This presidential campaign medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1860. The Scovill Company was established in 1802 as a button manufacturer that is still in business today. Scovill was an early industrial American innovator, adapting armory manufacturing processes to mass-produce a variety of consumer goods including buttons, daguerreotype mats, and campaign medals.
Obverse: Bust of Stephen A. Douglas facing forward with a legend that reads: STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.
Reverse: Legend reads: INTERVENTION IS DISUNION 1860/M.Y.O.B.