The Pedlar and his Pack or the Desperate Effort, an Over Balance

by James Akin, attrib

$600 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Rare American political caricature from the famous 1828 race This is an interesting cartoon satirizing the paradoxical effect that negative attacks on Andrew Jackson were having in the famous campaign of 1828. An editor-publisher in Philadelphia named John Binns had published several harsh hand-outs called coffin hand bills that accused Jackson of arbitrary executions of American militia volunteers under his command and Native American prisoners, as well as violent episodes

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