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title: Texas Coming In (pro-Polk cartoon), 1844
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/texas-coming-in-polk-1844/
description: Cartoon of a steamboat "Texas" crossing a bridge to Polk, who waves a flag, while Clay, Frelinghuysen, Webster and another man holding the hauling rope…
section: Collection
---

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# Texas Coming In (pro-Polk cartoon), 1844

Cartoon of a steamboat "Texas" crossing a bridge to Polk, who waves a flag, while Clay, Frelinghuysen, Webster and another man holding the hauling rope are dragged down into Salt River and Garrison on a barrel calls Clay a "blackleg". Tells: annexation shown as irresistible momentum (bandwagon); "blackleg" as a label (name-calling).

## Text on the object

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

```
All hail to James K. Polk, the Frined of our Country !
TEXAS.
Welcome Texas ! welcome brothers.
Polk.
Oh evil day, that ever I got into the footsteps of my predecessor.
If we let go, we are ruined, and if we hold on — Oh ! crackee !
Clay
Curse the day that ever I got hold of this rope ! this is a bad place to let go of it — But I must !
SALT RIVER
Frelinghuysen
Webster
Garrison
Abolition
Avaunt ! unholy man ! I will not keep company with a blackleg.
H. Bucholzer

Lithography and Print Coloring on reasonable terms by James Baillie No 33 Spruce St New York.
TEXAS COMING IN.
Entered according to an Act of Congress in the Year 1844 by James Baillie in the Clerks Office in the District Court of the South.n Dt of New York.
```

Small imprint lines are read from a higher-resolution LOC film copy; reduced confidence on punctuation.

[← Polk in His Extremity (pro-Clay cartoon), 1844](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/polk-in-his-extremity-clay-1844/) [Treeing Coons (pro-Polk cartoon), 1844 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/treeing-coons-polk-1844/)

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