Matty's perilous situation up Salt River,Presidential Campaign,Martin Van Buren

Title: Matty's perilous situation up Salt River
Related Names:
Childs, J. (John)
Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857.
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by J. Childs, 1840.
Summary: A pro-Whig satire on the presidential campaign of 1840. Martin Van Buren is neck-deep in the waters of 'Salt River,' a colloquial term for political misfortune or failure. He sinks under the weight of boxes marked 'Tariff,' 'Hooe's Trial,' 'Negro Suffrage,' 'Sub Treasury,' and 'Standing Army of 200,000 Men,' surmounted by a crown with a hand holding a purse. His hat, filled with newspapers friendly to the administration, floats away. Whig candidate William Henry Harrison paddles downstream on a barrel of hard cider. On the shore behind him is a shed labeled 'Humane Society's Apparatus for the Recovery of Drowned Persons.' Van Buren: 'Oh that I could shake off this load! I am sinking deeper and deeper into the quicksand of Loco Focoism! Help! Ming! Riel! Slam! Bang! Help!' (He names New York Democratic figures Alexander Ming and Levi Slamm.) Harrison: 'It's a pity to let the poor fellow drown; I had an idea of making him Inspector of Cabbages of Kinderhook for that's all he's good for; but I think he will sink. Oh what a weight!'
Notes:
Entered . . . 1840 by J. Childs.
Published by J. Childs no. 90 Nassau St. N.Y.
Signed with monogram: EWC (Edward Williams Clay).
The Library's impression was deposited for copyright on August 31, 1840. Printed in the lower margin is 'Price 25 Cents.'
Title appears as it is written on the item.
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 1840-55.
Subjects:
Harrison, William Henry,--1773-1841.
Ming, Alexander,--1773?-1849.
Slamm, Levi D.,--d 1862.
Van Buren, Martin,--1782-1862.
United States.--Army--1840.
African Americans--1840.
Salt River.
Lithographs--1840.
Political cartoons--1840.
Bookmark /2008661390/
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