Una scena che colpisce il Kentucky - un attacco razzista contro il candidato democratico alla vicepresidenza Richard M. Johnson. La nomina del congressista del Kentucky, nel maggio 1835, come compagno di corsa di Van Buren per le elezioni del 1836 ha sollevato le sopracciglia anche tra i fedeli del partito, a causa del matrimonio di legge comune di Johnson con una donna mulatto, Julia Chinn, da cui ha paternato due figlie. L'artista ridicola la situazione interna di Johnson e anche la circoscrizione dei Democratici. Seduto su una sedia con la mano sopra il viso, un visibilmente sconvolto Johnson lascia una copia di James Watson Webb 'New York Courier and Enquirer'

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An affecting scene in Kentucky - A racist attack on Democratic vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Johnson. The Kentucky Congressman's nomination, in May 1835, as Van Buren's running-mate for the 1836 election raised eyebrows even among party faithful, because of Johnson's common-law marriage to a mulatto woman, Julia Chinn, by whom he fathered two daughters. The artist ridicules Johnson's domestic situation, and the Democrats' constituency as well. Seated in a chair with his hand over his face, a visibly distraught Johnson lets a copy of James Watson Webb's "New York Courier and Enquirer" fall to the floor and moans, "When I read the scurrilous attacks in the Newspapers on the Mother of my Children, pardon me, my friends if I give way to feelings!!! My dear Girls, bring me your Mother's picture, that I may show it to my friends here." On the right are his two daughters, Adaline and Imogene, wearing elegant evening dresses. One presents a painting of a black woman wearing a turban, and says, "Here it is Pa, but don't take on so." The second daughter says, "Poor dear Pa, how much he is affected." A man behind them exclaims, "Pickle! Pop!! and Ginger!!! Can the slayer of Tecumseh be thus overcome like a summer cloud! fire and furies. oh!" Johnson is reported to have slain the Indian chief Tecumseh during the War of 1812 at the Battle of the Thames in Canada. Flanking Johnson are a gaunt abolitionist (right) and a black man. The abolitionist holds a copy of the "Emancipator, " a Hartford, Connecticut newspaper, and says, "Be comforted Richard; all of us abolitionists will support thee." The black man pledges, ". . . de honor of a Gentlemen dat all de Gentlemen of Colour will support you." On the far left is a stout postmaster who says, "Your Excellency, I am sure all of us Postmasters and deputies will stick to you; if you promise to keep us in office." The print seems to date from early in the campaign of 1836. Johnson's wife Julia Chinn died in 1833. Adaline, one o

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