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| In advocating voting rights for black men, Nast
used this cartoon to contrast former Confederates,
such as Vice President Alexander Stephens,
Congressman Robert Toombs, Admiral Raphael
Semmes, Generals Robert E. Lee, Richard Ewell, and
John Bell Hood, begging for pardons, with a black
Union veteran, who had lost his leg in service to
his country. Although Nast believed manhood
suffrage was a natural birthright, he knew his
national audience required the additional
justification of national service and personal
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