Canvas Print: Congressional Scales. A True Balance, 1850
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  • Title: Congressional Scales. A True Balance, 1850
  • Description: A satire on President Zachary Taylor's attempts to balance Southern and Northern interests on the question of slavery in 1850. Taylor stands atop a pair of scales, with a weight in each hand; the weight on the left reads "Wilmot Proviso" and the one on the right "Southern Rights." Below, the scales are evenly balanced, with several members of Congress, including Henry Clay in the tray on the left, and others, among them Lewis Cass and John Calhoun, on the right. Taylor says, "Who said I would not make a "NO PARTY" President? I defy you to show any party action here." One legislator on the left sings, "How much do you weigh? Eight dollars a day. Whack fol de rol!" Another states, "My patience is as inexhaustible as the public treasury." A congressman on the right says, "We can wait as long as they can." On the ground, at right, John Bull observes, "That's like what we calls in old Hingland, a glass of 'alf and 'alf."
  • Creator: N. Currier (Firm),
  • Subjects: Calhoun, John C, Cass, Lewis, Clay, Henry, Compromise of 1850, Congress (U.S.), Compromise of 1850 and, John Bull, Taylor, Zachary, presidency, Wilmot Proviso
  • Collection: Cartoon Prints, American. This assemblage of prints made in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encompasses several forms of political art.
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