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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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nomy, a lone star, doing business and supporting itselfoff its own hook. When the seceding states were in search of aname, Punch suggested that of Slaveownia, andwhen at the convention held February 9, 1861,at Montgomery, Alabama, they adopted the title ofthe Confederate States of America, Punch re-opened his battery in this fashion: The Southern Secessionists must be admitted to beblessed with at least the philosophical virtue of self-know-ledge. They term this new league the Confederate Statesof America; thus they call themselves by what they doubt-less feel to be their right name. They are confederates inthe crime of upholding slavery. A correct estimate of theirmoral position is manifest in that distinctive denominationof theirs, Confederate States. This title is a beautifulantithesis to that of the United States of America. Themore doggedly confederate slave mongers combine, the morefirmly good republicans should unite. Once more when reviewing Jefferson Davis THE LONDON PUNCH 21
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22 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND message to the Confederate Congress, Punchrecognized that slavery was really the bone ofcontention between the two sections: THE JUST AND HOLY CAUSE OF SLAVERY We feel, says President Jefferson Davis, in hisMessage to the Secessional Congress, that our cause isjust and holy. Could not the negroes of the SouthernStates, if they rose against their masters, say just as much,with at least equal justiee, for their own insurrection ? Theless Mr Davis says about justice and holiness the better,if he does not want to preach a dangerous doctrine, besidesbeing considered a humbug. Dash holiness, and justicebe blanked! is the consistent language for Mr. JeffersonDavis. Might is right; we expect to thrash the Northern-ers; and the Institution of Slavery for ever! Again, when General Beauregard declared in aproclamation to the South that unborn genera-tions would arise and call them blessed, Punchdeclared that the reporters, with their proverbialinaccuracy, had omitted the c

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