Nasty political campaign

There are so many articles about polarised American polity and how that divide the nation etc. I was reading a article on nasty political campaigns in today's newspaper and found the photo of a phamplet used against Lincoln in his reelection bit. I don't believe the current divide is no where near the venomous campaigns of the earlier generations. Here is the phamplet titled Miscegenation. I wanted to write so much but just logging this phamplet would convey what I really wanted to say...