Two handouts of 1868 printed on the same page, one lampooning Andrew Johnson for his re-election loss, and another comparing Johnson to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. In the former, on the left, a long-nosed man lasciviously sticks his schnozz in the rear-end of an exhaused donkey, while a caption above celebrates Johnson's impending trip to "Salt River" (a common 19th-century expression for a candidate who has lost an election.) The image on the right shows Jefferson Davis — following a bit of post-Civil War apocrypha which affirmed that the Confederate President had been captured by Union soldiers while wearing women's clothing — running in a dress and looking behind him. A caption above reads, "Jefferson Davis and Andrew Johnson," and below, "Both Traitors, One to His Party; the other to his country."
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