MAKE A MEME View Large Image Smoking him out.jpg A humorous commentary on Barnburner Democrat Martin Van Buren's opposition to regular Democratic party nominee Lewis Cass Van Buren and his son John were active in the Free Soil effort to prevent the extension of slavery ...
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Keywords: Smoking him out.jpg A humorous commentary on Barnburner Democrat Martin Van Buren's opposition to regular Democratic party nominee Lewis Cass Van Buren and his son John were active in the Free Soil effort to prevent the extension of slavery into new American territories In this he opposed the conservative Cass who advocated deferring to popular sovereignty on the question In Smoking Him Out Van Buren and his son wearing smock far right feed an already raging fire in a dilapidated barn radical New York Democrats supporting Van Buren were referred to as Barnburners because in their zeal for social reforms and anticurrency fiscal policy they were likened to farmers burning their barns to drive out the rats Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division American Cartoon Prints Collection http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/cph 3a40411 1848 Creator Nathaniel Currier PD published in U S prior to 1923 LOC-image cph 3a40411 PD-old-100 1848 cartoons 1840s political cartoons of the United States 1848 in the United States 1848 engravings Caricatures of Martin Van Buren Barns in art Free Soil Party
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