Forcing slavery,throat,freesoiler,Democrats,blame,1856

Title: Forcing slavery down the throat of a freesoiler
Related Names:
Magee, John L.
Date Created/Published: Philad. : Pub. by J.L. Magee, 1856.
Summary: The artist lays on the Democrats the major blame for violence perpetrated against antislavery settlers in Kansas in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Here a bearded 'freesoiler' has been bound to the 'Democratic Platform' and is restrained by two Lilliputian figures, presidential nominee James Buchanan and Democratic senator Lewis Cass. Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas and president Franklin Pierce, also shown as tiny figures, force a black man into the giant's gaping mouth. The freesoiler's head rests on a platform marked 'Kansas,' 'Cuba,' and 'Central America,' probably referring to Democratic ambitions for the extension of slavery. In the background left is a scene of burning and pillage; on the right a dead man hangs from a tree.
Notes:
'Pub. by J.L. Magee 48 Pasyunk Road Phila.'
Drawn by John L. Magee.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Weitenkampf, p. 115.
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1856-8.
Subjects:
Buchanan, James,--1791-1868.
Cass, Lewis,--1782-1866.
Douglas, Stephen A.--(Stephen Arnold),--1813-1861.
Pierce, Franklin,--1804-1869.
Abolition movement--Kansas--1850-1860.
Presidential elections--United States--1850-1860.
Slavery--United States--1850-1860.
Kansas--History--1854-1861.
Central America--1850-1860.
Cuba--1850-1860.
Lithographs--1850-1860.
Political cartoons--1850-1860.
Bookmark /2008661578/
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