Content note: 1868 Republican broadside with violence imagery and a Black victim, naming Democratic figures as a rioter, butcher, pirate and hangman. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Leaders of the Democratic Party: The Rioter Seymour, the Butcher Forrest, the Pirate Semmes, the Hangman Hampton
Four-panel broadside from the 1868 campaign. Under the heading 'Leaders of the Democratic Party', caricatures of Horatio Seymour ('The Rioter'), Nathan Bedford Forrest ('The Butcher'), Raphael Semmes ('The Pirate') and Wade Hampton ('The Hangman') each stand over printed extracts from their own speeches or official reports, among them Seymour's 1863 speeches, the report on Fort Pillow and Semmes's July 1868 speech at Mobile. The ticket's presidential nominee is set beside Confederate officers by selected quotation.
- Date
- 1868
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Thomas Nast (signed); publisher not stated
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Individual
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Andrew Johnson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Event
- 1868 US Election
- Techniques
- Name-callingCard stackingTransfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1868; over 150 years old); LOC records no known restrictions on publication
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
