The great match at Baltimore, between the "Illinois Bantam" and the "Old Cock" of the White House LCCN2003674575, Louis Maurer, 1860

Title: the great match at baltimore, between the "illinois bantam" and the "old cock" of the white house abstract: dissension within the democratic party in 1860 and stephen a. Douglas's capture of the party's presidential nomination at the party's may convention are satirized as a cockfight. Douglas stands, the victorious cock, atop his badly beaten rival, incumbent president james c. Buchanan. Feathers still fill the air from the fray. Douglas crows:"cock a doodle doo!! / i've got the best of you. / and i can beat the lincoln cock; / and old kentucky too!" buchanan moans, "oh dear! oh dear! this is my last kick, i'm a used up old rooster. " on the right an unidentified man sets a new cock into the ring, kentucky senator john c. Breckinridge. The man warns douglas, "don't crow too loud my fine fellow, here's a kentucky chicken that will worry you a little. " the breckinridge cock says anxiously, "i suppose now i'm in the pit that i must tackle the bantam, but i don't much like the job. " a simian irishman wearing a stovepipe hat watches from ringside left, probably representing the old-line tammany democrats of new york. He reflects, "he [buchanan] wos a werry game old bird, but that ere bantam, was a leetle too much for him!" physical description: 1 print on wove paper: lithograph; image 28 x 36 cm. Notes: published in: american political prints, 1766-1876 / bernard f. Reilly. Boston: g. K. Hall, 1991, entry 1860-21.;probably drawn by louis maurer.;title from item. Date: 1860.