--- title: '''Federal-Abolition-Whig Trap, to Catch Voters In'', New Orleans broadside, 1840' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anti-whig-log-cabin-trap-broadside-new-orleans-1840/ description: Woodcut of a man on all fours sucking a 'Hard Cider' barrel under a tilted log cabin, above a text warning 'People of Louisiana' against Whig campaign… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [!['Federal-Abolition-Whig Trap, to Catch Voters In', New Orleans broadside, 1840](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/anti-whig-log-cabin-trap-broadside-new-orleans-1840.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/anti-whig-log-cabin-trap-broadside-new-orleans-1840.jpg) # 'Federal-Abolition-Whig Trap, to Catch Voters In', New Orleans broadside, 1840 Woodcut of a man on all fours sucking a 'Hard Cider' barrel under a tilted log cabin, above a text warning 'People of Louisiana' against Whig campaign methods. The tell is the loaded vocabulary applied to the other side: 'bank-parlor, ruffle-shirt, silk-stocking GENTRY', 'loafers', 'suckers', 'Federal Bank Whig Motto'. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` FEDERAL BANK WHIG MOTTO. "WE STOOP TO CONQUER." [Woodcut; barrel label:] HARD CIDER FEDERAL-ABOLITION-WHIG TRAP. TO CATCH VOTERS IN. PEOPLE OF LOUISIANA, above you have an accurate representation of the federal "Log-Cabin" Trap, invented by the bank-parlor, ruffle-shirt, silk-stocking GENTRY, for catching the votes of the industrious and laboring classes, of our citizens, of both town and country. The federal party has always looked upon the poor, laboring people as an ignorant class, destitute of reason and common sense. Hence they always, as in the present contest for the presidency, appeal to their passions, with mockeries, humbugs, shows, and parades, with the view of blinding and leading them away from the true principles of the constitution of their country. In the above cut, you have a typical illustration of the means they resort to, to get your votes. The "log cabin" is raised to blind you with the belief, that they are your friends; and they have invented what they say is a poor man's drink, called 'Hard Cider,' generally made of 'bald-face' whiskey and water, with a little sour vinegar added. They place this drink in a barrel, inside of the 'cabin,' for the purpose of enticing you in, thinking that if they can once get you to take a suck, you are safe. Do you not see the man above, creeping in? Just let him get a taste, and they come down at once upon him, hard and heavy, swig after swig, until they get him in a ranting way, shouting and bawling for Tip. and Ty. as though they had caught the devil himself. These vote traps are generally set and baited in cities and towns, and are usually infested by a considerable swarm of loafers. Do you see that fellow up there now? How slily he creeps under, on all-fours, with his lips poked out, to steal a suck. He is a loafer-not much to be made by him, if they catch him. And they think that the industrious, hard-working people of the country, have no better sense than to be caught just that way. They have one of these traps setting here in New Orleans; just like the above, for all the world-only the logs are not so close. They have, however, made a bad business of it. No one has been caught but loafers, and they creep out between the logs, as fast as they catch them-unless it is occasionally a fellow who gets h[i]s belly popped out so full with 'hard cider,' that he has to remain awhile and go through the roll and tumble system, before he can squeeze through. We believe it is now nearly deserted. No one goes to bait it, and of course no one goes to nibble and suck. People of Louisiana, what think you of the invention? Are you willing to swallow the bait? We have just understood that one at each of the towns of Monroe and Franklin, in this state, has been set, triggered, and baited; but we have not learned whether they have yet been able to catch many suckers. [handwritten, right margin, later library annotation: illegible] ``` Read from the 1191 x 1536 px LOC master (soft film-copy scan). Line-end hyphenations joined; one word is blotted ('h[i]s'). Italic emphasis not marked. The hand-written marginal note (right edge) is a library annotation, marked [illegible] above because it is not clearly legible. [← "Grand match between the Kinderhook poney and the Ohio ploughman", April 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/grand-match-kinderhook-poney-ohio-ploughman-harrison-1836/) ['Going up Salt River', Van Buren-friendly cartoon published by John Childs, 1840 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/going-up-salt-river-van-buren-childs-1840/) ## Using the same techniques - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (Electoral Saxony · 1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (Dutch Republic · 1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (Great Britain · 1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [The North Briton, No. XLV, 23 April 1763 (John Wilkes), opening page](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/north-briton-no-45-wilkes-1763/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Apr 23, 1763 · Name-calling) - [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd. - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (France · 1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)