--- title: '"Set-to between the champion Old Tip & the swell Dutchman of Kinderhook", 1836' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/set-to-old-tip-kinderhook-harrison-1836/ description: 'Boxing-ring cartoon of the 1836 race: Harrison, backed by ''the people'', lands a blow on Van Buren, seconded by Jackson and Amos Kendall, ''Office holders…' section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) **Content note:** A frontiersman's speech balloon contains a racial slur used as a casual intensifier, transcribed as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [!["Set-to between the champion Old Tip & the swell Dutchman of Kinderhook", 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/set-to-old-tip-kinderhook-harrison-1836.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/set-to-old-tip-kinderhook-harrison-1836.jpg) # "Set-to between the champion Old Tip & the swell Dutchman of Kinderhook", 1836 Boxing-ring cartoon of the 1836 race: Harrison, backed by 'the people', lands a blow on Van Buren, seconded by Jackson and Amos Kendall, 'Office holders & mail Contractors'. Tells: labels for the rival ('Dutchman', 'Cold Blooded Kinderhooker', a racial slur) and a Revolutionary veteran who hails Harrison as 'my old Comrade', lending the war's standing to him. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` [Balloon, Kendall] I begin to tremble for Matty— There appears to be a Surplus Fund in this Bottle, so I'll een take a pull to raise my spirits Oh dear [Balloon, Jackson] By the Eternal! what a severe counter hit! It's bunged up Matty's peeper, and if he don't keep his other eye open he'll get a Cross buttock. He begins to be a little queerish already. D—n his Dutch courage! Amos where's the Bottle? after this Round put some more into him [Balloon, Van Buren] Stand by me Old Hickory or I'm a gone Chicken! [Balloon, Harrison] Look out for your bread-basket —Matty, I'll remove the deposits for you. [Balloon, frontiersman] Whoop! wake snakes! Go it Old Tip! by the Immortals he puts it into him as fast as a streak of greased lightning through a gooseberry bush. That Cold Blooded Kinderhooker will be row'd up Salt river or I'm a nigger! [Balloon, veteran] Thank Heaven the people have a Champion at last who will support the Constitution and laws that we fought and bled to obtain. Huzza for my old Comrade SET-TO BETWEEN THE CHAMPION OLD TIP & THE SWELL DUTCHMAN OF KINDERHOOK—1836 Second to the Champion: the Western Lad—Bottle-holder Old Seventy six.—Backers the people. Second to the Kinderhooker: Old Hickory—Bottle-holder little Amos of the Post Office. Backers: Office holders & mail Contractors Printed & Published by H. R. Robinson 48 & 52 Cortlandt St. N.Y. ``` Read from the 1,536-px master scan; engraved script is clear. The racial slur in the frontiersman's balloon is transcribed as printed. 'Bunged' (not 'banged') is the reading of the 1,280-px image. The street name in the imprint reads 'Cortlandt' (the final letters are small and could be read 'Cortland'). [← "Political race course - Union Track - fall races 1836"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/political-race-course-union-track-harrison-1836/) ["Grand match between the Kinderhook poney and the Ohio ploughman", April 1836 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/grand-match-kinderhook-poney-ohio-ploughman-harrison-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)