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| Keywords: Politicalcartoon1850.jpg The artist attacks abolitionist Free Soil and other sectionalist interests of 1850 as dangers to the Union He singles out for indictment radical abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison Pennsylvania Free Soil advocate David Wilmot New York journalist Horace Greeley and Southern states' rights spokesman Senator John C Calhoun The three wear fool's caps and gather like the witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth round a large boiling cauldron adding to it sacks marked Free Soil Abolition and Fourierism added by Greeley a vocal exponent of the doctrines of utopian socialist Charles Fourier Sacks of Treason Anti-Rent and Blue Laws already simmer in the pot Wilmot Bubble bubble toil and trouble / Boil Free Soil / Ther Union spoil; / Come grief and moan / Peace be none / Til we divided be Garrison Bubble bubble toil and trouble / Abolition / Our condition / Shall be altered by / Niggars strong as goats / Cut your master's throats / Abolition boil / We divide the spoil Greeley Bubble buble sic toil and trouble / Fourierism / War and schism / Till disunion come In the background stands the aging John Calhoun He announces For success to the whole mixture we invoke our great patron Saint Benedict Arnold The latter rises from the fire under the pot commending them Well done good and faithful servants lithograph with watercolor on wove paper ; 27 x 39 2 cm image Library of Congress CALL NUMBER PC/US - 1850 B157 no 42 B size P P 1850 James S Baillie yes - restored version of Image Politicalcartoon1850unrestored jpg with dirt removed sharpened levels adjusted PD-old Caricatures of the United States Politics of the United States 1850 in the United States Fourierism Treason William Lloyd Garrison Horace Greeley John Calhoun Free Soil Party | ||||
