"Texas Coming In"

This is a pro-Democrat cartoon forecasting the collapse of Whig opposition to the annexation of Texas. James K. Polk, the expansionist candidate, stands at right near a bridge spanning the "Salt River." He holds an American flag and hails Texans Stephen Austin (left) and Samuel Houston aboard a wheeled steamboat-like vessel named "Texas." Austin, waving the flag of the Lone Star Republic, cries, "All hail to James K. Polk, the friend of our Country!" Holding onto a rope attached to "Texas" above, the foes of annexation are dragged into Salt River. Led by Whig presidential nominee Henry Clay, they are (left to right) Theodore Frelinghuysen, Daniel Webster, Henry A. Wise, and an unidentified figure whose legs are tangled in the rope. Clay says: "Curse the day that ever I got hold of this rope! this is a bad place to let go of it--But I must!" Frelinghuysen says: "Oh evil day, that ever I got into the footsteps of my predecessor." Webster states: "If we let go, we are ruined, and if we hold on--Oh! crackee!" Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, straddling a barrel labeled "Abolition" in the river, shouts at Clay, "Avaunt! unholy man! I will not keep company with a blackleg!" - referring to the Clay's reputation as a gambler.

Date:
1844
Original Format:
Cartoon
Item#:
11.057
Height:
2244px
Width:
2868px
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