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“William Tell Will Not Surrender or Bow to the Old Hat”

Topic:
The Liberal Republican Movement
Source:
Harper’s Weekly
Date:
May 25, 1872, p. 408
 
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Most of Nast’s election-year cartoons were attacks on Greeley and the Liberal Republicans and Democrats, rather than positive portrayals of Grant and the regular Republicans, but there are some examples of the latter.  One of the more fanciful celebrations of hero worship is “William Tell Will Not Surrender or Bow to the Old Hat” (May 25, 1872), which depicts President Ulysses S. Grant as the legendary Swiss archer and patriot, William Tell.

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