A cure for Republican lockjaw,Crittenden Compromise,Slavery,Congress,1861

Title: A cure for Republican lockjaw
Related Names:
Day, Benjamin Henry, 1838-1916.
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Benj. Day, 1861.
Summary: The artist portrays congressional efforts to pass the Crittenden Compromise as an antidote to Republican intransigence on the slavery issue. (For an earlier anti-North satire relating to the compromise, see 'Congressional Surgery. Legislative Quackery,' no. 1860-44.). Three well-dressed men (probably members of Congress) attend a sick man, who wears a dressing gown and holds a document inscribed 'Republican Platform No Compromise.' Together they pull the invalid from his chair and struggle to force an oversized pill 'Crittenden Compromise' down his throat, pushing it with a 'Petition of 63,000.' A box of 'Constitutional Remedies' (containing more giant pills) is on the floor nearby. The door to the room stands open at right.
Notes:
Ent'd According to act of Congress 1861.
Published by Benj. Day 48 Beekman St. N.Y.
Signed: BDay del (Benjamin H. Day, Jr.).
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Weitenkampf, p. 130.
Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1861-1.
Subjects:
United States.--Congress--1860-1870.
Slavery--1860-1870.
Crittenden Compromise.
Lithographs--1860-1870.
Political cartoons--1860-1870.
Bookmark /2008661610/
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