“Miss Columbia’s Appeal”

Thomas Nast
From the Book
Miss Columbia’s Public School: or Will It Blow Over? 
By A. Cosmopolitan
With 72 illustrations by Thomas Nast
Published by Francis B. Felt & Co.
New York
1871

This image was published in the book Miss Columbia’s Public School: or Will It Blow Over?. The book focused on domestic issues facing the United States at the time. Nast and author A. Cosmopolitan, also known as Charles Henry Pullen, emphasized the need for the separation of church and state in the United States, among other issues. Nast depicts Columbia here appealing for equal rights for all people.