Morning,Election,J Buchanan,M Fillmore,J Fremont,1856

Title: The morning after the election--November 1856
Related Names:
Childs, J. (John)
Magee, John L.
Date Created/Published: Phila. : Published by I [i.e. John] Childs, 1856.
Summary: The victorious James Buchanan sits under a trellis of grape vines, holding reports of election returns on his lap. He reflects, 'What a happy morning for my country and myself. Here I find returns for myself & my Kentucky brother [running mate John C. Breckinridge]--beginning with Maine in the North & concluding with Texas in the South. What welcome news to know that the People have not removed a plank of the Democratic Platform. Who will dare breathe Disunion now?' Before him on the ground lie scythes, a shovel, and a pickax; a plough rests nearby. Behind him ripe wheat is visible. On the left, past a low fence, four New York newspaper editors run forward holding up bills for large sums of money. They are a bearded 'German editor,' Horace Greeley, James Gordon Bennett, and James Watson Webb--frustrated supporters of John C. Fremont, who rides off in the distance saying, 'I'm off to Mariposa--Like a foolish fellow, you Editors made me believe papers could do all things--The people you see have used us up. When I get to my gold regions & 'back again,' I'll pay you 'in a horn.'' Mosquitoes swarm around him. At right Millard Fillmore emerges from the mouth of a cavern, holding a lantern (a nativist symbol). He confronts Know Nothing founder 'Ned Buntline' (Edward Zane Carroll Judson), a bearded man with two pistols at his waist. Fillmore complains, 'Oh! Ned! Ned! This is all of your doing. After being a popular Whig President--and walking in the footsteps of Clay, Webster & Cass. I am thrown back by the People into the dark & gloomy caverns of Know Nothingism.'
Notes:
Probably drawn by John L. Magee.
Published by I [i.e. John] Childs 84 Sth 3rd. St. Phila.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Weitenkampf, p. 118.
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1856-27.
Subjects:
Bennett, James Gordon,--1795-1872.
Breckinridge, John C.--(John Cabell),--1821-1875.
Buchanan, James,--1791-1868.
Buntline, Ned,--1822 or 3-1886.
Greeley, Horace,--1811-1872.
Webb, J. Watson.--(James Watson),--1802-1884.
Free Soil Party (U.S.)--1850-1860.
Presidential elections--United States--1850-1860.
Lithographs--1850-1860.
Political cartoons--1850-1860.
Bookmark /2008661589/
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