Cutting down the Hickory Tree,Crow's Nest,Whig,Subtreasury,Van Buren,Democrats

Title: Cutting down the hickory tree and disturbing the crow's nest
Related Names:
Childs, J. (John)
Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857.
Date Created/Published: New York : Published by John Childs, 1840.
Summary: Figurative portrayal of Whig opposition to the independent treasury or subtreasury system conceived by Jackson and implemented by Van Buren and the Democrats. In a large tree is a nest labeled 'Sub Treasury' in which sits an alarmed hen, Andrew Jackson, who says, 'Woodman spare that tree!! By the Eternal dont cut it down.' Falling from the tree is a crow with Van Buren's head who exclaims, 'I'll never trust to Hickory agin, but go and roost among the 'Kabbitches' at Kinderhook.' The tree is being felled by Harrison, who wields an axe 'Reform,' and says, 'I used to be a pretty good axe-man when I first lived in a log cabin! I think there's enough left of the old stuff yet to hew down this tree!' Henry Clay and Daniel Webster are pulling it down with a rope. Clay: 'Down with it! it has overshadowed the land long enough, and poisoned every thing with its noxious exhalations!' Webster: 'Pull together and down it must come!'
Notes:
Entered . . . 1840 by John Childs.
Published by John Childs, 90 Nassau St. New York.
Signed with monogram: EWC (Edward Williams Clay).
The print was deposited for copyright on September 24, 1840.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Davison, no. 137.
Weitenkampf, p. 65.
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 1840-57.
Subjects:
Clay, Henry,--1777-1852.--Political activity.
Harrison, William Henry,--1773-1841.
Jackson, Andrew,--1767-1845.
Van Buren, Martin,--1782-1862.
Webster, Daniel,--1782-1852.
Independent treasury--1840.
Log cabins--1840.
Lithographs--1840.
Political cartoons--1840.
Bookmark /2008661392/
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