Sale of dogs,Presidential Election,Political Cartoon,Abolition,Van Buren,1844

Title: Sale of dogs
Related Names:
Baillie, James S., fl. 1838-1855.
Bucholzer, H.
Date Created/Published: 1844.
Summary: Seeking a middle course between the issues of the annexation of Texas on one hand and abolitionism on the other, Van Buren lost the support of southern Democrats, including elderly statesman Andrew Jackson. Here the artist portrays Van Buren as a dog with a fox's bushy tail, leading his master (Jackson) astray. Jackson says, 'Matty! Matty! it strikes me that you are leading me wrong--By the eternal! we shan't find Texas here.' Van Buren insists, 'We must take a middle course, boos. Salt river is on one side, and abolitionism is on the other.' To their left is a man wearing striped pants and holding by their tails two dogs with the heads of James Polk and George Dallas. The man may be Brother Jonathan (as Weitenkampf suggests) or, judging from his boldly striped trousers, a representative of Loco Foco Democrats. He says to Jackson, 'Here, Almighty sir! are a couple of pups well broken, who will come when you whistle for them & go where you wish. 'That dog' has too much fox in him.' Polk and Dallas were chosen Democratic nominees in late May.
Notes:
Entered . . . 1844 by James Baillie.
Lithography & print coloring on reasonable terms by James Baillie No. 33 Spruce St. New York.
Signed: H. Bucholzer.
The Library's impression was deposited for copyright on August 7, 1844.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Weitenkampf, p. 73.
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 1844-38.
Subjects:
Dallas, George Mifflin,--1792-1864.
Jackson, Andrew,--1767-1845.
Polk, James K.--(James Knox),--1795-1849.
Van Buren, Martin,--1782-1862.
Equal Rights Party (New York, N.Y.)--1840-1850.
Abolition movement--1840-1850.
Presidential elections--United States--1840-1850.
Lithographs--1840-1850.
Political cartoons--1840-1850
Bookmark /2008661439/
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