The great American buck hunt of 1856,Millard Fillmore,James Buchanan,photo,rifle
Title: The great American buck hunt of 1856
Creator(s): N. Currier (Firm), satire favoring American party candidate Millard Fillmore. A 'buck' (James Buchanan), White House, John C. Fremont's gun explodes, as he struggles to free himself from a pool of 'Black Mud.' On the far left his two abolitionist supporters Henry Ward Beecher and editor Horace Greeley are also mired in an 'Abolition Bog.' Fremont. Jessie Benton). Greeley: 'Oh! Brother Beecher! our Kansas Gun.Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. violence in Kansas, an issue exploited by the Republicans. Beecher: 'Confound the Gun! if I can only get out of this muss I'll stick to preaching and let fire-arms alone. 'Col. Fremont's Last Grand Exploring Expedition in 1856' (no. 1856-20). On 'Union Rock' (right), which is square in the path toward the White House, stands Millard Fillmore. He aims his flintlock at Buchanan and says confidently, 'Ah! Fremont, your sectional Gun has exploded just as I predicted; but my American rifle will bring down that Old Buck.'
Notes:
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research,>Weitenkampf, p. 118
, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1856-24.
Subjects:
Abolitionism and abolitionists and the Kansas Strife.
Benton, Jessie (Mrs. Charles Fremont).
Buchanan, James, as presidential candidate.
Greeley, Horace, and the Fremont campaign.
Kansas, civil strife over slavery issues in..
Lithographs--1850-1860.
Political cartoons--1850-1860
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