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Medals containing beautiful melainotype likenesses 
1861, 13 April 
  
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LL/34676 
  
Published in the article "Election-Time in America" in "All Year Round: A Weekly Journal" conducted by Charles Dickens, Volume 5, April 13, 1861, p.67-68.
 
Everywhere advertisements meet your eye of this inflammatory kind:
 
Roll On Roll Up !
 
Sixteen varieties of Campaign Medals, solid rim, with milled edge and giltshell rim medals containing beautiful melainotype likenesses of
 
Lincoln and Hamlin,
Bell and Everett,
Douglas and Johnson,
Breckinridge and Lane.
 
Mark Barnewitz and Jonathan Pumpner, 38 and 40, West Fourth-Street, New York.
 
Now, when I go to the store of Barnewitz, and buy these election badges, which are about the size of a five-dollar gold piece, I find they bear on one side the likeness of the nominee for President, on the other the Vice-Président, and are to be worn at the button-hole. I have seen thousands wearing them; and since I have been in America, and indeed a week ago on the Alabama river, I met a well-known duellist with a little silver bell on his watchchain : signifying thereby his changeless attachment to Mr. Bell, one of the candidates for the presidentship. These election medals follow me everywhere barefooted boys bring cigar-boxes full of them for sale, into the luxurious marble-paved smoking-rooms of the great hotels; lean dried-up men hawk them through the long avenues of the railway-cars, and awake me to recommend their medals and their "plum candy;" the shops have trays of them in their windows; you can almost tell in different cities how the voting is likely to go, by the majority of medals you meet, being either "Lincoln" or "Douglas." 
 

 
  
 
  
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