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“The New Organ”

Topic:
Democratic National Convention
Source:
Harper's Weekly
Cartoonist:
Thomas Nast
Date:
June 8, 1872, p. 448
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This provocative Nast cartoon presents Horace Greeley as dupe of the Liberal Republicans, especially of his former assistant, Whitelaw Reid. A sub-head underneath the caption quotes a February 1871 issue of the New York Tribune, which identifies former Confederates as the dominant force in the national Democratic party. Nast's use of Greeley's own words against him was a powerful shot across the bow of the whole anti-Grant movement, intended to alienate regular Democrats who were preparing to adopt Greeley as their candidate during their national convention at Baltimore on July 9-10. It was also meant to underscore allegations that intransigent Southern Democrats were in control of the Liberal Republican coalition.
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