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Presidential Election broadside

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09017 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Broadside Date: 1868 Pagination: 1 p. Order a Copy

Associating Democratic Party with former Confederate officers. Reprints portions of Democratic platform accompanied by negative allegedly found in Southern newspapers; includes four large cartoons by Thomas Nast depicting Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, Horatio Seymour, Raphael Semmes, and Wade Hampton.

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