The Propagation Society. More free than welcome,c1855,anti-Catholic cartoon

Title: The Propagation Society. More free than welcome
Creator(s): N. Currier (Firm),
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : For sale [by Nathaniel Currier] at no. 2 Spruce St., c1855.
Summary: An anti-Catholic cartoon, reflecting the nativist perception of the threat posed by the Roman Church's influence in the United States through Irish immigration and Catholic education. The 'Propagation Society' is probably the Catholic proselytizing organization, the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. At right, on a shore marked 'United States,' Brother Jonathan, whittling, leans against a flagpole flying the stars and stripes. 'Young America,' a boy in a short coat and striped trousers, stands at left, holding out a Bible toward Pope Pius IX, Potters Field, when you die. Kneel then! and kiss our big toe in token of submission.' Brother Jonathan: 'No you dont, Mr. Pope! your'e altogether too willing; but you cant put 'the mark of the Beast' on Americans.' Young America: 'You can neither coax, nor frighten our boys, Sir! we can take care of our own worldly affairs, and are determind to 'Know nothing' but this book, to guide us in spiritual things.' ('Know nothing' is a 'double entendre,' alluding also to the nativist political party of the same name.) First bishop: 'I cannot bear to see that boy, with that horrible book.' Second bishop: 'Only let us get a good foot hold on the soil, and we'll burn up those Books and elevate this Country to the Same degree of happiness and prosperity, to which we have brought Italy, Spain, Ireland and many other lands.' Third bishop: 'Sovereign Pontiff! say that if his friends, have any money, when he dies; they may purchase a hole, for him in my cemetery, at a fair price.' Fourth bishop: 'Go ahead Reverend Father; I'll hold our boat by this sprig of shamrock.' The Gale catalog lists another, smaller print issued by Currier in 1853, entitled 'The Propagation Society--More Freedom than Welcome.'
Notes:
Entered ... 1855 by Peter Smith [i.e., Nathaniel Currier] ...
The Library's impression of the present version was deposited for copyright on July 19, 1855.
Probably drawin by Louis Maurer.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5382
Weitenkampf, p. 114
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1855-4.
Subjects:
Young America (personified).
Brother Jonathan.
Catholic Church, hostility toward.
Immigration.
Irish-Americans.
Know Nothings.
Pius IX, pope.
Society for the Propagation of the Faith.
Schools.
Lithographs--1850-1860.
Political cartoons--1850-1860.
Bookmark /2003656589/
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