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“The Little Giant as the Modern Gulliver…”
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This cartoon from The Comic Monthly depicts Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, nicknamed “the Little Giant,” as Gulliver attempting to escape with the White House, which is occupied by the Lilliputians of the James Buchanan administration. President Buchanan topples out of the White House upside down, the third figure from the top. Buchanan and Douglas had clashed over the issue of slavery in Kansas when the senator opposed the administration’s backing of the proposed state constitution, which would have legalized the institution. As a result of their dispute, the president opposed Douglas’s presidential candidacy. The small figure wearing a top hat and looking down in the left foreground is probably New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley. In the right foreground is the equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson. |
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