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With this cartoon, artist Thomas Nast sets the
stage for the scheduled coalition of the Liberal Republican and Democratic
parties at the latter's convention in Baltimore on July 9-10. In another retreat
into the convenient characters of Shakespeare, Greeley is Antonio, the Merchant
of Venice, presented by his crafty friend and supporter, Senator Reuben Fenton
(as Bassanio), to August Belmont, chairman of the Democratic National Committee,
represented as Shylock, the long-suffering yet apparently accommodating
money-lender. |
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Warning
1860
