Print comments on the issue of the annexation of Texas by the United States in the 1844 U.S. Presidential election. President Tyler is depicted uncomfortably astride a Democratic "Tex-ass" with Democratic candidate James Polk who has annoyed Tyler by his adoption of annexation as his own cause in the election. Whig candidate Henry Clay, astride a white horse, argues against annexation as proposed by Tyler and supported by Polk. Former President Andrew Jackson (Democratic Party), stands by a tree with a noose, inviting Polk to turn over Tyler so Jackson can "annex" him by the noose to the tree
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Printed area measures 43.5 x 32.0 cm.
Publisher:
H.R. Robinson, 142 Nassau Street, E.W.C. (signed on stone, E. Clay)
Subject (Geographic):
United States, United States., Texas, and Texas.
Subject (Name):
Polk, James K. 1795-1849 (James Knox),, Clay, Henry, 1777-1852, Tyler, John, 1790-1862, Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845, Equal Rights Party (N.Y.), Equal Rights Party (New York, N.Y.), Whig Party (U.S.), and Democratic Party (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Presidents, Election, Caricatures and cartoons, History, Animals, Symbolic aspects, Public buildings, and Annexation to the United States
Print satirizes the United States politics; on left, a barrel labeled "White House gruel" guarded by an aproned man; a boy asks "Please, boss, I want some more."; a banner reading "annexation veto" hangs from his coat-tails; to right in background, a table full of others, speaking; one is labeled "Tex." Includes caricatures of John Tyler, Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson, and Henry Clay
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +152: Handwritten on recto below image: 1844.
Publisher:
printed & published by E. Jones
Subject (Geographic):
United States and Texas
Subject (Topic):
Presidents, Election, and Annexation to the United States
Autograph manuscript letter from R. B. Robinson, editor and proprietor of The Kanawha Advance in Charleston, West Virginia, to Benjamin F. Jones, chairman of the Republican National Committee, dated 1884 September 22. Robinson asks for funds to support the publication of The Kanawha Advance, "the only colored newspaper in the state." Robinson also reports that the Democrats are gaining support among African Americans in Ohio and West Virginia ahead of the 1884 presidential election, but claims that a unified republican vote among West Virginia African Americans would secure the state for the party. Enclosed is a clipping from The Kanawha Advance dated 20 September 188[4] reporting on the first Colored Men of West Virginia state convention held in Charleston on 18 September, during which Robinson was appointed chairman of the State Executive Committee of the Colored Men of West Virginia
Description:
Robert B. Robinson was an African American newspaper owner and editor born in Alexandria, Virginia in 1848, to Reverend Robert H. Robinson (1824-1909) and Mary Ann Warwick Robinson (1832-1899). With his brother Magnus L. Robinson (1852-1918), he founded the The Virginia Post in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in the late 1870s. In the 1880s, Robinson managed the Virginia branch of The Washington Bee, and established The Kanawha Advance newspaper in Charleston, West Virginia. Robinson was involved with the Republican Party and the Readjuster Party., Benjamin Franklin Jones (1824-1903) was an iron and steel industrialist in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1884-1888., In English., and Accompanied by an envelope featuring manuscript notes about the letter in an unidentified hand.
Subject (Geographic):
West Virginia., United States, and West Virginia
Subject (Name):
Jones, Benjamin F. 1824-1903. (Benjamin Franklin),, Robinson, R. B. 1848- (Robert B.),, Colored Men of West Virginia., and Republican National Committee (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
African American newspaper editors, African American newspapers, African Americans, Political activity, Presidents, Election, and Politics and government
A satire on the impact of John Binns's anti-Jackson "coffin handbill" campaign during the presidential race of 1828. Editor-publisher Binns struggles under a load of coffins, representing eight soldiers whose executions were ordered by Jackson, upon which are figures of Clay (left) and incumbent President John Quincy Adams (right). Clay encourages Adams to hold on to the President's chair
Alternative Title:
Desperate effort
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printed area measures 23.8 x 34.8 cm., and Imprint suggested by metadata for the colored states of this print held by the Library of Congress.
Publisher:
James Akin?
Subject (Geographic):
United States and United States.
Subject (Name):
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848, Clay, Henry, 1777-1852, Binns, John, 1772-1860, Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848., Binns, John, 1772-1860., and Clay, Henry, 1777-1852.
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, History, Presidents, and Election
