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"An Old Story Newly Applied"
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U.S. Representative Fernando Wood was a leader of
the Peace Democrats (called "Copperheads" by their political
opponents), who wanted a cease-fire and negotiated settlement with the
Confederacy. In this cartoon he threatens to split the Democratic party in two
(like in 1860) if the likely Democratic presidential nominee, Union General
George B. McClellan, does not endorse the proposed peace plank at the upcoming
Democratic National Convention. With clasped hands, McClellan seems to be
begging Wood not to make trouble. The sign in the left-background makes it clear
that the cartoonist considers the Peace Democrats to be traitors (turncoats). |
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