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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch; cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American Civil War (1861-1865)
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Walsh, William Shepard, 1854-1919, ed
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: New York, Moffat, Yard and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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this comment onthe fact that in honor of the anniversary the flagof the United States had been hoisted on the summitof certain buildings, Shouldnt it have been hoistedhalf mast high? The answer came in the form of a thunderousnegative with the next mail from America. Thereafter Punch lost his supreme interest inthe great Civil War. He made no allusions toGettysburg or to Vicksburg. The neutral hopewas painfully dampened by Northern triumphs.His commercial sympathy was all with the losingside. The wish was father to the not very neutralthought that the negro might prove the undoingof his Northern allies. On August 15 appeared acartoon entitled Brutus and Caesar, from theAmerican Edition of Shakespeare. To the tentof Brutus (Lincoln) enters at night the ghost ofCaesar, a black spectre. This colloquy occurs:— Brutus—Wall, now, do tell whos you ?Caesar—I am dy ebil genius, massa Lin-King. Dis childam awful inimpressional. In October appeared a cartoon headed with THE LONDON PUNCH 75
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76 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND unconscious satire, John Bulls Neutrality.John Bull standing with his arms akimbo in thedoorway of his shop is glaring defiantly at twobad boys, clad respectively in federal and in con-federate uniforms, who slink away before hisglance and drop the stones they were preparingto hurl at his windows. Look here, boys, says John, I dont caretwopence for your noise, but if you throw stonesat my windows I must thrash you both. The same moral is enforced in the followingpoem:— MR. BUUL TO HIS AMERICAN BULLIES Hoy, I say you two there, kicking Up that row before my shop!Do you want a good sound licking Both? If not, youd better stop.Peg away at one another, If you choose such fools to be:But leave me alone; dont bother, Bullyrag and worry me! Into your confounded quarrel! Let myself be dragged Ill notBy you, fighting for a Merrill Tariff; or your slavery lot. THE LONDON PUNCH 77

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