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Greeley’s debut in Nast’s cartoons for Harper’s Weekly occurred in the
January 30, 1864 issue. In the lower-right corner of the central tableau of
“Central Park in Winter,” Greeley and New York Herald owner-editor James
Gordon Bennett Sr. provide comic relief as ice skaters. Wearing a Scotch cap,
the Democratic Bennett, who had been challenging President Abraham Lincoln’s
capability to serve a second term, has fallen heavily near a crack in the ice
marked “Danger.” Seeing the peril, Greeley digs in his heals and fights for
balance. The Tribune editor had also expressed reluctance about a second
term for Lincoln (for different reasons than Bennett), but eventually endorsed
the president’s reelection. |
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