Jeff,get away,anti-Confederate,sheet music cover,1864

Title: 'Jeff wants to get away'
Related Names:
Bussett, Eunice.
McClean, Alexander.
Endres & Compton.
Date Created/Published: St. Louis : Published for the Author by Endres & Compton, 1864.
Summary: An illustrated sheet music cover for an anti-Confederate comic song. Confederate president Jefferson Davis stands on a bale of cotton and asks John C. Breckinridge, former U.S. Vice President and fellow secessionist, to 'Black Me.' Breckinridge, in military uniform, complies and begins to paint Davis's face with blacking. Around Breckinridge's feet coils a 'Copperhead,' symbol of the Peace Democrats. Another snake winds around the broken, inverted staff of a Union flag. At right a grinning black man sits on boxes of 'Butler's Blacking' and holds a tin of blacking in his hand. The name 'Butler' probably refers to Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, a figure despised in the South. Among other things, Butler had forced the Confederacy to recognize the military status of U.S. Negro troops. At left under the heading 'Memminger's Funeral Pile,' bare-chested Confederate secretary of the treasury Christopher G. Memminger is partially submerged in a pile of C.S.A. bonds. Under his management, the Confederate Congress issued so many bonds that the people doubted its ability to redeem them, and prices skyrocketed. 'Repudiation' appears in large letters on one of the bonds.
Notes:
Alexander McLean lith.
Entered . . . 1864 by Mrs. Eunice Bussett . . . Missouri.
Published for the Author by Endres & Compton, no. 52, 4th St., St. Louis.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1864-43.
Subjects:
Breckinridge, John C.--(John Cabell),--1821-1875.
Butler, Benjamin F.--(Benjamin Franklin),--1795-1858.
Davis, Jefferson,--1808-1889.
Memminger, C. G.--(Christopher Gustavus),--1803-1888.
African Americans--1860-1870.
Confederate States of America--1860-1870.
Lithographs--1860-1870.
Sheet music covers--1860-1870.
Bookmark /2008661683/
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