Equality for All Men Before the Law 1877 walla_walla_wall fixing Wool astride his line

fixing Wool astride his line on the chaparral plateau where Santa Anna's columns broke and the young republic discovered the taste of imperial victory

the moment Fort Sumter's harbor turned from rumor to artillery

and anyone who keeps a leather case in a desk drawer

New York NYC arrives as a skyline in miniature — linen postcards of the Flatiron's prow

and Saturn are bound in elliptical obedience

Equality for All Men Before the Law 1877 walla_walla_wall fixing Wool astride his lineEquality for All Men Before the Law 1877 a chromolithograph issued in the very year federal troops withdrew from the South, its allegorical title insisting on a principle that Reconstruction was already conceding in practice. The image carries the cruel arithmetic of its moment: a creed printed in bright ink as the law itself was being unprinted. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of