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| Keywords: The Hunter of Kentucky.jpg en Henry Clay is the hunter and various Democrats his quarry Clay wears a fringed buckskin outfit and coonskin cap reminiscent of Davy Crockett and the Western characters of the contemporary stage such as Nimrod Wild-Fire or Jibbenainosay In Bucholzer's earlier cartoon Treeing Coons no 1844-20 James Polk wears a similar costume He grasps a rattlesnake with the head of incumbent President John Tyler In his belt are two trophies the Van Buren fox and Polk goose He stands on the trunk of a felled Hickory tree an allusion to Democratic patriarch Andrew Jackson while an eagle hovers over him displaying a ribbon with the Whig campaign slogan Honor To Whom Honor Is Due Clay says Thus perish the enemies of my Country and of the People who have honored me with their suffrages To the left stands Clay's running-mate Theodore Frelinghuysen holding John C Calhoun and Thomas Hart Benton by the seats of their trousers He addresses Clay Here noble Hunter I have found two non-descript Animals One of them is continually bawling about mint drops and the other is yelling about disunion and nullification Mint drops slang for gold coin were popular symbols of Benton's hard-money philosophy Calhoun's leadership in the South's movement for nullification of the federal tariff of 1828 marked him as an advocate of disunion Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division James Baillie 1844 PD-old 1844 cartoons Caricatures of Henry Clay Caricatures of John Tyler Caricatures of Martin Van Buren Caricatures of James K Polk Theodore Frelinghuysen John Calhoun Thomas Hart Benton senator | ||||
