Content note: 1868 print attacking the Republican record, with racial caricature. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Jacobin Radical Republican Record: a legacy for the people! $2,700,000,000 debt!! an expensive luxury
Anti-Republican print in the form of a 'Feed-Mans Bureau' sideboard whose books and drawers list grievances: the national debt, taxation, Reconstruction, Black suffrage, the Andrew Johnson impeachment and the Whisky Ring. The party is labelled 'Jacobin' and 'Radical' in the title and the sideboard is topped with caricatured Black faces and a bottle.
- Date
- 1868
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Unknown (publisher not identified)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Andrew Johnson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Event
- 1868 US Election
- Techniques
- Name-callingCard stacking
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1868; over 150 years old); LOC records no known restrictions on publication
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
