Thomas Nast

In W. T. Block's latest book to be published, "Chronicles of a Historian's Pen," he writes about artist and political cartoonist Thomas Nast.
Did you ever wonder how the caricatures of the Democrat donkey and the Republican elephant originated? Credit Thomas Nast, an early cartoonist, whose pictures were to have a major effect on the American political scene for 30 years. He was a liberal, although Radical, Republican, a dedicated supporter of the Union cause during the Civil War, who used his allegorical drawings to influence his readers in "Harper's Weekly."
In 1870 Nast turned his artistic expertise to the destruction of the corrupt Tammany Hall, led by William "Boss" Tweed. Voters ousted Tweed in 1871, and when the latter escaped from jail, he fled to Spain. Tweed told his minions to:
"Stop them damn pictures! My constituents can't read, but they can sure see Nast's cartoons of me..."
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