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“Bringing the Thing Home—(Dedicated to the Baltimore Convention)”

Topic:
The Democratic National Convention
Source:
Harper’s Weekly
Date:
July 13, 1872, p. 548
 
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Bringing the Thing Home—(Dedicated to the Baltimore Convention)” was published in the July 13, 1872 issue and was on the newsstands July 3, almost a week before the start of the Democratic National Convention.  It was clearly intended to exert maximum divisive effect on Southern delegates coming to Baltimore.  The Tribune quickly pointed out (on the first day of the convention) that the caption beneath the cartoon had not appeared in Greeley’s newspaper on the given date, and implied that Harper’s Weekly had committed an intentional forgery.  Two weeks later an editorial in Harper’s Weekly (dated July 27) noted that the quotation had been taken from the Tribune of May 1, 1861, three weeks after Fort Sumter had been fired upon, rather than the incorrect date (November 26, 1860) set under the cartoon.

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