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title: Loco Foco Triumphal Honors (pro-Whig cartoon), 1844
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/loco-foco-triumphal-honors-clay-1844/
description: Cartoon of Polk and Dallas carried on a pole by ragged men in stereotyped Irish and Black caricature, with two musicians at left and Tyler as a…
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Cartoon with ethnic and racial caricature of Irish and Black men, including stage-Irish dialect, drawn by a Whig cartoonist and shown unaltered. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Loco Foco Triumphal Honors (pro-Whig cartoon), 1844](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/loco-foco-triumphal-honors-clay-1844.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/loco-foco-triumphal-honors-clay-1844.jpg)

# Loco Foco Triumphal Honors (pro-Whig cartoon), 1844

Cartoon of Polk and Dallas carried on a pole by ragged men in stereotyped Irish and Black caricature, with two musicians at left and Tyler as a weathervane at right; a bearer holding up the vane pole speaks in stage-Irish dialect ('Be dad, I can't carry you if you turn with every flaw of wind'). Tell: the opposing party is labelled 'Loco Foco' and shown as a ragged mob of ethnic caricatures (name-calling).

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Glory to those whom the people" delight to honor !!!
It is true, friend Polk, that on this occasion we shall find no difficulty in bearing our blushing honors meekly.
Dallas.
[Balloon, Polk:] It appears to me, friend Dallas that there is a wonderful democratic simplicity in the honors which are paid us !
Polk.
Tyler.
[Bearer holding the vane pole:] Be dad, I can't carry you if you turn with every flaw of wind.
S  E  W  N

Lithography & print Coloring on reasonable terms by James Baillie No 33 Spruce St New York.
LOCO FOCO TRIUMPHAL HONORS.
Entered according to an Act of Congress in the Year 1844 by James Baillie in the Clerk's office in the District Court of the South.n Dist. of N.Y. [partly illegible]
[handwritten:] Deposited in the Clerks Office for the Southern District of New York July 5. 1844.
```

The copyright line is faint and partly illegible. A closing quotation mark follows "people" with no opening mark, as printed. The label 'Tyler.' is printed above the weathervane figure; the 'Be dad' balloon belongs to the bearer holding the pole. The handwritten deposit line is in the lower margin.

[← For President Henry Clay, for Vice President Theodore Frelinghuysen (Whig badge), 1844](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/clay-frelinghuysen-whaites-badge-1844/) [Polk & Co. Going Up Salt River (pro-Clay cartoon), 1844 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/polk-co-going-up-salt-river-clay-1844/)

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