EARLIEST AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN CARTOON IN A NEWSPAPER: ANDREW JACKSON'S CAMPAIGN.


United States Telegraph Extra, No. 3. Washington: September 17, 1832. 16 pp (paginated 33-48). 8vo (233 x 140 mm). Disbound from larger volume. Pages toned with some spotting.ANDREW JACKSON'S RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN. Featuring a blistering satire of Martin van Buren as Andrew Jackson's whipping boy, titled "Granny Jackson's Lullaby to Little Martin," and sung to the tune of "Rock-a-bye Baby." The Telegraph's editor, Duff Green, had supported Jackson for President in 1828, but when Jackson and his Vice-President John C. Calhoun had a falling out, Green supported the latter. In this front-page piece, which features a woodcut of "Granny Jackson" nursing "Little Martin," he savages Jackson for replacing Calhoun on the ticket with Van Buren.