A galvanized corpse

Title: A galvanized corpse
Related Names:
Robinson, Henry R., d. 1850.
Date Created/Published: N.Y. ; Washington, D.C. : Printed & pub: by H.R. Robinson, 1836.
Summary: Jacksonian editor Francis Preston Blair rises from his coffin, revived by a primitive galvanic battery, as two demons look on. A man on the right throws up his hands as he is drawn toward Blair, saying: Had I not been born insensible to fear, now should I be most horribly afraid. Hence! horrible shadow! unreal mockery. Hence! And yet it stays: can it be real. How it grows! How malignity and venom are 'blended in cadaverous union' in its countenance! It must surely be a 'galvanized corpse.' But what do I feel? The thing begins to draw me . . . I can't withstand it. I shall hug it! . . . First demon: 'There! We've lost him, after all! See! they are bringing him to life again!' Second demon (holding a copy of Blair's newspaper, the 'Globe)': Lose him! ha ha! . . . Rest you easy on that score. But can't you see that it's all for our gain that he should be galvanized into activity again? Where have we his equal on earth? especially since dear Amos [Kendall], poor fellow, has got his hands so full, at the Post Office, that he can't write for us as he used to. Show me another man that can lie like him. They talk of Croswell [influential editor of the 'Albany Argus' and Van Buren ally Edwin Croswell] but Harry is nothing to him. I doubt if I can beat him myself. Lose him! a good joke that! Weitenkampf tentatively identifies the man at right as Amos Kendall, but the likeness differs considerably from that found in other caricatures of Kendall.
Notes:
Printed & pub: by H.R. Robinson, no. 52 Cortlandt St. N.Y. & Pennsa. Avenue Washington D.C.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Weitenkampf, p. 43.
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 1836-25.
Subjects:
Blair, Francis Preston,--1791-1876.
Croswell, Edwin,--1797-1871.
Kendall, Amos,--1789-1869.
Albany Argus (Albany, N.Y. : 1828)--1830-1840.
Globe (Washington, D.C. : Daily)--1830-1840.
Postal service--1830-1840.
Caricatures--1830-1840.
Lithographs--1830-1840.
Bookmark /2008661296/
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