"Tilden or Bood," Harper's Weekly, February 17, 1877

"Tilden or Bood,"
Harper's Weekly, February 17, 1877

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Thomas Nast's cartoon derided Democrats' claim during the disputed election of 1876-77 that bloodshed, and possible a new civil war, would result if Tilden did not become president.

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