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“Let Us Clasp Hands Over the Bloody Chasm”
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Throughout the summer and fall, Nast made
continuing use of a key slogan in Greeley's letter of May 20 accepting the
Liberal Republican nomination. Underscoring the platform plank calling for
amnesty of all former Confederates, Greeley concluded with a plea for the North
and South "to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has too long
divided them …" (Greeley had used a similar phrase as early as April 1865
while calling for sectional reconciliation.) In various "clasping
hands" cartoons, Nast would incorporate the Ku Klux Klan, John Wilkes Booth
over the grave of Lincoln, a "shoulder-hitter" (i.e., a strongman for
an urban political boss), and former Confederate soldiers. |
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