Hon. Andrew Pickens Butler, Late Senator From South Carolina, 19th Century vintage tobacco art a campaign portrait trading on

a campaign portrait trading on gunpowder credentials and the Manifest Destiny swagger of a republic that had just swallowed half a continent

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Hon. Andrew Pickens Butler, Late Senator From South Carolina, 19th Century vintage tobacco art a campaign portrait trading onHon. Andrew Pickens Butler, Late Senator From South Carolina, 19th Century. A portrait of the Carolina senator whose defense of slavery on the Senate floor drew Charles Sumner's scalding rebuke and Preston Brooks's cane in answer. Butler's likeness carries the courtly hauteur of a planter class already arguing itself toward war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the