Details
Creator Magee, John L., artist.
Title Southern chivalry - argument versus club's. [graphic] / J.L. Magee, del.
Publisher [Philadelphia?] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date [1856]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 34 x 49 cm (13.25 x 19 in.)
Description Cartoon critically addressing the Brooks-Sumner Affair in which Southern Congressman Preston S. Brooks caned antislavery Senator Charles Sumner in the Senate on May 26, 1856. Brook's "chivalrous" attack on Sumner was a reprisal for Sumner's two-day speech, "The Crime against Kansas," which attacked the violence occurring in Kansas over the issue of slavery; the South; and Brook's uncle, Andrew Butler. Depicts Sumner, head bloodied, quill in his raised hand and clutching a paper symbolically inscribed "Kansas.," He is held to the ground by Butler whose face is obscured by his raised arm and hand that holds his cane above his head. Butler is posed in mid-strike. Members of Congress observe in the background, some laughing, some scowling, with one member raising his hands in surrender from another who has his fist and cane raised.
Is referenced by Weitenkampf, p. 115
Nevins and Weitenkampf, p. 80
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Biographical / historical note Magee was a Philadelphia lithographer who established his own lithographic firm in Philadelphia in 1850.
Subject Brooks, Preston S. (Preston Smith), 1819-1857 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
United States. Congress
Abolition movement -- Kansas -- 1850-1860.
Beating -- Washington (D.C)
Brooks-Sumner Affair, 1856.
Fighting -- Washington (D.C.)
Slavery -- United States -- Extension to the territories.
Staffs (Sticks)
Violence -- Kansas.
Geographic subject Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1854-1861.
Genre Anti-slavery prints -- United States -- 1850-1860.
Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Political cartoons -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political Cartoons - 1856-3W [5760.F.105]
Accession number 5760.F.105