--- title: '"Old Jack, the famous New Orleans mouser" (pro-Jackson print, 1832)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/old-jack-mouser-bank-clay-rats-1832/ description: Andrew Jackson, drawn as a large cat (the title calls him 'the famous New Orleans mouser'), pins named opponents drawn as rats on the floor of 'Uncle… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [!["Old Jack, the famous New Orleans mouser" (pro-Jackson print, 1832)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/old-jack-mouser-bank-clay-rats-1832.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/old-jack-mouser-bank-clay-rats-1832.jpg) # "Old Jack, the famous New Orleans mouser" (pro-Jackson print, 1832) Andrew Jackson, drawn as a large cat (the title calls him 'the famous New Orleans mouser'), pins named opponents drawn as rats on the floor of 'Uncle Sam's Barn', while three onlookers cheer him on. Tells: the animal metaphor (opponents shown as vermin, labelled 'Bank and Clay Rats') is name-calling, and the title blames those rats, which 'burrow'd through the floor', for the threat to the 'capital Corn Crib', which is scapegoating. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Brave, my Boys! keep him in the Barn; and no doubt, but he will keep the Rats away. [speech balloon, left onlooker] What a tail he carries! I guess he is of the Kilkenny breed. [speech balloon, right onlooker] How he nicks them. [speech balloon, right onlooker] I keep in my hole whilst he's in sight. [speech balloon, rat in hole at left] My Cloak does not cover me, as well as I could wish, but this Book with it, will be a good passport to the Corn Crib. [speech balloon, rat in cloak at lower left; the book beside it is labelled BIBLE] My case is desperate [label beside the rat in the cat's mouth] Them d'd Clay-Bank Rats brought me to this. [label beside the rat under the cat's paws] The US Bank Rats are very liberal to us Editor Rats, we must stick to them at all risks. [speech balloon, rat at right] No chance for me whilst he's in the Barn. [label beside rat at lower right] Williams Del et Lith 44 Canal Street N.Y. Copyright secur'd. Old Jack, the famous New Orleans mouser, clearing Uncle Sam's Barn of Bank and Clay Rats, which had burrow'd through the floor, to get at his capital Corn Crib: While Uncle Sam, and his active laborers, stand at the door, enjoying the sport. ``` Read from a 1280 px conversion of the LOC master TIFF. The dash in 'd'd' is printed as an apostrophe. The cat's tail may carry a printed label that is not legible at this size, so none is transcribed. [← "Jackson. New Orleans Jany. 8th 1815" (Childs & Inman, 1832)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jackson-new-orleans-eagle-medallion-childs-inman-1832/) [Democratic ticket, "Liberty & equal rights" (Ohio electors for Van Buren and Johnson), 1836 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/democratic-ticket-liberty-equal-rights-van-buren-1836/) ## 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)