The drawing below appeared in a southern newspaper in 1868 what does this drawing represent

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The drawing represents a threat that the Ku Klux Klan (represented by the mule marked with the initials KKK) will lynch scalawags (represented on the left by  Dr. Noah B. Cloud, a southern-born Republican, who, at the time, was serving as Superintendent of Public Instruction of Alabama) and carpetbaggers (represented on the right by The Rev. Arad S. Lakin, a "carpetbagger" from the north who had just been appointed as president of the University of Alabama) on March 4, 1869, the day Horatio Seymour, a Democrat, will supposedly become President. The drawing appeared on the September 1, 1868 issue of a southern newspaper, the Tuscaloosa Independent Monitor.