| Contributor |
American News Company. |
|
American News Company, publisher. |
| Title |
Fate of the radical party. [graphic] / JAL; Am. News Co. Agent N.Y. |
| Publisher |
New York : American News Company |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1868 |
| Date |
[1868] |
| Physical Description |
1 print : lithograph ; sheet 31 x 49 cm (12.25 x 19 in.) |
| Description |
Cartoon predicting that the radical members of the Republican Party will be responsible for the party's defeat in the 1868
presidential election. Depicts a steaming locomotive in the shape of a bottle labeled "A Radical Cure - Lowell Bitters" in
which Massachusetts representative Benjamin F. Butler is encased. The train heads toward the "Dutch Gap" being dug by incumbent
Andrew Johnson holding a shovel of "Veto" dirt (reference to Johnson's numerous vetoes of radical reconstruction policies).
Riding on and in the train are: Presidential nominee Ulysses S. Grant who smokes from the pipe-shaped train's smoke stack
which is adorned with the head of an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature; Thaddeus Stevens as the engineer;
and Vice-Presidential nominee Schuyler Colfax. On the tracks in the background, an African American man, portrayed in racist
caricature, sits on a stool and writes atop the pedestal "Fame," and the "Constitutional Line" train proceeds to the White
House "Depot."
|
| Is referenced by |
Weitenkampf, p. 157 |
| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Date of publication supplied by Weitenkampf. |
|
Purchase 1979. |
|
RVCDC |
|
Description revised 2021. |
|
Access points revised 2021. |
|
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the
Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom
Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
|
| Subject |
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
|
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1868. |
|
Racism in popular culture. |
|
Railroad trains -- United States. |
|
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |
| Genre |
Lithographs -- 1860-1870. |
|
Political cartoons -- 1860-1870. |
| Printer |
American News Company, publisher. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political Cartoons - 1868-14w [P.8503] |
| Accession number |
P.8503 |
