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).
- 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
- BandwagonName-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 2008661429)
Text on the object
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.
