"Move On!" Has the Native American No Rights That the Naturalized American Is Bound to Respect?

At the center of this wood engraving, a man in a dark coat blocks a Native American man—drawn in the stoic, heavily stylized caricature typical of the era, wearing traditional dress and holding a rifle—from approaching a polling station marked THE POLLS. Behind the barrier, a crowd of white men, Black men, and immigrants in top hats jostle freely to vote. The caption's echo of *Dred Scott*'s infamous phrasing is deliberate and pointed. Nast, usually the champion of Reconstruction-era Black voting rights, here extends that argument: if naturalized immigrants and freedmen may vote, the exclusion of Native Americans is a raw contradiction. The irony is double-edged—the same republic absorbing waves of European immigrants denies the franchise to the continent's original inhabitants.