GEORGE CRUICKSHAN ON RED REPUBLICANISM.
This veteran artist has just issued a remarkable sheet in the old style of caricatures, representing a hideous hirsute fiend dancing in the midst of a fearful scene of blaekened corpses and blaziug ruins. In one hand he displays a flag, the staff surmounted with the words—" The blood-red cap of Liberty manufactured in 1789, and made red with blood in 1790-9L-92 and 93." The flag itself bears this inscription—"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity ; Atheism, or a disbelief in God ; seizure of all property ; and death to all who oppose the Red Eepublic." In the other hand he holds a broken sword dripping with blood ; from his mouth proceeds, " Blasphemy, ignorance, and foolery;" and round his waist are strapped two bottles marked " Brandy" and " Petroleum " respectively. This vigorous cartoon is headed—" An awful lesson to the world for all time to come," and is conceived and executed in Mr Cruickshauk's usually telling manner.
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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 871, 7 October 1871, Page 3
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156GEORGE CRUICKSHAN ON RED REPUBLICANISM. Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 871, 7 October 1871, Page 3
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