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The precarious situation. [graphic].
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Title
The precarious situation. [graphic].
Publisher
[United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher
UNITED STATES. 1868
Date
[1868]
Physical Description
1 print : lithograph ; sheet 32 x 41 cm (12.5 x 16.25 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.
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
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Horses -- United States.
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1868.
Racism in popular culture.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Rifles -- United States.
Tombs & sepulchral monuments -- United States.
Genre
Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Political cartoons -- 1860-1870.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political Cartoons - 1868-19aW [P.2275.3a]
Accession number
P.2275.3a
In Collections
Political Cartoons Collection
African American History Political Cartoons
Race and Visual Culture Digital Collection, 1866-1900
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