--- title: '''The Fox Chace'', Whig cartoon of Van Buren hunted by cider-barrel hounds, 1840' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-fox-chace-van-buren-harrison-childs-1840/ description: Van Buren as a fox, a 'Treasury' bird round his neck, flees hounds with hard-cider-barrel bodies toward Harrison, who blocks the White House steps with a… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [!['The Fox Chace', Whig cartoon of Van Buren hunted by cider-barrel hounds, 1840](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/the-fox-chace-van-buren-harrison-childs-1840.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/the-fox-chace-van-buren-harrison-childs-1840.jpg) # 'The Fox Chace', Whig cartoon of Van Buren hunted by cider-barrel hounds, 1840 Van Buren as a fox, a 'Treasury' bird round his neck, flees hounds with hard-cider-barrel bodies toward Harrison, who blocks the White House steps with a pitchfork, while Webster and Clay give chase. The tells are the animal label on Van Buren and, for bandwagon, the whole pack of cider barrels (marked 'Reform 1841', 'Better Times') and Webster and Clay all running the same way toward Harrison, drawing the Whig side as the winning crowd with the White House already in reach. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` [Harrison:] Oh ho! you are making for the White house my boy! but it's no longer a cover for you, I'm put here to keep you out of it! [Webster:] He is nearly run out! he will not go another turn! see how his tail droops! [Clay:] Hoicks! Hoicks! Tallyho! Look out General or he'll get into his hole! [Van Buren, as the fox:] I must get to cover as soon as possible, my race is nearly run! D-n these cider barrel hounds. [On the fox:] Treasury [On the barrel-hounds:] TIP'S DOG HARD CIDER 1841. REFORM 1841 BETTER TIMES [Names under the figures:] Harrison Van Buren Webster Clay Price 25 Cents. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1840 by J. Childs in the Clerk's office in the District court for the S. District of N.Y. THE FOX CHACE. ``` Read from the 1536 x 1135 px LOC master. Speaker attributions in square brackets follow the name labels and the LOC description. 'get' in Clay's balloon is partly crossed by a whip line; 'BETTER TIMES' is partly hidden. Monogram, library numbers and the hand-written 'Deposited in the Clerk's office' note omitted. [← 'The People's Line -- Take care of the Locomotive', Whig woodcut, 1840](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/peoples-line-take-care-of-the-locomotive-1840/) ['National Democratic Republican Nomination' broadside for Van Buren and Johnson, 1840 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/van-buren-johnson-democratic-nomination-broadside-1840/) ## 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)