The great American buck hunt of 1856

Presidential candidates John C. Frémont and Millard Fillmore try unsuccessfully to stop James "Buck" Buchanan (with the body of a buck) as he bounds into the White House, which is visible in the right distant background. Frémont's gun explodes (left), as he struggles to free himself from a pool of "Black Mud." On the far left his two abolitionist supporters Henry Ward Beecher and Horace Greeley are also mired in an "Abolition Bog." On "Union Rock" (right), which is square in the path toward the White House, stands Fillmore aiming his shotgun confidently at Buchanan