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HarpWeek
Commentary: This cartoon in the issue of November 3, 1866, appeared about
two weeks before Election Day. It shows Johnson as King with Secretary of State William H.
Seward as his grand vizier pointing to the line for the chopping block. At the left is
Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles as Neptune; "290" on his chest is the
original number for the Alabama, the British-built warship that the Confederates
under Raphael Semmes used to sink Union merchant ships during the war. At the right, Miss
Liberty sits in chains. Seward is shown below because he made a speech in St. Louis after
Johnson spoke in which he referred to a king-minister relationship as an analogy for
Johnson and himself. The man
with his head on the chopping block is Thaddeus Stevens, Johnsons principal
adversary in the House. Behind Stevens are abolitionist Wendell Phillips, publisher John
W. Forney, Senator Charles Sumner (Johnsons principal adversary in the Senate),
Congressman (and General) Benjamin Butler, orator Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, publisher
Horace Greeley, Congressman John Logan and, at the very rear, Thomas Nast himself with a
sketchbook under his arm.
The upside down duck on Johnsons
medallion is significant. John Forney, whose Philadelphia and Washington newspapers
irritated Johnson, had called Forney a "Dead Duck." Nast used the "Order of
Dead Ducks" to lampoon Johnson on several occasions.
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Articles Related to the Initial Impeachment
Discussions:
The President Judged by Himself
August 25, 1866, page 530
Reconstruction and How
it Works (cartoon)
September 1, 1866, pages 552-553
Which Is The More
Illegal (cartoon)
September 8, 1866, page 569
The New Orleans Report
October 20, 1866, page 658
The New Orleans Massacre
IMarch 30, 1867, page 202
Text from Illustration of Andys Trip
October 27, 1866, pages 680-681
The Great Campaign of
66
September 29, 1866, page 610
What Next?
October 27, 1866, page 674
King Andy (cartoon)
November 3, 1866 page 696
Shall the President be
Impeached?
November 3, 1866, page 690
The Popular Will
November 24, 1866, page 738
Andy Makes a Call on
Uncle Sam, Who Rises to the Occasion (cartoon)
December 1, 1866, page 768
Impeachment and General
Butler
December 15, 1866, page 786
Congress
December 22, 1866, page 803
What Next?
December 29, 1866, page 818
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