"He
Wants Change, Too,"
Harper's Weekly, October 28, 1876.
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Thomas Nast's cartoon, drawn in response to South Carolina's violent 1876 election campaign, depicts blacks as victims but also warns of the possibility of their taking up arms in self-defense.
"The Boast of the Solid South" features quotes from several Southern Democratic newspapers proclaiming the right to use force in order to remove Reconstruction governments from power.
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