Cartoonist Thomas Nast, who himself had emigrated as a child from Landau, Bavaria (in 1880, part of a unified Germany), emphasizes the opposition to Grant's candidacy by a group of German-Americans. Their spokesman is Jacob Mueller, an ethnic German who had fled Tsarist Russia for the United States, where he became lieutenant-governor of Ohio (1872-1874). Like Mueller, many German immigrants had left oppressive governments in Europe to seek the democratic freedoms which America offered, an experience that heightened their sensitivity to any hint of the tyrannical consolidation of political power. Notice that Grant's mode of transportation to the nomination is a sedan, a conveyance for the royal and the rich which is borne on the shoulders of servants or slaves.