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Title: John Van Buren, 1810-1866
Description: Lawyer, New York politician., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.30b]

Title: A Correct chart of Salt River
Description: "Salt River," the fictitious river of political doom, is charted here as a meandering stream of Democratic misfortunes. The chart was purportedly "prepared by Father Ritchie," i.e., Democratic editor and Polk administration spokesman Thomas Ritchie. Swipes are taken at the Tariff of 1846, Polk's Vice President George M. Dallas, Martin Van Buren, and 1848 Democratic presidential nominee Lewis Cass. The river winds upward from the Ohio River (Ohio was a Democratic stronghold in 1848) to the Lake of Oblivion with an island on which sits the "Mansion of Despair." The "Fast Sailing Steamer Free Trade," captained by Lewis Cass and piloted by Ritchie, sets out on the "Slough of Despond" below (one of the landmarks in John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress). The ship approaches a fork, from which the "Old Fox Branch" on the right leads to "Cabbage Point" and the home of Martin Van Buren. Van Buren can be seen sitting in a rowboat on the river complaining, "Hard work this all; your fault 'John, ' with your D--d Free Trade." His son John, a Free Soil party leader and campaigner, encouraged Van Buren's bid for the party's presidential nomination in 1848. On the left Salt River continues past the "Sub Treasury Bluffs," "Noise and Confusion Shoals," "Two Face Points," and "Irish Relief Shoal" (a reference to Democratic support for anti-British insurgents in Ireland), to another fork, "Prince John's Creek." Here John Van Buren walks along the shore and calls, "Good bye Dad! We could not Gull the People." The main branch of the river continues to "Pillow's Cemetery" (named after Gen. Gideon Pillow, conspirator against popular Mexican War commander Winfield Scott and a friend of James K. Polk), "One Seal Island", "Casting Vote Point," and "St Anna Pass." The last is named after Mexican president and commander Santa Anna, whom the Polk administration returned from exile only to see him lead the war against the Americans. On Lake Oblivion is a small ferry boat heads toward the shore at upper right where it will connect with a train named "Tariff [of 18]42," bound for Washington. On the left is a funerary monument "In Memory of Dallas," a memorial to Vice President and former Pennsylvania senator George M. Dallas. Many of Dallas's fellow Pennsylvanians viewed him as a traitor to the state's interests in his support of the Tariff of 1846, which supplanted the popular 1842 tariff., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Library copy has manuscript written on lower right recto: March 5th, 1849., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1848-50 [P.2275.28]

Title: M'Clellan & Pendleton One flag & one country The Central Democratic McClellan Club, in accordance with the wishes of the people, have fixed upon Wednesday, November 2, at 10 o'clock, A.M., for holding a grand mass meeting, in Doylestown, to which they cordially invite their brethren from Northampton, Lehigh, Montgomery, Philadel'a, as well as our New Jersey friends! Come one, come all Come in your strength, as your fathers came in the days of Jackson and Polk; come in delegations of hundreds and thousands, with your wives, your daughters and sweethearts; come with your big teams, your small wagons, your carriages, on horseback and on foot; come with your banners, your flags and hickory poles. Come as white freemen! to rejoice over the victory won in October last, come prepared to strike the death blow on November eighth to Lincoln despotism. Lincoln debts, Lincoln taxes, Lincoln drafts, Lincoln war, death, misery, and Lincoln misrule in general, so that, God willing, peace and prosperity, the Union, Constitution, and liberty, may at an early day, again bless the states and the people. There will be a grand procession, with bands of music, and the thirty-four states will be represented by a cavalcade of ladies!! The committee have secured the Doylestown exhibition grounds, where teams can be driven for safety. Arrangements have been made there to feed horses, aad [sic] men will be in readiness to give attention to all that drive to that place. Oats will be furnished at $1 per bushel. List of speakers: Gov. Parker [sic], Hon. John Van Buren, Hon. Samuel S. Cox, Hon. William H. Witte, Hon. Hester [sic] Clymer, Hon. Wm. A. Wallace. October 26, 1864
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Central Democratic McClellan Club
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 5# Am 1864 Central (5)5777.F.46 (McAllister)

Title: The Democratic platform
Description: Cartoon satirizing politicians' support of James Buchanan and the Democratic platform of 1856. Depicts Buchanan as "the platform" of his party prostrate across the backs of the kneeling antislavery advocate Senator Thomas Benton ("Old Bullion"), President Franklin Pierce ("Franklin the last"), and son of Martin Van Buren, John Van Buren ("Prince John"). An enslaved African American man, portrayed in racist caricature, sits atop Buchanan’s legs with his arms crossed. Sitting opposite him atop Buchanan’s chest is a white man enslaver, armed with a whip, knives, and a pistol, who declares, “I don’t care anything about the Supporters of the platform as long as the platform supports me and my Nigger.” Underneath Buchanan, Benton replies to Pierce's question of how he can be against his administration yet for "this platform" by stating that he supports Buchanan because his motto is "Men - not principles." (This is a reversal of the Democratic motto: "Principles, not men.") Simultaneously, Van Buren talks with his father "Martin the first," depicted as a fox in his "Kinderhook" burrow, about the changing policies of the great Democratic Party and the plunder to be had. Standing in the left, "Brother Jonathan" (predecessor of Uncle Sam) notes the unreliability of the "platform supporters.", Title from item., Date supplied by Weitenkampf., Purchase 1971., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1856-16W [7996.F]

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