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=== Membership certificate === [[File:Free speech, free soil, free men. This is to certify that (blank) is a member of the (blank) Wide-awake Club LCCN2004665362.jpg|thumb|A membership certificate for the Wide-Awake Club: "Free speech, free soil, free men. This is to certify that... is a member of the... Wide-Awake Club."]] This particular membership certificate of the Wide Awakes has a central vignette showing crowds and troops before the US Capitol. Some of the troops march in long parade lines, others fire cannons into the air toward the Capitol. Crowds line the Capitol steps, flanking a lone figure, probably [[Abraham Lincoln]], who ascends toward the building's entrance. The certificate is framed by an American flag draped over a rail fence, with olive branches at the top. In the upper corners are oval medallions of Lincoln (left) and his running mate, [[Hannibal Hamlin]] (right). Rail-splitter's mallets appear in the corners. A vigilant eye peers from a halo of clouds at the center. On either side stand uniformed members of the society, wearing their characteristic short capes and visored caps. One holds a staff and a lantern (left), and the other holds a burning torch. Below, an eagle on a shield holds arrows, an olive branch, and an [[E pluribus unum]] streamer. Broken shackles lie before him. In the left distance, the sun rises over a mountainous landscape and a locomotive chugs across the plains. On the right is a more industrial scene: an Eastern city with its harbor full of boats. In the foreground a man hammers a wedge into a wooden rail.<ref>Library of Congress: [https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2004665362&searchType=1&permalink=y ''Free speech, free soil, free men This is to certify that ... is a member ...'']</ref>
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