This is a Whie Man's Government - We regard the Reconstruction Acts (so called) of Congress as usurpations, and unconstitutional, revolutionary, and void - Democratic Platform 1868
This is a White Man's Government - We regard the Reconstruction Acts (so called) of Congress as usurpations, and unconstitutional, revolutionary, and void - Democratic Platform In this well known cartoon, Nast represents members of the Democratic party crushing an African American Union veteran who reaches for a ballot box. The man on the left is a caricature of an Irish American man, whose hat reads "5 Points," referring to the New York City Irish residents, who are often configured as a mob. The man in the middle is identified by the initials on his hat "NBF" - Nathan Bedford Forrest, a former Confederate general and founder of the Ku Klux Klan. The man on the right is a wealthy man from 5th Avenue in New York who holds a stack of money that will be used to purchase votes.
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