraham Lincoln, who here enjoys the blessings of Lady Liberty and the support of General Grant, Admiral David Farragut, and Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner. The caricatured Democratic nominee, General George B. McClellan, is being thrust onto a precarious platform made of cheese, the handiwork of the so-called Copperheads, the Lincoln-hating Northerners who favored a quick peace with the South.