Thomas Nast went hard after Horace Greeley (center), the formerly Republican editor of the New York Tribune who left the party to accept the nomination of the short-lived Liberal Republican Party, which aligned with the Democrats in trying to unseat President Grant in 1872. Here, Nast uses strong imagery to show the real meaning of Greeley's desire for North and South to "clasp hands over the bloody chasm" of Civil War: it would leave the freedman at the mercy of the Southern white terrorist, his right hand already bloody and his left clutching a knife which promises more violence.