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| “King Andy I” |
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Source: Harper’s Weekly |
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Date:
November 3, 1866, p. 696
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Complete HarpWeek Explanation:
Thomas Nast and Horace Greeley remained political allies during the
administration of President Andrew Johnson (1865-1868), the Democratic successor
to the slain Abraham Lincoln. The Harper’s Weekly cartoonist and New
York Tribune editor both objected to Johnson’s lenient Reconstruction
policies and supported the effort to impeach and remove
the president from office.
In the November 3, 1866 issue of Harper’s Weekly, Nast ridiculed
Johnson in “King Andy I: How He Will Look and What He Will Do.” The president
is depicted as an angry monarch, and Secretary of State William Henry Seward as
his prime minister. In the background, Greeley and Nast appear among a group of
Republican radicals and administration critics who are in line for execution.
The figure with his head on the chopping block is Congressman Thaddeus Stevens
of Pennsylvania. He is followed by: civil rights advocate Wendell Phillips,
journalist John Forney, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, Congressman
Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts, public lecturer Anna Elizabeth Dickinson,
Greeley (wearing glasses), Congressman John Logan of Illinois, and running up to
the end of the procession is Nast himself, armed with sketchpad and shackled
with a ball-and-chain. |
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