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This Frank Bellew cartoon pronounces the death of the Democratic party. The
undertaker is August Belmont, the national chairman of the Democratic party. The
woman represents Irish-Catholic immigrants, a major voting bloc for the party.
Her dark-skinned face may be flushed or it may convey the common notion in
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George McClellan, George Pendleton, Horatio Seymour, and Andrew Jackson. The bespectacled miniature head in front is probably Congressman James Brooks. |
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