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Grant and the Republicans |
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“A Leaf from History For Our Foreign-Born Citizens" |
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Cartoonist: Matt Morgan |
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Source: Leslie's Illustrated |
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Date:
September 28, 1872, p. 33
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Click to see a large version of this cartoon |
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Complete HarpWeek Explanation:
In the turbulent political circumstances of the
mid-1850s, the nativist (see "Nativism" in Issues) American party sometimes served as a way station between the
crumbling Whig party and the emerging Republican party for those who considered
slavery and Catholicism to be evils that threatened the nation. Such was the
case for Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts, the Republican vice-presidential
nominee in 1872. In this cartoon, his previous membership in the American party
has come back to haunt him nearly 20 years later. The cartoonist's intention is
to foster ill will for Wilson among the numerous Irish-American and
German-American ("Dutchmen") voters. Furthermore, the hooded costumes
of the Know-Nothings evoke images of the Ku Klux Klan as well as goad
traditional American hostility toward secret societies, like the Masons. |
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