"Let Us Clasp Hands Over the Bloody Chasm," Harper's Weekly, October 19, 1872

"Let Us Clasp Hands Over the Bloody Chasm," Harper's Weekly, October 19, 1872.

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Thomas Nast satirized Horace Greeley's call for sectional reconciliation in 1872.

Although Greeley lost the election for president, many Northerners sympathized with his call for a return to rule by "traditional leaders" in the South so that the nation could put the Civil War and Reconstruction behind it.

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