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title: Blood Will Tell! The Great Race for the Presidential Sweepstakes
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/blood-will-tell-grant-seymour-race-boell-1868/
description: Race cartoon in which a horse with Grant's head, ridden by Schuyler Colfax, leads a horse with Seymour's head whose rider, Francis P. Blair, is being…
section: Collection
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[![Blood Will Tell! The Great Race for the Presidential Sweepstakes](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/blood-will-tell-grant-seymour-race-boell-1868.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/blood-will-tell-grant-seymour-race-boell-1868.jpg)

# Blood Will Tell! The Great Race for the Presidential Sweepstakes

Race cartoon in which a horse with Grant's head, ridden by Schuyler Colfax, leads a horse with Seymour's head whose rider, Francis P. Blair, is being thrown; the latter is called the 'Manhattan donkey' in the title. A crowd of named public figures comments from the stands.

[← Toma! Y qué hacen aquí esos tres? (Look! And What Are These Three Doing Here?), El Centinela cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/three-apes-el-centinela-1867/) [Democratic Candidate →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/democratic-candidates-seymour-blair-matier-kent-1868/)

## Using the same techniques

- [Consult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/consult-of-the-doctors-sick-sultan-antwerp-1683/) (Spanish Netherlands · 1683 · Transfer, Bandwagon)
- ["Jackson ticket" with Hickory tree motto, Baltimore (1828)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jackson-ticket-hickory-tree-1828/) (United States · 1828 · Bandwagon, Transfer)
- [Democratic tickets, "Go it, ye Cripples!" and "Stop Van!!!" (Ohio electors, Van Buren and Johnson), 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/democratic-ticket-stop-van-van-buren-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Name-calling, Bandwagon)
- [Democratic ticket, "Going the whole hog" (Ohio electors for Van Buren and Johnson), 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/democratic-ticket-whole-hog-van-buren-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Bandwagon)
- ["Political race course - Union Track - fall races 1836"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/political-race-course-union-track-harrison-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Bandwagon, Name-calling). Content note: Partisan caricature of named politicians that uses the epithet 'Black Dan' for Daniel Webster and regional stereotypes in the speech balloons.
- ["Grand match between the Kinderhook poney and the Ohio ploughman", April 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/grand-match-kinderhook-poney-ohio-ploughman-harrison-1836/) (United States · Apr 1836 · Transfer, Bandwagon)
- ['The People's Line -- Take care of the Locomotive', Whig woodcut, 1840](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/peoples-line-take-care-of-the-locomotive-1840/) (United States · 1840 · Bandwagon)
- ['The Fox Chace', Whig cartoon of Van Buren hunted by cider-barrel hounds, 1840](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-fox-chace-van-buren-harrison-childs-1840/) (United States · 1840 · Name-calling, Bandwagon)