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Title The precarious situation. [graphic].
Publisher [United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher US. 1868
Date [1868]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 31 x 36 cm (12 x 14.25 in.)
Description Cartoon addressing the tenuous position of Republican presidential nominee General Ulysses S. Grant as the candidate of a party whose radicals support African American civil rights and Reconstruction under military rule. Depicts Grant holding up a knife inscribed "military despotism" as he straddles the "radical platform" rope that is stretched across the "Salt River" (i.e., political disaster). One end of the rope is tied to a rifle labeled "military reconstruction." The other end is held by "Negro supremacy" depicted as an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature, barefooted, and attired in torn and worn clothes, who sits upon the tombstone of "Southern Confederacy." He asks in the vernacular, "Whar you be Massa Grant if I lef' go, yah! yah!!" Grant replies, "I'll fight it out if it takes all summer."
Is referenced by Weitenkampf, p. 158
Notes Title from item.
Date of publication supplied by Weitenkampf.
Accessioned 1979.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Subject Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1868.
Racism in popular culture.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Rifles -- United States.
Tombs & sepulchral monuments -- United States.
Genre Political cartoons -- 1860-1870.
Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political Cartoons - 1868-19bW [P.2275.3b]
Accession number P.2275.3b