Buck,pot,James Buchanan,M Fillmore,John Fremont,1856

Title: 'Buck' taking the 'pot'
Related Names:
Currier, Nathaniel, 1813-1888.
Date Created/Published: 1856.
Summary: A pro-Buchanan satire, critical of the divisive or sectionalist appeal of the other two presidential contenders in the 1856 race. 'Buck' or Buchanan (left) has evidently won a card game over Fremont (fallen at right) and Millard Fillmore (at right, blindfolded). Holding four aces and a large cauldron of 'Union Soup' Buchanan vows, 'I have fairly beaten them at their own game, and now that I have became possessed of this great 'Reservoir' I will see that each and Every State of this great and glorious Union receives its proper Share of this sacred food.' Fremont has tripped over a 'Rock of Disunion' and fallen to the ground, still holding his large spoon 'Abolition.' He laments, 'Oh, that I had been born a dog!--This is too much for mortal man to bear. Had I not stumbled over that 'Blasted' rock I might have reached the fount of my ambition and with this good ladle 'Deal' to the North, and leave the South to 'Shuffle & Cut' off their mortal coil, by starvation, I shall have to 'Pass'!' Behind Fremont, Fillmore wanders blindfolded, holding a Know Nothing lantern (reflecting his party's nativist affiliation) and a spoon. He despairs, 'I regret to say that 'Going It Blind' is a loosing Game, I did hope that I would be able to dip my spoon in the Pot without much difficulty.--My Hand is played out--'Buck' wins, and I am satisfied--Four aces can't be beat! and Buck holds them.'
Notes:
For sale by Nathaniel Currier at No. 2 Spruce St. N.Y.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Gale, no. 803.
Weitenkampf, p. 118.
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1856-26.
Subjects:
Buchanan, James,--1791-1868.
Presidential elections--United States--1850-1860.
Lithographs--1850-1860.
Political cartoons--1850-1860.
Bookmark /2008661588/
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