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The “Brains”
...“W.M. Tweed” and didn’t use his middle name. His eldest son was William Magear Tweed, Jr. Tweed loved ostentation, revelling in his image as “Boss,” and maintaining a bold, commanding...
Altered Condition of Affairs
...to Hotspur; “Why so can I, or so can any man, but they will come when you do call for them?” replied Hotspur. That was a problem Davis never solved....
The “Liberal” Conspirators (Who, You All Know, Are Honorable Men)
...was questionable from the start. In his cartoon demeaning The “Liberal” Conspirators (Who, You All Know, Are Honorable Men), Nast quoted from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, comparing Grant to Caesar; not...
A Few Washington Sketches — In the Senate
Harper’s Weekly – March 23, 1872 Senator Lyman Trumbull (IL) was Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In 1871, he and Senator Carl Schurz had created a tempest in a...
United States Senate Theatre
...in early 1869 when Schurz was a brand new Senator, they conversed in German. Schurz compared the American government unfavorably with Germany’s, ending with “All the Americans are fools!” Nast’s...
About Nast
...ocular shorthand, comprehended the minute details which more subtly reinforced his frontal attacks, and were familiar with his Shakespearean and other literary references. This 1876 cartoon attacking New York Governor...
A Step in the Right Direction
Harper’s Weekly – June 6, 1874 Earlier in 1874, as two conflicting factions competed for state control of Reconstruction in Arkansas, Grant stepped in by backing the elected Republican —...
“Upon What Meat Doth This Our Caesar Feed That He Hath Grown So Great?”
...anti-Grant press also included Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Murat Halstead of the Cincinnati Commercial as “(very cool) cucumbers,” and Samuel Bowles’ Springfield Republican as “Bowles of Soup.”...
A Moonshine Scene
...third term. The Weekly published Grant’s complete text underneath the cartoon. The President was tired and discouraged by the continuing economic depression, scandals and Southern agitation, and uncertain of victory...
Our Modern Falstaff Reviewing His Army
...the Ring, as a diminutive royal jester in front. (Falstaff was commissioned to raise an army for Shakespeare’s King Henry IV, but he allowed the able-bodied to bribe their way...