Indiana Senator Oliver P Morton Decrying Violence Targeted At African Americans And Republicans

by Charles Dater Weldon

$750 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Signed

New York? : 1875. Original pen-and-ink cartoon, 17 x 14 3/4 inches, an uncaptioned drawing showing an African-American corpse staked beside a knife-carrying scarecrow in macabre warning, crows circling overhead, Morton gesticulating to a well-dressed man at a rail fence overlooking the field, signed Weldon in the lower right corner; it was prepared for publication, probably in the New York Daily Graphic, for which Weldon worked. Dated in blue pencil in the lower blank margin B 6 / Sept 6.

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