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A serviceable garment--or reverie of a bachelor

Content Provider	Library of Congress - Photographs
Description	Democratic presidential candidate James Buchanan is depicted as a poor bachelor in his squalid quarters. Though indeed a confirmed bachelor, Buchanan in reality was hardly needy. After serving as American minister to Great Britain, he was nominated on June 2 at his party's Cincinnati convention. Here he sits in a small, dimly lit chamber, on a rickety chair near a small cot. A cracked mirror hangs on the wall in the background, and his foot rests upon a stool with a spool and scissors. A needle and thread in his hand, Buchanan examines a ragged coat on which he has evidently just sewn a patch marked "Cuba." This is probably a reference to his authorship of the Ostend Manifesto of 1854, which proposed that the United States annex or seize Cuba. (On this see also "The "Ostend Doctrine,"" no. 1854-6.) Buchanan says, "My Old coat was a very fashionable Federal coat when it was new, but by patching and turning I have made it quite a Democratic Garment. That Cuba patch to be sure is rather unsightly but it suits Southern fashions at this season, and then. (If I am elected,) let me see, $25,000 pr. annum, and no rent to pay, and no Women and Babies about, I guess I can afford a new outfit." Buchanan's words here suggest that the desire to extend American slave territory motivated his Ostend designs on Cuba. His mention of converting a "Federal coat" to a Democratic one refers to his 1828 conversion from Federal party man to Jacksonian Democrat.
File Format	JPG / JPEG
Language	English
Part of Series	Popular Graphic Arts Cartoon Prints, American
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Access Restriction	Open
Subject Domain (in LCSH)	Cuba.
Subject Domain (in LCSH)	Ostend Manifesto.
Subject Domain (in LCSH)	Buchanan, James, as presidential candidate.
Content Type	Image
Resource Type	Photograph

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