The image shows a strong message about Andrew Johnson’s role in the Reconstruction. The image also has pieces of texts that lead to the criticizing of the horrible job the president did during the reconstruction.

In the image "Johnson and Reconstruction Cartoon” (1866) there are characters that are dressed as certain people. In the center of the image there is a person that is dressed similarly to Shakespeare, and the man on the right is a wounded African American. On top of the image the word “treason” appears and along with it saying that “traitors should be punished”. This text depicts that Andrew Johnson was doing the opposite of what he said he would. People were seeing that the president was lying and turning his back on African Americans during the Reconstruction. In the image there are also names of places where significant events occurred. One place mentioned was Memphis, this is where race riots happened. This detail can also represent that Johnson was not helping the cause, but instead making it worse by letting violence take over.