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Some are told by the humans they helped, others from the enemies who stood against them, some are in the present tense, some are past, some relay a single incident, some cover an entire career. He never anthropomorphizes any of the animals, so none of the tales are expressly told from their perspective, but he still finds a number of different approaches to relay them. Certainly in the animals he chose to write about (from slugs to seagulls to dolphins to elephants) but more poignently in how he told their stories. One of the things that quickly stood out to me while reading this was the variety. Some of the stories focus on a particular animal, while others look at how a species was used more broadly, and still others fall somewhere in between by providing snippets of stories of individual animals to provide a kind of overview. It's in an anthology format, telling the stories of various animals that have been used in human warfare. While he continued working in a variety of (mostly) artistic capacities, he experienced a number of commercial failures but was eventually given a consulship by President Teddy Roosevelt, largely due to his work from years earlier.ДЇour-Fisted Tales: Animals in Combat is Ben Towle's latest book, which came out last month. His importance diminished significantly after he left Harper's Weekly in the 1880s (and, ironically, Harper's Weekly's significance declined without Nast) and Nast lost most of his wealth in 1884. Allegedly, when he was a child in New York City, he was frequently bullied for his small size and he may have transferred that general resentment of a handful of local Irish boys to the Irish as a whole.Дespite being perhaps the most widely recognized American cartoonist at the time, Nast's career began going downhill not long afterwards. A German-born immigrant himself, one wonders if Nast felt more resentment against the Irish because he was in more direct competition with them. He regularly showed them as drunken neanderthals, and here is no exeception. Interestingly, while Nast did have a prior history depicting Blacks in America with a level of dignity, rarely resorting to even the generally accepted visual tropes of the day, he evidently had few qualms portraying the Irish in a negative light. Absurd as it seems to me, I've seen old references where someone makes the comparison, verbally or visually, of apes evolving to Africans evolving to Irish evolving to Caucasians.

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In that respect, they were viewed similarly to Black people but, by virtue of their skin color, they just weren't quite as bad. They were considered lazy, perpetually drunken louts, not very far removed from apes. Both the Church and the white Southerners generally supported the Democratic party whereas Nast and HarperвЂ™s Weekly subscribed to Republican doctrine.The Irish were racially stereotyped very poorly for generations. For the Irish, it is the Roman Catholic Church for the blacks, it is the white people that they depend on for their livelihood. In both instances, there are outside forces affecting their voting decision other than their personal political beliefs. The controversy regarding the Election of 1876 was not just the Black manвЂ™s fault the responsibility is equally shared by Black and White.

This suggests that Nast believes that North and South are equally negatively affecting United StatesвЂ™ politics. On the upper portion of the scale, вЂњNorthвЂќ is inscribed on the side with the Irishmen, and вЂњSouthвЂќ is inscribed on the side with the Black man. By setting the Irish and Blacks as equal on the scale, he is asserting that their votes are equally inferior. Over at this wikispaces page they summarize the comic this way. And, in his eyes, ignorant voters were recently freed slaves and Irish-Americans, both caricatured here. He blamed ignorant voters for making the election so contentious that the compromise needed to be struck. While Nast was an abolistionist and often depicted Black people with a level of dignity not afforded them almost anywhere else at the time, he was also a strong supporter of Reconstruction and was upset at its ending. Hayes was awarded the presidency however, it's generally believed that it was on the condition of ending the Reconstruction in the South, which was a Democratic goal. Without getting into a lot of details, a close modern analogy would be the Bush/Gore race from a few years back. That particular election was very contentious.

The title of the image is called 'The Ignorant Vote' and ran shortly after that year's elections.

The headline image here is the Thomas Nast cover cartoon from an 1876 edition of Harper's Weekly.

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