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Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase had long sought the presidency, first as a
potential Republican rival to President Abraham Lincoln in 1864, then as a
Democrat in 1868. A former abolitionist, Chase insisted that the Democratic
party endorse voting rights for black men-depicted as "universal suffrage
salt" (salt preserves and enhances). The unlikelihood of either the
Democratic party or Chase changing positions on the issue inspired Thomas Nast
to characterize the justice's candidacy with a pun on his name: "a
wild-goose chase." The elusive nature of the nomination to Chase is
reinforced by incorporating the folklore that one must place salt on the tail of
a bird-here, the Democratic goose-in order to catch it. The blackbird sitting in
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Warning
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