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[Whiggery and the temple of liberty].
A satire on the American Whig party of the mid-nineteenth century. At left is a large columnated entryway labeled "Whiggery" and displaying a flag reading "Take care of the rich & the poor will take care of themselves." Men wait in line to file through the entryway with banners for different political issues, including "State rights," "Free trade," "Nullification," "Consolidation," and "Tariff." At center, a well-dressed man asks another man carrying a hoe, "Shall I accommodate you with a loan?" The man with the hoe replies, "I am too poor to borrow & don't do business on borrowed capital." In right background a group of what look to be farmers meet in a building labeled "Temple of Liberty." In the right foreground, three men hold another man's nose to a grindstone.; Likely engraved by David Claypoole Johnston.
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