Southern Ideas of Liberty and New Method of Assorting the Mail political cartoons, 1835
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1835Image Description:
"Southern ideas of liberty" shown above "New Method of Assorting the Mail" protrays the violent suppression of abolitionists in the South. The man (a judge) on the right with donkey ears is shown sitting on large amounts of cotton, sugar and tabacco while pointing in the direction of the gallows for the next prisoner's death to make a lesson out of them."New method of assorting the mail" is a portrayal of the nocturnal raid on the Charleston post office by a mob of citizens and the burning of abolitionist mail found there in July 1835.
Lithograph, likely printed originally in Boston.