How much do you agree with this anti-Republican Party comic from 1856?

[First1There]

Larger version to read.

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/EXNK98/usa-presidential-election-of-1856-republican-party-candidate-john-EXNK98.jpg

[First1There]

I agree with 4 of 6. Not the Prohibitionist one, or the bring the Pope to rule the US one.

[Schiff for Senate]

2/6 (the suffrage and abolitionist points). The fifth comment fascinates me, because my historical understanding was that Democrats even in the 1800s were more accepting of immigrants - that is, Irish Catholic immigrants. One of my few gripes with the antebellum GOP is their close association with nativists and xenophobes, and that being abolitionist and nativist was somehow a package deal much of the time.

[First1There]

2/6 (the suffrage and abolitionist points). The fifth comment fascinates me, because my historical understanding was that Democrats even in the 1800s were more accepting of immigrants - that is, Irish Catholic immigrants. One of my few gripes with the antebellum GOP is their close association with nativists and xenophobes, and that being abolitionist and nativist was somehow a package deal much of the time.

Considering this is the 1856 election, I think this would have been a Know-Nothing Party cartoon.

[Schiff for Senate]

2/6 (the suffrage and abolitionist points). The fifth comment fascinates me, because my historical understanding was that Democrats even in the 1800s were more accepting of immigrants - that is, Irish Catholic immigrants. One of my few gripes with the antebellum GOP is their close association with nativists and xenophobes, and that being abolitionist and nativist was somehow a package deal much of the time.

Considering this is the 1856 election, I think this would have been a Know-Nothing Party cartoon.

Even so, the nativist line of attack would have worked far more effectively against the Democrats than the Republicans, given that Democrats even then were much more welcoming to (Irish Catholic) immigrants.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

3 out of six.

[Never Made it to Graceland]

"Freemounters"

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

2/6 (the suffrage and abolitionist points). The fifth comment fascinates me, because my historical understanding was that Democrats even in the 1800s were more accepting of immigrants - that is, Irish Catholic immigrants. One of my few gripes with the antebellum GOP is their close association with nativists and xenophobes, and that being abolitionist and nativist was somehow a package deal much of the time.

Considering this is the 1856 election, I think this would have been a Know-Nothing Party cartoon.

Even so, the nativist line of attack would have worked far more effectively against the Democrats than the Republicans, given that Democrats even then were much more welcoming to (Irish Catholic) immigrants.

Fremont, I believe, had some loose connection to Catholicism but was not himself Catholic. He and his wife were married by a Catholic priest, per Wikipedia.

[wnwnwn]

With equality of property, do they refer to socialism/communism or what?

[Del Tachi]

Not sure what you mean by "agree" but this cartoon is 10/10 would recommend again.  Hilarious.  FF!

[First1There]

With equality of property, do they refer to socialism/communism or what?

Fremont says Fourierism, and Fourier was a utopian socialist, So, yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourierism

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

and people complain about walls of text in modern leftist memes

[Sumner 1868]

It reminds me I need to end the hiatus of my Fremont Presidency timeline at some point.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

It reminds me I need to end the hiatus of my Fremont Presidency timeline at some point.

Cool work!

[Vice President Christian Man]

3 out of six.

Same