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"Wilkes Booth the Second"
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This front-page Thomas Nast illustration appeared just a few days before the
presidential election. A corresponding news story, "The Policy of
Assassination," reported that Democratic vice-presidential nominee Frank
Blair and certain Democratic newspapers were predicting that, if elected,
Republican presidential nominee General Ulysses S. Grant would establish a
military dictatorship. Some observers claimed that Blair sanctioned Grant's
assassination during the Democratic candidate's speech in St. Louis. The caption
below the cartoon quotes the New York Democrat as also apparently threatening
Grant's assassination if Democrats consider his victory to be the result of vote
fraud. |
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