Cartoon satirizing liberal Republicans opposed to the Grant administration's proposed annexation of San Domingo. Depicts the devil holding a gridiron above a roaring flame upon which several bare-footed Republicans are jumping up and down from the heat including Carl Schurz, Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley, and probably Schuyler Colfax and Winfield Scott Hancock. Missouri senator Schurz cries, "I am loud on San Domingo, And I can't be stopped by jingo; Tho' the pain I bear provokes me, And the smell of brimstone chokes me." Sumner calls to two African American men who witness the scene from a cliff, "Come Sambo! jump right on the Gridiron with the rest, while its hot and lively." They reply in the vernacular, "no you don't Massa Sumner; Old Secesh Debble hold dat Gridiron and I guess you burn your foot." Comments from the roasting Republicans demonstrate their disapproval of Grant., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1872 by Currier & Ives in the office of the Librarian of Congress in Washington., Purchase 1958., 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., John Cameron was a Scottish lithographer who worked for many years with the renowned New York lithographic firm Currier and Ives.
Creator
Cameron, John, approximately 1828-, lithographer
Date
1872
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1872-1 [6282.F]
