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A caricatured James K. Polk wears an apron and holds an egg labeled "Mexico" from which an eagle clutching a serpent in its beak [the national symbol] is emerging. Other eggs rest on the ground at Polk's feet: Canada, Cuba, Texas. The Texas egg is already cracking. One smaller figure, a man who has popped his arms, head, and legs out of his own eggshell marked "Ireland," is bending over the Canadian egg and staring at it. Polk is observing that one egg has awhile to wait, and one is already hatched, but "there goes."
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1840s
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Chase Family Papers
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AR343-1-11
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