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English: Political cartoon satirizing the inauguration of Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederate States of America. From Harper's Weekly, 8 March 1862.
Davis is caricatured as a crowned skeletal personification of death, holding a pirate flag in one hand and a torch labeled "DESOLATION" in the other, with a slave seated between his feet. He is seated on a throne of cotton bales atop a huge whiskey barrel. Around him drunken men toast him, with signs reading "Hurrah for Jeff Davis", "Hurrah for Our New President". Beside is a gaunt mother with holding a baby, both looking like they suffering from starvation. In the background are ship masts falling to ruin, houses burning, and a great gallows. Original Caption: THE INAUGURATION AT RICHMOND "Fellow Citizens! On this the Birthday of the Man most identified with the establishment of American Independence, and beneath the Monument erected, &c. &c. &c., we have assembled to usher into existence the permanent Government of the Confederate States." -- (JEFF DAVIS'S Inaugural Address at Richmond) |
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| Source | Harper's Weekly, 15 March 1862 (image of newspaper found at http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1862/march/rebel-cartoon.htmm, source of original uploaded jpg unknown) |
| Author | Uncredited cartoonist for Harper's Weekly. |
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