The Constitutional amendment! : Geary is for Negro suffrage. Stevens advocates it. Forney howls for it. McClure speaks for it. Cameron wants it. The League sustains it. They are rich, and want to make the Nego the equal of the poor white man, and then rule them both. The black roll candidates for Congress who voted for this bill. Thad. Stevens Wm. D. Kelley Chas. O'Neill Leonard Myers Jno. M. Broomall George F. Miller Stephen F. Wilson Ulysses Mercur Geo. V. Lawrence Glenni W. Schofield J.K. Moorhead Thomas Williams The Radical platform--"Negro suffrage the only issue!" Every man who votes for Geary or for a Radical candidate for Congress, votes as surely for Negro suffrage and Negro equality, as if they were printed on his ballot.
[Philadelphia, Pa.? :bs.n., 1866]
Imprint from internal evidence: Geary won the the 1866 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election.
Illustration signed: Reynolds N.Y.
Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 2661
Library Company copy (6)5777.F.80b originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; variant: lacks Leonard Myers following Chas. O'Neill in "The black roll" list.
African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African Americans -- Suffrage.
Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1869.
Broadsides. rbgenr
Campaign literature, 1866 -- Democratic. local
Caricatures. rbgenr
Woodcuts. gmgpc
Afro-Americana.
PA. Philadelphia. 1866. Imprint
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, former owner. Provenance
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