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"Buck" taking the "Pot"

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"Buck" taking the "Pot" (1856)
by Nathaniel Currier

Political cartoon depicting James "Buck" Buchanan (left), John Charles Frémont (center) and Millard Fillmore (right), the three primary candidates during the 1856 United States presidential election.

4283532"Buck" taking the "Pot"1856Nathaniel Currier

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I have fairly beaten them at their own game, and now that I have became possessed of this great Reservoir I will see that each and EVERY STATE of this great and glorious UNION receives its proper Share of this sacred food.

UNION SOUP.

Buchanan


Oh, that I had been born a dog!— This is too much for a mortal man to bear, Had I not stumbled over that BLASTED rock I might have reached the fount of my ambition and with this good ladle “DEAL” to the North, and leave the South to “SHUFFLE & CUT” off their mortal coil, by starvation, I shall have to “PASS.”!—

ABOLITIONROCK OF DISUNION.

Fremont


I regret to say that “GOING IT BLIND” is a loosing Game, I did hope that I would be able to dip my spoon in the POT without much difficulty.— My HAND is played out— “BUCK” wins, and I am satisfied— Four aces can't be beat! and BUCK holds them—

Fillmore


“BUCK” taking the “POT”.

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