Great Match at Baltimore,Illinois Bantam,Old Cock,White House,c1860,Democratic

Title: The great match at Baltimore, between the 'Illinois Bantam' and the 'Old Cock' of the White House
Creator(s): Currier & Ives.,
Related Names:
Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932 , artist
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Currier & Ives, c1860.
Summary: Dissension within the Democratic party in 1860 and Stephen A. Douglas's capture of the party's presidential nomination at the party's May convention are satirized as a cockfight. Douglas stands, the victorious cock, atop his badly beaten rival, incumbent president James C. Buchanan. Feathers still fill the air from the fray. Douglas crows:'Cock a doodle doo!! / I've got the best of you. / And I can beat the Lincoln Cock; / And Old Kentucky too!' Buchanan moans, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! this is my last kick, I'm a used up old rooster.' On the right an unidentified man sets a new cock into the ring, Kentucky senator John C. Breckinridge. The man warns Douglas, 'Don't crow too loud my fine fellow, here's a Kentucky chicken that will worry you a little.' The Breckinridge cock says anxiously, 'I suppose now I'm in the pit that I must tackle the bantam, but I don't much like the job.' A simian Irishman wearing a stovepipe hat watches from ringside left, probably representing the old-line Tammany Democrats of New York. He reflects, 'He [Buchanan] wos a werry game old bird, but that ere bantam, was a leetle too much for him!'
Notes:
Title from item.
Probably drawn by Louis Maurer.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2846
Weitenkampf, p. 121
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1860-21.
Subjects:
Breckenridge, John C.
Irish-Americans.
Lithographs--1860-1870.
Political cartoons--1860-1870.
Bookmark /2003674575/
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