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Secretary of War Joel Poinsett, left, in an 1840 cartoon
satirizing his policies in Florida. The man kneeling with the map of Florida is
Washington newspaper editor Francis Preston Blair, an old crony of Andrew
Jackson and frequent apologist for the Jackson and Van Buren administrations. Original lithograph attributed to Henry R.
Robinson. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-91404. |
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