[Jackson, Andrew]

Broadside (27 x 20 3/4 in.; 685 x 527 mm), 3 woodcut vignettes and a woodcut coffin, text within black mourning borders, wide margins and deckle edges; some foxing and toning, minor staining at top margin, minor creases, a few minor tears and separations.

Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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A LARGE ANTI-JACKSON COFFIN BROADSIDE. Several versions of this broadside (see following lot) were issued during the 1828 election between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, suggesting evidence of a coordinated smear campaign against Jackson.  

The first vignette, referring to the execution of militia men during the Creek War, depicts six blindfolded men kneeling before a firing squad and a row of open coffins while a sword-wielding officer commands them to fire. the text that surrounds three sides of the vignette is subtitled "A brief Account of the Execution of the Six Militia Men." The second vignette similarly depicts a single man on the brink of execution, below the quote "O God! My poor mother" along with a caricatured Jackson standing behind the riflemen directing them to "Blow ten balls through the d____d rascal."  This refers to the death of John Woods. The third vignette, referring to a duel between Jackson and Charles Dickinson, shows the same caricature of Jackson saying "I'll have your heart's blood" and shooting an unarmed man with a pistol.

OCLC locates only the New-York Historical Society and Duke University copies of this broadside.