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"The Champion of the Fenians."

The Champion of the Fenians. Engraving
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Engraving of political cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast

Engraving and caption: 12.5 cm x 11.4 cm

From Harper's Weekly, 21 October 1876, page 860.


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[ This description is from the project: Who Counts? A Look at Voter Rights through Political Cartoons ]

In 1876, when Charles Francis Adams, a reform Republican, ran for governor of Massachusetts as a Democrat, Thomas Nast parodied the austere Adams as the hypocritical “Champion of the Fenians”—attired as a stereotypical Irish-American politician.

See also, in the same issue of Harper’s, Nast’s depiction of Charles Francis Adams as a frozen block of ice upon which “Massachusetts Democracy” wrecked.