Jackson, though, was actually pretty fond of the nickname, and used it during the campaign to cement his reputation for determination. It satirises Jackson's attempts to get the Bank of the United States to redistribute funds to "branch" banks in various states.
In the image the president is depicted as an ass, who causes chaos by galloping into a group of chicks, representing the US financial system. Jackson was a staunch opponent of the institution that was later to become the Treasury, which he thought was corrupt, and accused of cutting off investment for the westward expansion of the US.
It was German-born cartoonist Thomas Nast — a Republican — who really popularized the two symbols. The cartoon depicts a donkey dressed in lion's clothing, scaring a group of animals around it. An elephant represents the mighty Republican vote, stumbling into a hidden pit.
Nast was satirizing was what he saw as the panic caused by an editorial in magazine The New York Herald, which accused then-President Ulysses S. Grant, a Republican and Civil War general, of "Caesarism. The article claimed Grant was attempting to illegally seize more power — like the Roman ruler Julius Caesar — by apparently gearing up to campaign for an unprecedented third term.
The Democrats are represented as a skittish fox cringing at the edge of the pit. In other images, Nast did portray Democrats as a donkey, picking up a symbol that had largely been forgotten after Jackson left office.
This image is called "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion," and is the first ever to represent the Democrats — rather than a particular Democrat — as a donkey. The donkey represents Democrat-dominated newspapers in the southern states — nicknamed the Copperhead papers — which opposed the Civil War. The artist's own political sympathies played an important role in determining which parties got associated with which animals.
The Republican Party, however, has never had a live elephant at one of its conventions. But a donkey being at the DNC raises a question. Where did these two symbols come from? Why do the Democrats choose to affiliate themselves with an oft-ridiculed member of the horse family? And how did the Republicans come to be represented by an ivory-tusked pachyderm?
The origins of these two iconic political symbols were created by noted German-born political cartoonist Thomas Nast, whose drawings also helped create modern images of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus. Nast moved to New York City when he was 6 years old and displayed artistic ability at an early age. Nast joined the staff of Harper's Weekly in The origins of the Democratic donkey can be traced to the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson. During that race , opponents of Jackson called him a jackass.
However, rather than rejecting the label, Jackson, a hero of the War of who later served in the U. House of Representatives and U. Senate , was amused by it and included an image of the animal in his campaign posters. In the s, influential political cartoonist Thomas Nast helped popularize the donkey as a symbol for the entire Democratic Party.
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