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Description	"A humorous commentary on Barnburner Democrat Martin Van Buren's opposition to regular Democratic party nominee Lewis Cass. Van Buren and his son John were active in the Free Soil effort to prevent the extension of slavery into new American territories. In this he opposed the conservative Cass, who advocated deferring to popular sovereignty on the question. In "Smoking Him Out," Van Buren and his son (wearing smock, far right) feed an already raging fire in a dilapidated barn. (radical New York Democrats supporting Van Buren were referred to as "Barnburners" because in their zeal for social reforms and anticurrency fiscal policy they were likened to farmers burning their barns to drive out the rats)."
Source	Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, American Cartoon Prints Collection, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40411
Date	1848
Author	Nathaniel Currier
Permission	PD (published in U.S. prior to 1923)

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