ORIGINAL THOMAS NAST (1840-1902) CARTOON WOODCUT - POLITICAL SATIRE 

“THE HERB THAT WILL HEAL THE DISCONTENTED WILD IRISHMAN"

 Source:  Harper’s Weekly

 Date: December 21, 1872. p. 997. Original page, 11 x 16. Good condition. Stored in paper lined plastic sleeve, ships rolled in a sturdy shipping tube. 

In September 1872, Froude accepted an invitation to lecture in the United States, where his work was also well known. At the time, Americans (particularly Irish-Americans) generally believed in the destructiveness and injustice of Britain's Irish policies,[33] and Froude hoped to change their views. The lectures, widely discussed, raised the expected controversy, with opposition led by the Dominican friar Father Thomas Nicholas Burke. Opposition caused Froude to cut his trip short, and he returned to England disappointed both by his impression of America and by the results of his lectures.[34]