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Leaders of the Democratic Party

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Seymour, Horatio Democratic National Party Hampton, Wade

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A posater with caricature images of "Leaders of the Democratice Party." Likeness of Raphael Semmes references his blockade running during the Civil War, Wade Hampton and tactics used by Southern Democrats to suppress voting, Horatio Seymour and opposition to the draft during the Civil War, and Nathan Bedford Forrest who under his direction Union troops, many of whom were African American, were executed after they had surrendered.Currently not on view

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National Museum of American History

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Smithsonian Institution