Marriage of the Free Soil and Liberty parties PGA - Currier &... |
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Options: 1) Download Source Image from Library of Congress 2) If link above doesn't work, try alternate LOC link 3) Report broken link TITLE:Marriage of the Free Soil and Liberty parties CALL NUMBER:PGA - Currier & Ives--Marriage of the free soil... (B size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZ62-10496 (b&w film copy neg.) SUMMARY:A comic portrayal of the alliance between Free Soil Democrats and Whigs and the more extremist abolitionist Liberty party interests during the election campaign of 1848. The factions joined to form the Free Soil party and nominated a presidential candidate in a convention at Buffalo in August. That union is lampooned here as the wedding of Free Soil presidential candidate Martin Van Buren (center left) and a ragged black woman (center right). Van Buren ally Benjamin F. Butler presides over the "marriage." Van Buren, reluctant to embrace the aged bride, is shoved forward by antislavery editor Horace Greeley (left), who says, "Go, Matty, and kiss the bride That is an indispensable part of the ceremony." Van Buren''s son John (far left, here called "John Van Barnburner") also urges him on, "Walk up, dad. You can hold your breath till the ceremony is over, and after that you can do what you please." Van Buren says, "I find that politics, as well as poverty, make one acquainted with strange bedfellows." In contrast, the woman beckons with open arms, "Come here, my flower. You is a great stranger, and I want to get acquainted wid you." A black man behind her says of Van Buren, "I nebber hab berry good pinion ob the gemman; but if he ax pardon for all he hab done and said agin us, I will shake hands wid de genman." A black woman (further right) remarks, "Mercy on me! How bashful he is!" Butler, with arms raised and book in one hand, intones, "Who giveth this man to be married to this woman?" MEDIUM:1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 29 x 42.6 cm. CREATED/PUBLISHED:[New York : Nathaniel Currier], c1848. CREATOR: N. Currier (Firm) NOTES: Title from item. "Entered ... 1848 by Peter Smith [i.e., Nathaniel Currier] ... N.Y." The Library''s impression was deposited for copyright on October 2, 1848. DLC Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4359 Weitenkampf, p. 90 Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1848-52. TOPICS: African Americans (portrayed). FORMAT: Political cartoons 1840-1850. REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a12918 CONTROL #:2003674557
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