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1872
"Too Thin, Massa Grant"
1) The pre-eminent issue of this cartoon is to associate the Democrats with the Confederate cause and Reconstruction hostility. President Grant’s intention was to scare the black men with the KKK impersonators and trick them into voting Republican.
2) The KKK members are depicted bogusly and it is obvious that they are impersonators. The former slave is depicted comically, laughing in the face of the “KKK members” because he knows to vote for Greeley, a former abolitionist.
3) This cartoon does have a political effect of demonstrating the corruptness of Grant’s presidency
1876
http://elections.harpweek.com/1876/cartoon-1876-Medium.asp?UniqueID=45&Year=1876
1) This cartoon brings up the issue of the electoral commission’s decision.
2) Tilden is depicted in superior to the large President Hayes as Columbia (“Mrs. US”) looks confusedly at Tilden.
3) This cartoon does have a political effect of displaying the electoral commission’s decision as an elite ball. This depicts the election campaigns controversy over the U.S.’s decision of the candidate who is truly correct to “dance” with Mrs. U.S.