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“Played Out!”

Topic:
Greeley's Campaign Falters
Source:
Harper’s Weekly
Date:
June 15, 1872, p. 468
 
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September found the Greeley presidential campaign to be a deeply dispirited enterprise of weirdly dissimilar factions, the leaders of which were hoping against hope to bring down the incumbent Republican war-hero in the White House, U.S. Grant.  Nast’s “Key-Note of the Campaign” (dated September 28; published September 18) is a virtuoso display of portrait caricature amidst a carnival of depression, alarm, frustration, fury, nausea, and mortification.  A central point of the cartoon is that the plans of the Liberal Republican progenitor, Senator Carl Schurz (seated at the piano), have gone seriously awry.  Schurz had been exceedingly surprised and disheartened by Greeley’s nomination at the Cincinnati convention, but had stoically joined the campaign.

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