Keywords: Cincinnati Convention Mountain of Horace.JPG en Political cartoon showing 1872 Liberal Republicans gathered around a mountain witnessing the birth of its candidate a mouse labeled H G Horace Greeley the candidate for president with a tail labeled Gratz Brown the vice-presidential candidate The scene is apparently based on a quotation from Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus Appeared in Harper's Weekly May 18 1872 p 392 http //upload wikimedia org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Cincinnati_Convention_Mountain_of_Horace png Creator Thomas Nast 1872 File Cincinnati Convention Mountain of Horace png jpg is the preferred file type PD-old-100 Aesop's Fables 1872 cartoons |