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The Liberal Republican Movement |
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| “There’s a Hen On” |
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Source: Harper’s Weekly |
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Date:
May 4, 1872, p. 351
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Complete HarpWeek Explanation:
A week before the start of the Liberal Republican Convention in Cincinnati, a
tiny, unusual, insightful sketch by Nast appeared in Harper’s Weekly
(dated May 4, published April 24). Entitled “There’s a Hen On,” it depicts
Senator Carl Schurz, chairman of the upcoming convention, as a paternal rooster,
perched on a rifle with fixed bayonet, keeping close and apprehensive watch over
Horace Greeley, in the guise of a hen sitting on the Liberal Republican eggs in
the Cincinnati box. The inscription between the gun and hat, normally to be
found on a paper protruding from Greeley’s coat pocket, says “What I Know About
Hatching. H. G.” The image manifests the anxiety that Schurz, a supporter of
diplomat Charles Francis Adams for the presidential nomination, felt toward
Greeley’s intentions for his representatives at the convention. |
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