John J. Crittenden, Senator from Kentucky, 1841 New York canvas art Family Chart for the United

Family Chart for the United States 1835 diagrams the young republic as a household ledger — Jackson's America rendered as lineage

and true enough

of Monticello's dome and the colonial brick of Williamsburg

lithographed for the season when the Democrats wagered everything on a soldier's bearing and a careful silence about the Compromise of 1850

and Jackson's long shadow

John J. Crittenden, Senator from Kentucky, 1841 New York canvas art Family Chart for the UnitedJohn J. Crittenden, Senator from Kentucky, 1841 a Senate portrait of the Kentuckian whose name would later attach itself to the last great compromise before the war, here rendered in the Whig prime of his career, when the chamber still believed rhetoric could outrun rupture. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the