Iowa
Old Press
Lyons Mirror
Lyons, Clinton County, Iowa
July 16, 1856
“Ten Cent Jimmy”
It is astonishing what low acts men will stoop to in order to
accomplish their ends. From the Maquoketa Excelsior we
learn that the Sentinel men (Dem.) recently paid money, placed in
their hands for electioneering purposes, to get up a burning of
“Ten Cent Jimmy” in effigy, in order to manufacture
political sympathy for the nominee of the pro-slavery party. The
affair was got up secretly, so as to make believe Republicans had
done it.
[transcribers note: “Ten Cent Jimmy” was President James Buchanan’s nickname. -transcribed by K.W., August 2009]