Shylock's Year,No Bankrupt Law,Failure of Congress,Bankruptcy,1840,Debtors

Title: Shylock's year, or 1840 with no bankrupt law
Related Names:
White, John C.
Date Created/Published: New-York : Published by John C. White, 1840.
Summary: An unusually well-drawn satire on the failure of Congress to pass a national bankruptcy act before it adjourned in July 1840. The measure was passed by the Senate in May 1840 but later defeated in the House. The drawing and title of the cartoon have anti-semitic overtones. A well-dressed gentleman, evidently a Jew, grips another man by the throat, saying from one side of his mouth, 'Pay me what thou owest' and from the other side, 'Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.' The victim protests, 'Have patience with me.' The dialogue is taken in part from the parable of the unmerciful servant in Matt. 18:25-35. The parable tells of a servant who, pardoned by his master for owing money, put a fellow servant in jail for the same offense.
Notes:
Entered . . . 1840 by John C. White.
Published by John C. White, 141 Nassau-street, New-York.
The Library's impression was deposited for copyright on September 29, 1840, and received in the Department of State on October 2.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
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 1840-65.
Subjects:
Bankruptcy--1840.
Jews--1840.
Political cartoons--1840.
Wood engravings--1840.
Bookmark /2008661400/
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