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• Collection: Cartoon Prints, American
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• Title: Leaders of the Democratic Party : The rioter Seymour ... The butcher Forrest ... The pirate Semmes ... The hangman Hampton ...
• Creator(s): Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902.,
• Related Names:
     Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
• Date Created/Published: [n. p., 1868.
• Medium: 1 print : wood-engraving with letterpress on wove paper ; 89.7 x 54 cm (sheet)
• Summary: A searing, election-year indictment of four prominent figures in the Democratic party, three of them former Confederate officers. Former New York governor and Democratic presidential nominee Horatio Seymour is portrayed as a "rioter." Standing in a burning city, he waves his hat in the air while he steps on the back of a crawling figure. In the background a corpse hangs from a lamppost. Between 1862 and 1864 Seymour had opposed Lincoln's war policies, and he was branded as instigator of the 1863 New York draft riots. (See "The Meeting of the Friends, City Hall Park," no. 1863-12.) Below the portrait are inflammatory passages from his speeches. Tennessee general Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder of the Ku Klux Klan, and infamous for his role in the massacre of surrendered Union troops at Fort Pillow, is called "The Butcher Forrest." He waves a flag labeled "No Quarter" and fires a pistol. Extracts from reports of the Pillow massacre are given below his picture. Confederate admiral Raphael Semmes is portrayed as a pirate, wielding a knife in one hand and holding aloft a flaming torch in the other. Behind him flies a flag with a skull and crossbones. To the right a family cowers in fright. Semmes was the scourge of Union shipping during the Civil War. Under his command the "Alabama," a British-built ship, captured sixty-two merchant vessels, most of which were burned. An excerpt from Semmes's July 1868 speech at Mobile, Alabama, appears below this image. Confederate cavalry officer Wade Hampton appears as a hangman. He holds his plumed hat at his side and wears a uniform embossed with a skull and crossbones and a belt inscribed "C.S.A" (Confederate States of America). In the distance three Yankee soldiers hang from a gallows.
• Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-43958 (b&w film copy neg.)
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  
• Call Number: Broadside portfolio 236 no. 27 c-Rare Bk Coll Broadside portfolio 236 no. 27 Printed Ephemera copy. 61 x 96 cm.
• Repository: Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
• Notes:
  • Signed: Th. Nast.
  • Title appears as it is written on the item.
  • Cartoons of the leaders of the Democratic Party.
  • Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1868-7.
  • LAC nsk 2021-07-28 update (1 card)
• Subjects:
  • Forrest, Nathan Bedford,--1821-1877.
  • Hampton, Wade,--1818-1902.
  • Semmes, Raphael,--1809-1877.
  • Seymour, Horatio,--1810-1886.
  • Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
  • Draft (Military service)--1860-1870.
  • Presidential elections--United States--1860-1870.
• Format:
  • Political cartoons--1860-1870.
  • Wood engravings--1860-1870.
• Collections:
  • Cartoon Prints, American
  • Miscellaneous Items in High Demand
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
• Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-43958 (b&w film copy neg.)
• Call Number: Broadside portfolio 236 no. 27 c-Rare Bk Coll Broadside portfolio 236 no. 27 Printed Ephemera copy. 61 x 96 cm.
• Medium: 1 print : wood-engraving with letterpress on wove paper ; 89.7 x 54 cm (sheet)

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• Call Number: Broadside portfolio 236 no. 27 c-Rare Bk Coll Broadside portfolio 236 no. 27 Printed Ephemera copy. 61 x 96 cm.
• Medium: 1 print : wood-engraving with letterpress on wove paper ; 89.7 x 54 cm (sheet)

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