Popery, Free Love, and Women's Rights.

July 30, 2008 10:23 AM

John C. Frémont is a secret Catholic.
posted by EarBucket (16 comments total)

That was hilarious and awesome. Interesting that the Freemounter is an old-maid-type. I guess the implication being that free love is the only kind she can get? Kind of like the hairy lesbian stereotype of today.
posted by DU at 10:35 AM on July 30, 2008

This is a great little piece of history. Thanks, EarBucket.
posted by mr_roboto at 10:37 AM on July 30, 2008

I bet John McCain is a secret Buddhist, just waiting until he gets elected to turn Washington into Lhasa West.
posted by imperium at 10:37 AM on July 30, 2008

If he'd been elected, do you really think we wouldn't be up to our eyeballs in popery by now?

Laugh it up, ye gullible.
posted by codswallop at 10:40 AM on July 30, 2008

We've still only elected one Catholic as president in the subsequent 150 years.
posted by octothorpe at 10:42 AM on July 30, 2008

We're up to our eyeballs in popery already: 5 of the 9 SCOTUS members are Catholic, as well as who knows how many members of Congress. INSIDIOUS!
posted by DU at 10:43 AM on July 30, 2008

Painted as a liberal, anti-slavery, Papist loony who loved Negroes, perverts and immigrants,

And this was the GOP candidate. How times have changed.
posted by three blind mice at 10:44 AM on July 30, 2008 [2 favorites]

It's odd that the writeup specifically excludes discussion of, and only of, the black interlocuter, but maybe that was more than the author wanted to bite off for one go?
posted by cortex at 10:53 AM on July 30, 2008 [1 favorite]

A friend of mine just asked about the black guy too, so I found a larger version of the image.

He seems to be saying: "De Poppylation of Color cimes in first--arter dat you may do wot you pleases"
posted by DU at 10:56 AM on July 30, 2008 [1 favorite]

Oh, the cimes is comes. That dot is from the y above. All the other misspellings are there for an obvious reason. I wonder why he's dressed like that. Oh, maybe he's "uppity".
posted by DU at 10:58 AM on July 30, 2008

Ah so. Thanks, DU.
posted by cortex at 11:14 AM on July 30, 2008

I wonder if "Poppylation" is a pun with regards to drug seeking behavior. Granted, the whole poppy/opium issue was traditionally related to Chinese immigrant labor on the railroads, but perhaps, by using the word "Color" he meant not just black people (as the picture implies) but all non-white individuals.

Or maybe it's a racists slur against "ebonics" of some sort. Though, with the capitalization, I'm guessing it's implying Chinese immigrants as well.
posted by symbioid at 11:20 AM on July 30, 2008

Popery Potpourri!
pivate poperty
posted by grobstein at 11:30 AM on July 30, 2008

Interesting that the Freemounter is an old-maid-type.

I think it's because the cartoonist figured that portraying advocates of sexual promiscuity as hot, nubile babes wouldn't exactly lead the reader to oppose their nefarious agenda.
posted by EarBucket at 11:44 AM on July 30, 2008 [2 favorites]

I.e. free love is a bunch of sour grapesraisins.
posted by DU at 12:05 PM on July 30, 2008

Ah, yes The Great Pathfinder. I guess if he'd been alive in the early part of this century and running for president then it wouldn't have been his supposed Catholicism that would be a problem but more his fruity French-looking name.
posted by ob at 4:48 PM on July 30, 2008