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
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).
- Date
- 1844
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Drawn by H. Bucholzer; lithographed and published by James Baillie, New York
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Tyler Administration
- Leader
- John Tyler
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- 1844 US Election
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain: published 1844, US; LOC rights note: "No known restrictions on publication."
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. (item 2008661432)
Text on the object
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.
