The County Election by George Caleb Bingham (1852) shows us how elections were conducted in one town in Missouri. Only white male property-owners could vote. Votes were cast by voice and recorded in public.
Bingham painted two versions of The County Election. The first "was exhibited at the Whig National Convention in Baltimore, which Bingham attended in July 1852."
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Bingham painted two versions of The County Election. The first "was exhibited at the Whig National Convention in Baltimore, which Bingham attended in July 1852."
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
- Lyndon B. Johnson