"Is This A Republican Form of Government?" Harper's Weekly, September 2, 1876.

"Is This A Republican Form of Government?"
Harper's Weekly, September 2, 1876.

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Thomas Nast, the nation's most prominent political cartoonist and a long-time proponent of civil rights, viewed the end of Reconstruction as a tragedy and questioned whether the nation was truly prepared to live up to its democratic creed by offering black citizens equality before the law and protection against violence.
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