Nativism and Bigotry
Thomas Nast

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 Thomas Nast by de Grimm
Drunken Irish mob rule.

 
 
Pardon: Shall I trust these men
Harper's Weekly, Aug. 5, 1865
Franchise: And not this man?
Harper's Weekly, Aug. 5, 1865

 


Harper's Weekly, Sept. 5, 1868


 
 
 
 Nast anti-Catholic caricature, May 8, 1875
 Nast depicted the Irish as violent ape-like creatures

 
 
 
     An Irish thug and a Catholic priest carve up the Democratic
     Party goose that laid the golden eggs.
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.