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Old Mother Seward, "I'll
rub some of this on his sore spot;
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Please see the HarpWeek
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HarpWeek Commentary:
On March 30, 1867, the Treaty to buy Alaska from Russia for $7 million was signed. Thomas
Nast showed Secretary of State William H. Seward, who was responsible for negotiating the
treaty, rubbing some Russian salve on President Johnson’s sore spot on his head as
Johnson looks in the mirror and sees himself as "King Andy." Johnson is shown as
upset and off-balance, primarily from the passage of the Military Reconstruction Act and a
new law allowing Negroes to vote in Georgetown. At the time, the purchase of Alaska was
considered to be "Seward’s folly" by many Americans. |
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