Swell Dutcheman of Kinderhook,1836,Biddle,Harrison,Kendall,Martin Van Buren

Title: Set-to between the champion old tip & the swell Dutcheman of Kinderhook -- 1836
Related Names:
Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857.
Robinson, Henry R., d. 1850.
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Printed & published H.R. Robinson, 1836.
Summary: Satire on the presidential campaign of 1836, portraying the contest as a boxing match between Democratic candidate Martin Van Buren and Whig candidate William Henry Harrison. The artist clearly favors Harrison. The work is a variation on an 1834 cartoon which uses the boxing match as a metaphor for the struggle between Andrew Jackson and Nicholas Biddle, president of the Bank of the United States. (See 'Set To Between Old Hickory and Bully Nick,' no. 1834-4). In a ring Van Buren and Harrison spar as their seconds and a crowd of observers stand by. On the left, Van Buren is seconded by Andrew Jackson and 'bottle holder' Amos Kendall. On the right, Harrison's second is a 'Western lad' (a frontiersman in buckskins) and his bottle holder 'Old Seventy-six' (a lame Revolutionary war veteran). The text below the scene identifies Harrison's backers as 'the People' and Van Buren's as 'Office holders & mail Contractors.' Kendall (drinking from the bottle): 'I begin to tremble for Matty -- There appears to be a Surplus Fund in this Bottle, so I'll een take a pull to raise my spirits . . .' Jackson: 'By the Eternal! what a severe counter hit! It's bunged up Matty's peeper, and if he don't keep his other eye open he'ill get a Cross buttock. He begins to be a little queerish already. D--n his Dutch courage! Amos where's the Bottle? after this Round put some more into him.' Van Buren: 'Stand by me Old Hickory or I'm a gone Chicken!' Harrison: 'Look out for your bread-basket Matty, I'll remove the deposits for you.' Jackson's words recall his controversial 1834 order to withdraw federal funds or 'deposits' from the Bank of the United States. Frontiersman: 'Whoop! wake snakes! . . . he [Harrison] puts it into him as fast as a streak of greased lightning through a gooseberry bush. That 'Cold blooded' Kinderhooker will be row'd up Salt River or I'm a nigger!' Old Seventy-six: 'Thank Heaven the People have a Champion at last who will support the Constitution and laws that we fought and bled to obtain . . .'
Notes:
Printed & published by H.R. Robinson, 48 & 52 Cortlandt St. N.Y.
Signed with monogram: C (Edward Williams Clay).
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Davison, no. 82.
Hess & Kaplan, p. 78.
Weitenkampf, p. 45.
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 1836-12.
Subjects:
Biddle, Nicholas,--1786-1844.
Harrison, William Henry,--1773-1841.
Kendall, Amos,--1789-1869.
Van Buren, Martin,--1782-1862.
Bank of the United States--1830-1840.
Legislative bodies--Freedom of debate--1830-1840.
Civil service reform--1830-1840.
Distribution Act.
Downing, Jack or 'Zek' (Fictitious character)
Lithographs--1830-1840.
Political cartoons--1830-1840.
Bookmark /2008661284/
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