The scandal of Thomas Jefferson’s long relationship with slave Sally Hemings is depicted here in this political cartoon, which was meant not just to reveal the salacious affair but reinforce Jefferson’s Franco-philia (love of France), which his critics felt he unfairly favored. James Akin. “A Philosophic Cock,” Newburyport, Massachusetts, c. 1804. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts. http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Inventories/Peirce/2.jpg.