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It is only a truce to regain power ("playing possum")

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Printed on border: "H. G. 'Clasp hands over the bloody chasm.' " "C. S. 'Freely accept the hand that is offered, and reach forth thine own in friendly grasp.' " Printed on image: "I am against the policy of hate except to beat Grant" "Eman[cipation] by A. Linc[oln] protected by U. S. Grant" "What I know about being liberal by …" "Colored Orphan Asylum
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Cartoons (Commentary)Wood Engravings
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1872 08 24
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Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection

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Art and Picture Collection. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Dead Persons
  3. Greeley, Horace, 1811 1872
  4. Homicides
  5. Ku Klux Klan (19 Th Cent.)
  6. Men, White
  7. Sumner, Charles, 1811 1874

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