[The Kansas row] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Cartoon shows a Puritan rolling up his sleeves to fight a Cavalier (with features strongly resembling Senator Stephen Douglas), who is kicking African Americans in Kansas back across a fence into Missouri and slavery. Nast sided with the free-soil advocates in the bitter conflict that followed the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act (designed by Douglas), which left the slavery decision up to each terriory .
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Signed, lower right: Th. Nast.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.1622)
One of five surviving paintings from Thomas Nast's Grand Caricaturama a humorous account of American history involving real persons and symbolic characters. Nast created 33 paintings, each approximately 8 x 12 feet, for display on a stage as a moving panorama accompanied by an explanatory talk and piano songs. The performances in New York City and Boston received a highly favorable popular response.
Published in: Catalogue of Th. Nast's Grand Caricaturama, 1867, no. 5.
Published in: Nast, Thomas. Five Paintings from Th. Nast's Grand Caricaturama. Introduction and commentary by Lloyd Goodrich. New York: Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon, 1970, p. 11-12.