...s young men who had nothing to lose and all to gain if they could succeed in electing Father Greeley President of the United States. The whole attempt was so abortive and so ludicrous that it gave Thomas Nast , then at the meridian of his power as a cartoonist, an opportunity to inflict the most cruel blows upon Mr. Greeley. One caricature which caused great amusement was a cartoon of Mr. Greeley as the ca...