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title: '"The Whig Organ" (Frank Bellew, The Lantern, 28 August 1852)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/whig-organ-scott-bellew-1852/
description: A street organ-grinder turns an organ labelled 'TRIBUNE' and 'BATTLE OF CHAPULTEPEC' while a plumed-hat monkey points; a small dog on a leash with a…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Caricature of a general as a monkey on a street organ. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!["The Whig Organ" (Frank Bellew, The Lantern, 28 August 1852)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/whig-organ-scott-bellew-1852.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/whig-organ-scott-bellew-1852.jpg)

# "The Whig Organ" (Frank Bellew, The Lantern, 28 August 1852)

A street organ-grinder turns an organ labelled 'TRIBUNE' and 'BATTLE OF CHAPULTEPEC' while a plumed-hat monkey points; a small dog on a leash with a human-like face sits at lower left; sub-title: 'Exhibiting a specimen of the feathered tribe'. LOC's old caption card (unverified), not any printed label, identifies the grinder as Greeley's Tribune and the monkey as Winfield Scott. Tell for name-calling: the monkey labels Scott by animal comparison in place of any argument about his record.

## Text on the object

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

```
[On the organ:]
BATTLE OF CHAPULTEPEC
TRIBUNE

[On the shop front at left:]
FRENCH HOTEL [partly legible]

[Signature at lower left:]
F. BELLEW

[Title:]
THE WHIG ORGAN.

[Sub-title:]
EXHIBITING A SPECIMEN OF THE FEATHERED TRIBE.
```

Read from a 480x640 derivative. The shop-sign wording is small and only partly legible; the LOC date (28 Aug. 1852) and the magazine name come from the LOC note, not from the printed page shown.

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