Hon. Andrew Pickens Butler, Late Senator From South Carolina, 19th Century vintage tobacco art Each plate burns at the

Each plate burns at the seam where heliography met natural theology — the firmament as furnace

depending on which side of expansion you stood

photographed in the brass and braid of his commission the year he marched toward Fort Donelson and Shiloh

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or a kitchen where the shaker is always within reach

Hon. Andrew Pickens Butler, Late Senator From South Carolina, 19th Century vintage tobacco art Each plate burns at theHon. Andrew Pickens Butler, Late Senator From South Carolina, 19th Century. A portrait of the Carolina senator whose defense of slavery on the Senate floor drew Charles Sumner's scalding rebuke and Preston Brooks's cane in answer. Butler's likeness carries the courtly hauteur of a planter class already arguing itself toward war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the