A True American: William Walcutt, Nativism, and Nineteenth-Century Art
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An overview of Walcutt’s biography in both Columbus, Ohio, and New York City identifies what Walcutt and the men who joined the Order of United Americans, the predecessor to the American Republican or Know-Nothing party, had in common: a lineage that stretched to the Mayflower, an artisanal upbringing, and a family commitment to Protestant reforms. Walcutt had lifelong ties to illustrators, engravers, die cutters, inventors, and skilled mechanics who, under pressure from both industrialization and competition from immigrants, joined brotherhoods like the Odd Fellows and the nativist fraternal order the United American Mechanics. America’s Own, a newspaper that represented the latter, promoted Walcutt and deeply religious artists like Rembrandt Lockwood and Johannes Oertel. Walcutt himself married into a family headed by minister Samuel D. Burchard, who, like many Protestant reformers, combined antislavery and temperance views with anti-Romanism.
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