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...and exclusive compilations, along with relevant text, provided a complete visual record of Nast’s quarter-century at Harper’s Weekly. With them and the contextual HarpWeek database for a backbone, reporting and...
The “Magnetic” Blaine; or, a Very Heavy “Load”-stone for the Republican Party to Carry
...the House Judiciary Committee about the letters and Blaine’s commission of $162,500 in free bonds. Nast also disdained Blaine’s support for Chinese exclusion. During 1879 and into 1880, Nast drew...
Governor Seymour’s Speech to the New York Rioters
...and Congress that the Union Army needed more men than volunteers could supply. Military reverses, sickness, desertions, and low morale were significant problems. Congress responded by passing the Enrollment Act,...
“Another Stocking to Fill”
...William Curtis. Once again, it looked as if his political enemy James Blaine would be the probable Republican nominee. That, combined with Curtis’s censorship, comprised his current “vale of tears.”...
Senator Tweed in a New Role
...of Special Audit” — comprised of Mayor Oakey Hall, and Tweed (as president of the newly-created Public Works Commission) — to pay pre-dated as well as current claims, 90% of...
Senator Tweed in a New Role
...of Special Audit” — comprised of Mayor Oakey Hall, and Tweed (as president of the newly-created Public Works Commission) — to pay pre-dated as well as current claims, 90% of...
A Group of Vultures Waiting for the Storm to “Blow Over”—”Let Us Prey”
...Citizens Association held a meeting of influential citizens from both parties on September 4, and formed a Committee of Seventy to lead the charge against the Ring. Committee President William...
“Too Thin!”
...by double-crossing the Boss and issuing an injunction prohibiting Comptroller “Slippery Dick” Connolly from any further issuance of bonds or contracts. On Saturday, September 9, a sub-committee of the Seventy,...
“Stop Thief!”
Harper’s Weekly – October 7, 1871 Back on August 27, the Times had editorialized “Why (Comptroller Richard “Slippery Dick”) Connolly was kept in office and how it was done?” The...
A Tammany Rat
...the most eminent railroad lawyer in the country prior to the Civil War, he became wealthy and owned a comfortable home in New York City’s elegant Gramercy Park neighborhood. Personally,...