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
"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.
- Date
- 1836
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- H. R. Robinson, New York (print publisher; LOC attributes the artwork to Edward Williams Clay)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Jackson Administration
- Leader
- Andrew Jackson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- 1836 US Election
- Techniques
- Name-callingTransfer
- 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 1836, US; LOC rights note: "No known restrictions on publication."
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Text on the object
[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').
