Hon. Abbott Lawrence, Representative in Congress From Massachusetts, January 1842 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame summoned by a reunited nation

summoned by a reunited nation hungry to anchor its bruised present in the audacity of its founding

rendered with the three stars he wore as the first lieutenant general since Washington

The street unfurls in the gaslit clamor of haberdashers and theater-goers

rendered here in the careful gravity of a man briefly hailed as a hero and quietly rebuked as a diplomat

Providence's mill-stack skyline

Hon. Abbott Lawrence, Representative in Congress From Massachusetts, January 1842 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame summoned by a reunited nationHon. Abbott Lawrence, Representative in Congress From Massachusetts, January 1842. A Whig industrialist's portrait drawn at the height of his Congressional tenure, when Massachusetts textiles and tariff politics moved in the same breath, and the rhetorical floor of the House still rang with arguments over what kind of country this would become. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of