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The Grand Peace Overture to “Our Wayward Sisters”
...their editorial drums. Greeley wrote Lincoln, beseeching the President to authorize him to enter peace negotiations at Niagara Falls. Lincoln complied, provided that the Confederates committed up front to restoration...
Our Common Schools As They Are and As They May Be
Harper’s Weekly – February 26, 1870 After the Tweed Ring obtained more power in state as well as city government, Church schools received a large proportion of common school funding....
Compromise with the South — Dedicated to the Chicago Convention
...on August 24 (post-dated September 3), as the Convention was assembling. Compromise with the South — Dedicated to the Chicago Convention captured the very crux of the existential emotional and...
Under the Thumb
...it more contemptuously combative. He put the words in Tweed’s mouth, employed it as his serial punchline through to victory, and the Times echoed it. In conjunction with Nast’s accompanying...
The Emancipation of the Negroes, January, 1863 The Past and the Future
...career as editor. Harper’s Weekly printed the complete text of the Proclamation. The Emancipation of the Negroes finally emerged as a dramatic allegory in the next issue. The dominant center...
John Morgan’s Highwaymen Sacking a Peaceful Village in the West
...in Kentucky — with commands of 800 to 1,000 men each — conducted devastating guerilla raids against troops under the control of Union General Don Carlos Buell. They not only...
The Emancipation of the Negroes, January, 1863 the Past and the Future
...career as editor. Harper’s Weekly printed the complete text of the Proclamation. The Emancipation of the Negroes finally emerged as a dramatic allegory in the next issue. The dominant center...
Cipher Mumm(er)y
...committee chaired by Clarkson Potter (NY) to try to prove that “Rutherfraud” Hayes was an illegitimate President. Although the committee was stacked with Hayes’s political enemies, its investigation foundered after...
“It’s Love that Makes the World Turn Round”
...legal announcements, and was paid for at two to five times normal rates. Comptroller Richard (Slippery Dick) Connolly was known to withhold payment of selected advertising claims until newspapers complied...
“We Accept the Situation”
...second one, clarifying registration and election procedures. Nast celebrated with a smaller cartoon in which both a caricatured happy newly-enfranchised freedman and an unhappy “disfranchised” (sic) ex-Confederate accepted the situation....