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Thomas Nast’s first tangible benefit from Greeley’s Union Square speech
[link to 7/1/71 editorial] of June 12, 1871, was an irresistible notion that
he would store for use three months later. Greeley had derided the “carpetbag”
Northerners who went South after the war as “long-faced and greatly serious
characters looking for the salvation of souls, and whose motto is ‘let us
pray.’ But they always spell the pray with an e, and they always obey the
apostolic injunction to pray unceasingly.” |
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