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Title: The model of a Republican president
Description: Anti-Jackson cartoon concerning Jackson's misuse of federal authority during the Bank War depicting the president as an autocrat emulating Napoleon Bonaparte. Standing beside a statue of the Emperor, Jackson puts on a Napoleon hat in front of a mirror, boasts of his resemblance to Bonaparte, and declares, "Down with the Senate." Attorney General Roger B. Taney, who squats by Jackson's side, places a pillow inscribed "Treasury" on the president's stomach to make him more "pursey" in order to complete his transformation if he "can bear the weight." Nearby compliant Jackson advisor Martin Van Buren states he deserves the purse as a reward for his war service. To the right, in front of the Senate archway, Treasury auditor Amos Kendall and a second figure of Taney discuss the "Protest to the Senate" and "Counter Protest" they have written for Jackson, probably an allusion to the controversial message written by Kendall and Taney about Jackson's veto of the bill to recharter the Bank of the United States., Title from item., Date supplied by Weitenkampf., Printed to right of title: ("I have taken your brother for my model") General Jackson to Joseph Bonaparte, Globe.", Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Date: [1832?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1832-8 [5760.F.52]

Title: The people putting responsibility to the test or the downfall of the kitchen cabinet and collar presses
Description: Cartoon predicting the dire consequences to follow President Jackson's withdrawal of federal funds from the Bank of the United States. Depicts a riot in which Supreme Court Justice John Marshall warns that "the day of retribution is at hand" as anti-bank fiscal advisors Reuben Whitney and Thomas Ellicott use a rope to pull down a statue of Justice, depicted as a white woman holding scales and stepping on a snake, from a pedestal labeled "Constitution." An angry mob of white men farmers, laborers, and tradesmen carry instruments including axes, pitchforks, and shovels and papers labeled, “Broken Bank.” They fight and demand the recharter of the bank, shouting "Send back the deposites! Recharter the Bank!" and "Come back old responsibility." In the right, Jackson escapes on the back of "Jack Downing" cursing Postmaster General Kendall, "By the Eternal Major Downing; I find Ive been a mere tool to that Damn'd Amos [Kendall] and his set, the sooner I cut stick the better." In the left background, under "Senate Chamber," Henry Clay gloats to Daniel Webster and John Calhoun, "Behold Senators the fulfilment of my predictions." In the left foreground, two African American men, portrayed in racist caricature and speaking in the vernacular, predict freedom and the ascension to the throne of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, "Hurrah! for Massa Garison, den he shall be King!" A Jewish banker, portrayed in caricature, undercuts a sailor offering him a ten dollar bank note, "Mine Got that ish one of the Pet Bankhs I'll give you one Dollar for the Ten." In the right foreground, newspapers supportive of Jackson, "collar presses," symbolized as dogs with human heads labeled "Evening Post, N. York Standard, Journal of Commerce, Albany Argus," run away chained together., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the Clerk's Office for the Southern District of New York by T.W. Whitley in the year 1834, and for sale at 104 Broadway., RVCDC, 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Whitley was a mid-19th-century New York landscape and figure painter who also wrote about art and drama for the New York Herald.
Creator: Whitley, T. W. (Thomas W.), artist
Date: 1834
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1834-7 [1884.F.3]

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