Bucholzer, H. Purdy, A. still image graphic government publication still image Lithographs-1840-1850. Political cartoons-1840-1850. nyu monographic N.Y Pub. by A. Purdy 1844 eng

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1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 27.8 x 36.6 cm. (image) One of the few satires sympathetic to the Democrats to appear during the 1844 presidential contest. Democratic presidential nominee James Polk is portrayed as a buckskinned hunter who has treed "coons" Henry Clay and Theodore Frelinghuysen. (Clay's nickname "that old coon" had wide currency in the campaign.) Holding a knife in his left hand, Polk grasps the Clay coon by the tail, saying "You've got up the wrong tree this time! Down you must come." At left former President Andrew Jackson stands on a ladder leaning against the "Hickory" tree and chops at the branch holding the two Whigs. He exclaims "Get down from my tree you vermin!" Frelinghuysen says, "from this old man good Lord deliver us!" Clay adds in verse: The state of things is quite surprisin. / Such d--d bad luck my Frelinghuysen. / My struggles are of no avail / For Polk has got me by the Tail. Two other Democrats, John C. Calhoun and Richard M. Johnson, appear as dogs rushing in from the left, saying, "Down with the Coons." Another Democratic ex-President, Martin Van Buren, watches from the right, remarking, "This works according to my wish--The Coons are treed at last." In the right foreground incumbent President John Tyler sets his dogs on the coons, saying, "At them Bobby! Catch them Johnny! Dont let the other dogs get in before you I shall beat them yet." His dogs are son Robert Tyler (labeled "Repeal" for his activism on behalf of the Irish Repeal movement) and John Beauchamp Jones, editor of the newspaper the "Madisonian," organ of the Tyler administration. They also chant, "Down with the Coons." No known restrictions on publication. Drawn by H. Bucholzer. Entered . . . 1844 by A. Purdy. Pub. by A. Purdy. Sold wholesale & retail at 98 Nassau St. N.Y. The print was among a group of nine caricatures by Bucholzer registered for copyright on June 26, 1844. (See also nos. 1844-21 through -27, and 1844-32.) The Library's impression of this print was actually deposited the following day. Title appears as it is written on the item. Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1844-20. Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress) Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 Frelinghuysen, Theodore, 1787-1862 Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 Johnson, Richard M. (Richard Mentor), 1780-1850 Jones, J. B. (John Beauchamp), 1810-1866 Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849 Tyler, John, 1790-1862 Tyler, Robert, 1816-1877 Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862 Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Presidential elections United States 1840-1850 PC/US - 1844.P986, no. 1 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a51297 p. 79 (DLC) 2005680400 2008661421 LC-USZ62-51254 DLC hdl:loc.pnp/cph.3a51297 aacr gihc DLC 940524 20250607030408.1 15594785 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208)