Jan 30, 2009
They Are Swallowing Each Other. Thomas Nast, being a staunch supporter of incumbent Ulysses Grant in the 1872 presidential election, depicts here Liberal Republican candidate Horace Greeley being forced into a symbiotic “swallowing” of certain unappetizing constituent groups, namely the KKK and Tammany Hall. Incidentally Greeley dies before the electoral college casts its votes. Grant wins his second term easily.

They Are Swallowing Each Other.

Thomas Nast, being a staunch supporter of incumbent Ulysses Grant in the 1872 presidential election, depicts here Liberal Republican candidate Horace Greeley being forced into a symbiotic “swallowing” of certain unappetizing constituent groups, namely the KKK and Tammany Hall. Incidentally Greeley dies before the electoral college casts its votes. Grant wins his second term easily.

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