MAKE A MEME View Large Image James Buchanan coat cartoon.jpg en From Library of Congress Democratic presidential candidate James Buchanan is depicted as a poor bachelor in his squalid quarters Though indeed a confirmed bachelor Buchanan in reality was hardly needy ...
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Keywords: James Buchanan coat cartoon.jpg en From Library of Congress Democratic presidential candidate James Buchanan is depicted as a poor bachelor in his squalid quarters Though indeed a confirmed bachelor Buchanan in reality was hardly needy After serving as American minister to Great Britain he was nominated on June 2 at his party's Cincinnati convention Here he sits in a small dimly lit chamber on a rickety chair near a small cot A cracked mirror hangs on the wall in the background and his foot rests upon a stool with a spool and scissors A needle and thread in his hand Buchanan examines a ragged coat on which he has evidently just sewn a patch marked Cuba This is probably a reference to his authorship of the Ostend Manifesto of 1854 which proposed that the United States annex or seize Cuba On this see also The Ostend Doctrine no 1854-6 Buchanan says My Old coat was a very fashionable Federal coat when it was new but by patching and turning I have made it quite a Democratic Garment That Cuba patch to be sure is rather unsightly but it suits Southern fashions at this season and then If I am elected let me see 25 000 pr annum and no rent to pay and no Women and Babies about I guess I can afford a new outfit Buchanan's words here suggest that the desire to extend American slave territory motivated his Ostend designs on Cuba His mention of converting a Federal coat to a Democratic one refers to his 1828 conversion from Federal party man to Jacksonian Democrat http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/cph 3b06897 N Currier 1856 Previously located on the English Wikipedia transferred here PD-old Caricatures of James Buchanan 1850s political cartoons of the United States Footstools in art 1856 in the United States Ostend Manifesto
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