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What I Know About... // Gratz Brown Nametag // Anything To Beat Grant // This Is Not An Organ // Clasp Hands Over The Bloody Chasm // Go West, Young Man, Go West

Besides Nast’s mastery of caricature, knowledge of classic literature and mythology, inventive mind, and impish sense of humor, the incorporation of catchphrases and symbols into his cartoons was one of his most effective, and sometimes devastating, techniques.  That skill is nowhere on better display than in his images of Horace Greeley.  This website features Nast’s Greeley cartoons organized by four catchphrases—“What I Know About…”; “Clasp Hands over the Bloody Chasm”; “Anything to…”; and “Go West, Young Man, Go West”—along with two symbols—the Gratz Brown nametag and the organ that was not an organ.  Nast’s relentless use of these epithets and emblems merged into a negative public image that helped bury the candidacy of Horace Greeley.

Based on the title of a Greeley book, What I Know About Farming, the phrase was used by Nast to ridicule Greeley's pretension to expertise on various topics.

June 24, 1871, p. 584
Farming

December 9, 1871, p. 1152
Everything

December 16, 1871, p. 1184
White Washing Hall

January 20, 1872, p. 52
Horace Greeley [title], Bailing Jeff Davis [left], Grant [right]

February 10, 1872, p. 132
the Presidency

March 16, 1872, p. 208
Bolting

March 30, 1872, p. 241
Carl

April 13, 1872, p. 284
Conventions

April 20, 1872, p. 313
Emigration

April 27, 1872, p. 321
Journalism [unclear]

April 27, p. 328
Navigation, Bailing Jeff Davis

May 4, 1872, p. 345
Twisting

May 4, 1872, p. 351
Hatching

May 4, p. 352
Beating Grant 1872, Beating Lincoln 1864

May 11, 1872, p. 361
Steering, Telling the Truth

May 11 1872, p. 364
Blowing

May 18, 1872, p. 392
Geology

May 18, 1872, p. 400
Blowing My Own Trumpet

May 25, 1872, p. 408
Making Myself Notorious

May 25, 1872, p. 416
Liars

June 1, 1872, p. 428
Horsemanship

June 1, 1872, p. 440
White Feathers

June 8, 1872, p. 448
Getting Votes

June 8, 1872, p. 456
Those Shoes

June 29, 1872, p. 505
Splitting

June 29, 1872, p. 517
Farming

July 6, 1872, p. 528
[blank]

July 6, 1872, p. 536
Getting Votes

July 13, 1872, p. 548
Warfare

July 13, 1872, p. 560
Eating My Own Words

July 27, 1872, p. 584
Stooping to Conquer

August 3, 1872, p. 596
Clasping Hands over Bloody Chasms

August 3, 1872, p. 605
Honesty

August 3, 1872, p. 608
Swallowing

August 17, 1872, p. 637
Shaking Hands

August 17, 1872, pp. 640-641
Resisting Temptation

August 17, 1872, p. 648
Myself

August 24, 1872, p. 652
Being “Liberal”

August 31, 1872, p. 665
Reform

August 31, 1872, p. 668
Being Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy; Party Whipping In [Reid]

September 7, 1872, p. 692
Capping the Climax

September 14, 1872, p. 713
Wilkes Booth

September 14, 1872, p. 716
Lying

September 14, 1872, p. 728
Being the Liberal Candidate; Being the Democratic Candidate

September 21, 1872, p. 729
Flags

September 21, 1872, p. 732
Shaking Hands over the Bloodiest of Chasms

September 21, 1872, p. 744
New Departure

September 28, 1872, p. 745
[blank]

September 28, 1872, pp. 752-753
His Friends; His Present Position; the Democrats; the South

October 5, 1872, p. 764
Bailing

October 12, 1872, p. 785
Secession in 1860 and 1872; Pittsburg, Penn., Sept. 19, 1872

October 12, 1872, p. 792
Letting the Cat out of the Bag; What I Said and What I Meant; Office Seeking

October 19, 1872, p. 804
Reconciliation

October 19, 1872, p. 813
Mistakes; Reform [shoulder-hitter]; Organs That Are Not Organs [Reid]

October 26, 1872, p. 825
Popping the Question

November 9, 1872, p. 865
Riding the Democratic Mule

November 9, 1872, pp. 872-873
Shifting

November 9, 1872, p. 877
the Power of the Press

November 16, 1872, pp. 896-897
[blank]

November 23, 1872, pp. 912-913
Running for the Presidency; Oblivion; Chasms

 



 

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