An 1856 cartoon depicting President James Buchanan and Senator Lewis Cass standing on a Democratic platform marked "Kansas", "Cuba" and "Central America". They are pulling the hair of a giant Free Soiler as President Franklin Pierce holds down his beard and Senator Stephen Douglas shoves an African American man down the Free Soiler's throat.
Date: 1856
Item Number: 213508
Call Number: FK2.83 *25
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 213508
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1854-1860 - 1856
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Presidents - Buchanan, James
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Presidents - Pierce, Franklin
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Democrat
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Free Soil
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Cartoon
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861
Type of Material - Cartoons - Political
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