Subject: Political cartoon depicting James Buchanan, probably Stephen A. Douglas, and other pro-slavery supporters boiling and burning anti-slavery documents in a cauldron which reads "Double double, Free state trouble. Till Fremont men are straw & stubble." Buchanan, standing at left, holds a copy of the Ostend Manifesto, and the man to his left, possibly Douglas, holds a whip and slave chains and is seated. Other men hold pro slavery documents, and one holds Preston Brooks' cane used in the beating of Charles Sumner. At the foreground, a man kneels and blows on the fire, with a pistol labled "Laws of Kansas" in his back pocket.