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Cartoon addressing the tenuous position of Republican presidential nominee General Ulysses S. Grant as the candidate of a party whose radicals support African American civil rights and Reconstruction under military rule. Depicts Grant holding up a knife inscribed "military despotism" as he straddles the "radical platform" rope that is stretched across the "Salt River" (i.e., political disaster). One end of the rope is tied to the gun of "military reconstruction." The other end is held by "Negro supremacy" depicted as a raggedly dressed African American man who sits upon the tombstone of "Southern Confederacy" and questions where Grant would be without him.; Date of publication supplied by Weitenkampf.

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