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Cartoon depicting Joshua Giddings head on an ass
 
Cartoon depicting Giddings' head on the body of an ass, carrying a pack-saddle labeled "abolition." The cartoon predicted that Giddings and other antislavery politicians would lead the Whig party to electoral disaster. Lithograph published by John Childs in 1852. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-91403.