04392ckd a22006257a 4500 15595093 20250607030412.0 cr|||||||||||| kj|||| 940524s1868 xx nnn u kneng 15595093 7 cbc orignew u ncip 20 y-printpho qw44 2013-05r LCAP batch update 2025-06-01-04:00: LCAPM-861 2008661705 (DLC)app1994000624/PP LC-USZ62-43958 DLC (b&w film copy neg.) DLC eng DLC DLC gihc Broadside portfolio 236 no. 27 Broadside portfolio 236 no. 27 Printed Ephemera copy. 61 x 96 cm. Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902. Leaders of the Democratic Party : The rioter Seymour ... The butcher Forrest ... The pirate Semmes ... The hangman Hampton ... [graphic]. [n. p., 1868. 1 print : wood-engraving with letterpress on wove paper ; 89.7 x 54 cm (sheet) still image sti rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia Digital image computer c rdamedia sheet nb rdacarrier Digital image online resource cr rdacarrier Signed: Th. Nast. Title appears as it is written on the item. Cartoons of the leaders of the Democratic Party. A searing, election-year indictment of four prominent figures in the Democratic party, three of them former Confederate officers. Former New York governor and Democratic presidential nominee Horatio Seymour is portrayed as a "rioter." Standing in a burning city, he waves his hat in the air while he steps on the back of a crawling figure. In the background a corpse hangs from a lamppost. Between 1862 and 1864 Seymour had opposed Lincoln's war policies, and he was branded as instigator of the 1863 New York draft riots. (See "The Meeting of the Friends, City Hall Park," no. 1863-12.) Below the portrait are inflammatory passages from his speeches. Tennessee general Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder of the Ku Klux Klan, and infamous for his role in the massacre of surrendered Union troops at Fort Pillow, is called "The Butcher Forrest." He waves a flag labeled "No Quarter" and fires a pistol. Extracts from reports of the Pillow massacre are given below his picture. Confederate admiral Raphael Semmes is portrayed as a pirate, wielding a knife in one hand and holding aloft a flaming torch in the other. Behind him flies a flag with a skull and crossbones. To the right a family cowers in fright. Semmes was the scourge of Union shipping during the Civil War. Under his command the "Alabama," a British-built ship, captured sixty-two merchant vessels, most of which were burned. An excerpt from Semmes's July 1868 speech at Mobile, Alabama, appears below this image. Confederate cavalry officer Wade Hampton appears as a hangman. He holds his plumed hat at his side and wears a uniform embossed with a skull and crossbones and a belt inscribed "C.S.A" (Confederate States of America). In the distance three Yankee soldiers hang from a gallows. No known restrictions on publication. Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1868-7. Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877. Hampton, Wade, 1818-1902. Semmes, Raphael, 1809-1877. Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886. Ku Klux Klan (19th century) Draft (Military service) 1860-1870. lctgm Presidential elections United States 1860-1870. lctgm Political cartoons 1860-1870. gmgpc Wood engravings 1860-1870. gmgpc Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) DLC Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu digital file from b&w film copy neg. cph 3a44195 p http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a44195 LAC nsk 2021-07-28 update (1 card) rblacfederal 20210728 pp/cph pp/app pp/minload pp/diof rbc/rbpe c-Rare Bk Coll Broadside Collection, portfolio 236, no. 27 obj.