The two platforms From a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republican exponents of black suffrage, issued during the 1866 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race. (See The Constitutional Amendment, no. 1866-5.) The poster specifically characterizes Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer's platform as for the White Man, represented here by the idealized head of a young man. (Clymer ran on a white-supremacy platform.) In contrast a stereotyped black head represents Clymer's opponent James White Geary's platform, for the Negro. Below the portraits are the words, Read the platforms. Congress says, T
The two platforms From a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republican exponents of black suffrage, issued during the 1866 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race. (See The Constitutional Amendment, no. 1866-5.) The poster specifically characterizes Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer's platform as for the White Man, represented here by the idealized head of a young man. (Clymer ran on a white-supremacy platform.) In contrast a stereotyped black head represents Clymer's opponent James White Geary's platform, for the Negro. Below the portraits are the words, Read the platforms. Congress says, The Negro must be allowed to vote, or the states be punished. Above is an explanation: Every Radical in Congress Voted for Negro Suffrage. Every Radical in the Pennsylvania Senate Voted for Negro Suffrage. Stevens Pennsylvania Representative Thaddeus Stevens, Forney John W. Forney, editor of the Philadelphia Press:, and Cameron Pennsylvania Republican boss Simon Cameron are for Negro Suffrage; they are all Candidates for the United States Senate. No Radical Newspaper Opposes Negro Suffrage. Geary said in a Speech at Harrisburg, 11th of August, 1866--There Can Be No Possible Objection to Negro Suffrage. 1 print : woodcut with letterpress on wove paper ; x cm (image) Español: Las dos Plataformas; De una serie de carteles racistas que atacan los exponentes del republicano radical del derecho al voto del negro, publicados durante la raza gubernativa 1866 de Pennsylvania. (Véase el La enmienda constitucional, No. 1866-5.) El cartel caracteriza específicamente la plataforma del candidato Democrata Hiester Clymer como para el hombre blanco, representado aquí por la cabeza idealizada de un hombre joven. (Clymer funcionó en una plataforma de la blanca-supremacía.) En cambio una cabeza negra estereotipada representa a la plataforma del oponente de Clymer; James Blanco Geary como para el Negro. Debajo de los retratos son las palabras, Lea las plat
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