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
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.
- Date
- 1868
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Bromley & Co. (New York)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Andrew Johnson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Event
- 1868 US Election
- Techniques
- Fear appealScapegoatingName-calling
- 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
