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Nast cartoon of Democratic donkey, from "Harper's Weekly", January 19th 1870.

Rearing donkey labelled " Copperhead Papers" kicks lion labelled " Hon. E.M. Stanton".

Caption: "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion. And such a Lion! and such a Jackass!"

There's a possible scriptural allusion to Ecclesiastes 9:4 -- "a living dog is better than a dead lion" (KJV)
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Source: Raw scan originally uploaded from http://cartoons.osu.edu/nast/kicking_lion.htm to en.wikipedia. Heavily cleaned-up version uploaded to en:Image:Democraticjackass.jpg by User:AnonMoos on 11:19, 28 August 2005.

Ultimate source Harper's Weekly
Author
Thomas Nast  (1840–1902)    wikidata:Q214957  s:en:Author:Thomas Nast
 
Thomas Nast
Alternative names
Thos. Nast; Nast; Th Nast; Th. Nast
Description American-German cartoonist and caricaturist
Date of birth/death 27 September 1840  Edit this at Wikidata 7 December 1902  Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Landau, Germany Guayaquil, Ecuador
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