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The Great Republican Reform Party, Calling on Their Candidate.
New York: [Currier & Ives?], No. 2 Spruce St., [1856]. Lithograph, 13.375” x 17.875”. Recent Japanese tissue backing. CONDITION: Good, old vertical crease at center, ending in 1.5” tear at lower central margin with minimal impact to title and imprint, several marginal tears not affecting text or image. An early anti-Republican campaign cartoon sneering at the party’s first-ever presidential candidate, John C. Frémont, and lampooning his supporters as a scattered band of eccentric, unattractive radicals. Frémont hears the requests of his would-be constituents, who are, from left to right, “a temperance advocate, a cigar-smoking, trousered suffragette, a ragged socialist holding a liquor bottle, a spinsterish libertarian, a Catholic priest holding a cross, and a free black dandy” (Reilly). The temperance man requests a law “making the use of tobacco, Animal food, and Lager-bier a Capital Crime”; the suffragette, hand on her hip and spurs on her heels, demands “the recognition of Woman as the equal of man with a right to Vote and hold office”; the socialist, with rags around one foot instead of a shoe, calls for “An equal division of Property”; the flat-chested, long-nosed old woman with a frilly bonnet propositions Frémont to attend “the next meeting our Free Love association…you will, be sure to Enjoy yourself, for we are all Freemounters”; the priest expresses his reliance on Frémont “to place the power of the Pope on a firm footing in this Country”; and the Black man, chin raised to see over his voluminous cravat, states: “De Poppylation ob Color comes in first—arter dat, you may do wot you pleases.” Frémont graciously replies: “You shall all have what you desire—and be sure that the glorious Principles of Popery, Fourierism, Free Love, Womans rights, the Maine Law, and above all the Equality of our Colored bretheren, shall be maintained; if I get into the Presidential Chair.” OCLC records holdings at the University of Delaware, the AAS, Boston Public Library, the Clements Library, Harvard University, and Lincoln Memorial University Library. Additional examples held at the Library of Congress, and the Library Company of Philadelphia. REFERENCES: Reilly 1856-22; Weitenkampf, p. 117; Murrell, p. 185; Gale 2867.
Item #7962
Price: $3,750.00
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