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The great November contest. Patriotism vs bummerism.
[graphic].
New York :
Bromley & Co.,
1868.
1 print :
lithograph ;
sheet 48 x 61 cm (18.75 x 24 in.)
Title from item.
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to an Act of Congress in the year 1868 by Bromley & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the southern District of New York.
Weitenkampf,
p.157
Reilly,
1868-15
Racist cartoon depicting the 1868 Presidential Election as a carriage race between the "patriotic" Democrats and the "bum" Republicans who support Reconstruction. Depicts the elegant Democratic carriage with the banner "This is a White Man's Government" pulled by the horses with the heads of Horatio Seymour and Francis P. Blair racing passed the stalled Republican wagon steered by the asses with the heads of nominees Ulysses Grant and Schuyler Colfax. In the Democrats' carriage are four allegorical figures: Liberty, depicted as a white woman holding the Constitution and a banner which reads "Our Glorious Union Distinct, like the Billows, One, Like the Sea' This is a White Man's Government!"; Navigation, depicted as a white woman holding a miniature ship; Agriculture, depicted as a white woman holding sheaves of wheat and a scythe; and Labor, represented by a bearded white man with a hammer and flywheel. The Republican wagon passengers include radical Thaddeus Stevens, the grim reaper, and an African American man and woman couple, portrayed in racist caricature and speaking in the vernacular. Massachusetts Republican representative Benjamin F. Butler tries to push the stalled wagon passed the bones of those who paid "The Price of Nigger Freedom" and the rocks of "Ruined Commerce," "Debt," and "Negro Supremacy."
In the background, a cheering crowd brandishing American flags near the U.S. Capitol await the winning Seymour and Blair while on the building's other side a group of African American men dance. In the left foreground, Henry Ward Beecher and Horace Greeley play a shellgame looking for Grant and an African American man and woman, attired in torn and worn clothes, discuss another man returning to his former enslaver. In the right foreground, an African American man sits behind a table labeled, "Pompey Smash, Salt River Line Ticket Agent" and sells tickets to "Salt River" (i.e., political disaster) to a white man with a bag labeled, "J.G.B. Boston Carpet Bagger." Behind them, two African American men and a drunken white man holding a bottle talk about the Republican wagon.
Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush.
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.
Beecher, Henry Ward,
1813-1887
Caricatures and cartoons.
Blair, Francis Preston,
1791-1876
Caricatures and cartoons.
Colfax, Schuyler,
1823-1885
Caricatures and cartoons.
Grant, Ulysses S.
(Ulysses Simpson),
1822-1885
Caricatures and cartoons.
Greeley, Horace,
1811-1872
Caricatures and cartoons.
Seymour, Horatio,
1810-1886
Caricatures and cartoons.
Democratic Party (U.S.)
5194
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
8213
African American men
Caricatures and cartoons.
African American women
Caricatures and cartoons.
African Americans
Caricatures and cartoons.
Allegories.
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67371
Animals
Symbolic aspects.
Horses
United States.
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Liberty.
lctgm
75232
Presidents
United States
Election
1868.
Race relations
United States.
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Racing
United States.
lctgm
Racism in popular culture.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
79027
Women
United States.
lctgm
82700
Lithographs
1860-1870.
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Political cartoons
1860-1870.
gmgpc
Women.
82663
SP3
African American History
Printer
Bromley & Co.,
publisher.
Imprint
N.Y. New York.
1868.
Library Company of Philadelphia
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N.Y. New York.
1868.
Imprint
Bromley & Co.,
publisher.