THE SAME OLD COON HENRY CLAY by [Clay, Henry] - 1844

[np, 1844. Printed and decorated silk broadside, 18-1/2" x 13-1/2." Six red horizontal, flag-like stripes. Old tape bleedthrough at extremities from prior matting, light wear. Good+.

The flag depicts a raccoon thumbing his nose at the moon. The illustration became a common Whig Party symbol in 1840. The coon is perched on a fence while the man-in-the-moon smiles overhead. A campaign ditty below reads: "The moon was shining silver bright, / The stars with glory crowned the night / High on a rail that 'same old coon' / Was singing to himself this tune./ Clare de kitchen. / Hurrah! hurrah! / For Harry Clay." Wikipedia describes "Clare de kitchen" as an 1832 American song from the blackface minstrel tradition, with connections to Kentucky, Clay's home State.
We have not located another copy of this silk broadside. A similar caption and illustration appear in Threads of History 185, as a flag bandanna for the 1844 Whig "Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen" presidential ticket.
Not in Threads of History, Reilly, Weitenkampf, or on the online sites of OCLC, Huntington, AAS, U KY, Filson as of October 2022.