Mending the Family Kettle, wood engraving appearing in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 16 June 1866.
In this political cartoon, Columbia, the female national personification of the United States, holds in her arms a newborn representing the Fourteenth Amendment, a constitutional amendment that had just been sent to the states for ratification. Eager to see the reform passed, she implores President Andrew Johnson, holding a leaking kettle labelled "The Reconstructed South," to mend the pot.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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