On this cartoon, we can see Henry Clay sewing Andrew Jackson’s mouth. When the cartoon was published in 1834, Henry Clay won the campaign of censuring President Andrew Jackson for abusing his powers. President Jackson was against the creation of a Second Bank of United Sates, after vetoing the bill for rechartering the second bank of United States he attempted to move the federal deposits away from the second bank. However, his Secretary of Treasury, William Duane, opposed this. As a result, Jackson supplanted him with Roger B. Taney and he moved the funds to a different bank. The response to this was Clay’s proposal to censure Jackson. On March 28, 1834, the senate pass Clay’s proposal. Under the chair, there is a quote by Shakespeare that
