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The Halt
...color, but there was no hint of caricature or stereotyping in their appearance. Both Nast and the Blacks had come a long way since his 1861 caricatures in the New...
The Union Christmas Dinner
...right completed the allegorical imagery. If the Confederacy would lay down its arms, surrender unconditionally and be contrite, the Union — with Lincoln as its dominant forgiving father — would...
Peace in Union
Painting – 1895 On April 9, 1895 — exactly 30 years after Appomattox and almost ten years after Grant died — Nast completed Peace In Union, a nine-by-twelve foot picture...
The Guilty Conscience; or, Who’s that Knocking at the Door?
Phunny Phellow– July 1865 Nast’s cartoon referred to the Alabama Claims controversy. The Confederate ship Alabama was illegally constructed (in violation of neutrality) in Liverpool and resupplied in France. Commanded...
The Union Christmas Dinner
...right completed the allegorical imagery. If the Confederacy would lay down its arms, surrender unconditionally and be contrite, the Union — with Lincoln as its dominant forgiving father — would...
Civil Service Reform
...of jobs and political offices in return for votes and money. The complementary necessity was political assessments on the patronage recipients, essential for funding the electoral machinery that kept their...
In Memoriam — Our Civil Service as It Was
...a Commission to recommend changes. Grant included them in his December 1871 message to Congress but Congress didn’t act. In 1877, Curtis was close to President Rutherford Hayes and expected...
The Prospect in New York
...bribe state officials, who would determine election counts and winners. The only factual inaccuracy was that the bribe money would not come from Tilden but from his Democratic associates. The...
Apollo Amusing the Gods (extract)
...a man. At a Yale commencement dinner earlier that summer, Brown reportedly got so drunk that he buttered his watermelon. In a post-election cartoon with 25 recognizable characters in it,...
“We Are on the Home Stretch.” — New York Tribune, October 9, 1872
...foreseen, and its cleverness made it among the most controversial images of the campaign. Responding to Reid’s bravado statement about the home stretch, the Times commented: “True. H.G. is going...