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title: The Great November Contest. Patriotism versus Bummerism
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/great-november-contest-bummerism-1868/
description: Anti-Republican cartoon. A carriage drawn by horses with the heads of Seymour and Blair, carrying Liberty ('This is a White Man's Government!'), races a…
section: Collection
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**Content note:** 1868 print with a racial slur, racist caricature and dialect; the Library of Congress describes it as strongly racist. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# The Great November Contest. Patriotism versus Bummerism

Anti-Republican cartoon. A carriage drawn by horses with the heads of Seymour and Blair, carrying Liberty ('This is a White Man's Government!'), races a wagon drawn by asses with the heads of Grant and Colfax. The Republican wagon is stalled before a graveyard labelled '100,000,000 White Lives, the Price of Nigger Freedom!' and stones marked 'Negro Supremacy' and 'Killing Taxation'. Black figures are drawn as idle or speaking in dialect.

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## Using the same techniques

- [Miniature of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, Les Passages d'outremer (BnF Fr. 5594, fol. 19r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passages-doutremer-council-of-clermont-colombe-1474/) (France · 1474 · Testimonial, Fear appeal). Content note: Medieval religious imagery and a French text describing alleged killings and captivity of eastern Christians, as used to argue for the First Crusade; the text is shown as written.
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- [Der Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-warner-anti-jesuit-broadsheet-1632/) (Holy Roman Empire · 1632 · Scapegoating, Fear appeal)
- [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling)
- [Proclamation de Sonthonax en créole, Cap-Français (Proclamation of Commissioner Sonthonax in Creole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sonthonax-proclamation-creole-1793/) (France · Aug 29, 1793 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating). Content note: Colonial-era proclamation on slavery and emancipation in Saint-Domingue; speaks of slaves, whips and 'Nègues' in period terms.
- [Gazette of the United States, "The Jeffersoniad" no. VIII, 14 August 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gazette-us-jeffersoniad-1800/) (United States · Aug 14, 1800 · Name-calling, Fear appeal)
- [Tyrants Prostrate, Liberty Triumphant (pro-Polk cartoon on Dorr), 1844](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tyrants-prostrate-liberty-triumphant-polk-1844/) (United States · 1844 · Name-calling, Fear appeal). Content note: Speech balloons contain anti-Catholic and nativist wording ('the ruins of Popery') in the mouths of the Whig figures, written by a Democratic cartoonist and shown unaltered.
- [Brolej Žemajčiaj! (Brothers Samogitians!): hand-painted broken-cross poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/brolej-zemajciaj-broken-cross-1862/) (Russian Empire · 1862 · Fear appeal, Transfer)