Our Best Harbor Defences -- Cotton Bales
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A single-page political cartoon from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, January 1862, during the American Civil War. It shows Jonathan (the Northern personification) standing on a stack of cotton bales beside a notice of 3,650 bales of cotton arriving from Beaufort aboard the Vanderbilt, inviting John Bull to collect them as per invoice. The caption presents the captured cotton as a harbor defence, alluding to Britain's dependence on Southern cotton and the Union capture of Beaufort, South Carolina.
- Type
- Other
- Date
- January 25, 1862
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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