A serviceable garment--or reverie of a bachelor,1856,James Buchanan,Democratic

Title: A serviceable garment--or reverie of a bachelor
Creator(s): N. Currier (Firm), lithographer., 1856]
Summary: Democratic presidential candidate James Buchanan is depicted as a poor bachelor in his squalid quarters. American minister to Great Britain, he was nominated on June 2 at his party's Cincinnati convention. A needle and thread in his hand, Buchanan examines a ragged coat on which he has evidently just sewn a patch marked 'Cuba.'. Ostend Manifesto of 1854, United States annex or seize Cuba. 'Ostend Doctrine,'' no. 1854-6.) Buchanan says, 'My Old coat was a very fashionable Federal coat when it was new, but by patching and turning I have made it quite a Democratic Garment. That Cuba patch to be sure is rather unsightly but it suits Southern fashions at this season, and then. (If I am elected,) let me see, $25,000 pr. annum, and no rent to pay, and no Women and Babies about, I guess I can afford a new outfit.' Buchanan's words here suggest that the desire to extend American slave territory motivated his Ostend designs on Cuba. His mention of converting a 'Federal coat' to a Democratic one refers to his 1828 conversion from Federal party man to Jacksonian Democrat.
Currier & Ives. Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5865
Weitenkampf, p. 116
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1856-13.
Subjects:
Buchanan, James, as presidential candidate.
Cuba.
Ostend Manifesto.
Lithographs--1850-1860.
Political cartoons--1850-1860
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