A Bad Egg for a Southern StomachThe cartoon was published about the Lecompton Constitution* in The Press (The Philadelphia Press).
It illustrates J. G. Davis forced to swallow S. A. Douglas emerging from egg written "squatter sovereingty"*. He's trying to kill him with a foil written "southern rights".
On the left, J. W. Forney says: "Come Davis, take your physic like a man, it will settle your stomach and cure your distemper, hold his hands down Hickman".
Davis says: "It's a bad egg* !! I can't swallow it !! Take it away !!".
The anti-Lecompton patent is ready to use, on the right beside J. Hickman.
It illustrates J. G. Davis forced to swallow S. A. Douglas emerging from egg written "squatter sovereingty"*. He's trying to kill him with a foil written "southern rights".
On the left, J. W. Forney says: "Come Davis, take your physic like a man, it will settle your stomach and cure your distemper, hold his hands down Hickman".
Davis says: "It's a bad egg* !! I can't swallow it !! Take it away !!".
The anti-Lecompton patent is ready to use, on the right beside J. Hickman.
* The Lecompton Constitution, a pro-slavery constitution, was proposed for the state of Kansas, enshrining slavery and protecting the rights of slaveholders.
On 4 January 1858, Kansas voters (referendum) overwhelmingly rejected the Lecompton proposal. In Washington, the Lecompton constitution was defeated by the federal House of Representatives in 1858: S. A. Douglas broke with the pro-slavery Democratic party leadership, paving the way for a Republican victory in the Abraham Lincoln's election as president in 1860.
Kansas was admitted to the Union as a free state in 1861.
On 4 January 1858, Kansas voters (referendum) overwhelmingly rejected the Lecompton proposal. In Washington, the Lecompton constitution was defeated by the federal House of Representatives in 1858: S. A. Douglas broke with the pro-slavery Democratic party leadership, paving the way for a Republican victory in the Abraham Lincoln's election as president in 1860.
Kansas was admitted to the Union as a free state in 1861.
* Squatter sovereignty (American History, before the Civil War): a doctrine, held chiefly by the opponents of the abolitionists, that the people living in a territory should be free of federal interference in determining domestic policy, esp. with respect to slavery.
* bad egg (slang of the American Civil War): bad person, good for nothing
* bad egg (slang of the American Civil War): bad person, good for nothing
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