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Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase supported black manhood suffrage, yet in 1868
sought the presidential nomination of the Democratic party, whose members
largely opposed it. Democratic spokesmen often warned that Republican support of
civil rights for black Americans would lead inevitably to miscegenation
(interracial marriage). Cartoonist Thomas Nast saw the irony of the Chase
candidacy and turned the tables on the Democrats. In this cartoon Nast asks the
same question about the Democratic party that the Democrats used to frighten
their constituencies away from the Republican party: "Would you marry your
daughter to a Nigger?" In the center of the cartoon, Chase presides as the
officiating minister at the wedding of a black man and an Irish-American woman,
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