. Print shows President Jackson, sword in hand, during a nightmare, fighting a hydra with many fierce heads labeled ' Bank', 'Deposits', 'Bribery', 'Pensions', '[...] of the People', and 'Corruption of the [...]'; he cries out 'Stamp the horrid Monster!!! Crush it!!! Nick Biddle!!! Hell & the Devil!!! Bribery & Corruption!!! Assasination [sic]!! Fire!! Murder. Murder!! Where are you Major?' He is being restrained by 'Major' Jack Downing, who implores him to 'Cum along to Bed agin, Jineral, I tell you Biddle aint here, nor the devil nother as I no on.' A bed and a chair with a candle on it
. Print shows President Jackson, sword in hand, during a nightmare, fighting a hydra with many fierce heads labeled ' Bank', 'Deposits', 'Bribery', 'Pensions', '[...] of the People', and 'Corruption of the [...]'; he cries out 'Stamp the horrid Monster!!! Crush it!!! Nick Biddle!!! Hell & the Devil!!! Bribery & Corruption!!! Assasination [sic]!! Fire!! Murder. Murder!! Where are you Major?' He is being restrained by 'Major' Jack Downing, who implores him to 'Cum along to Bed agin, Jineral, I tell you Biddle aint here, nor the devil nother as I no on.' A bed and a chair with a candle on it appear in the background on the upper left. . Political Quixotism shewing the consequences of sleeping in patent magic spectacles The diplomatic Hercules, attacking the poitical hydra / / from a very big picter in the Jinerals Bed-Room, draw'd off from Nater by Zek Downing, Historical Painter to Uncle Jack & Jineral [1833?]. Ezra Bisbee, publisher
Size: 2578px × 1939px
Photo credit: © The Picture Art Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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