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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
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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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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78 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND What I want to do with either Is impartially to trade:Nonsense I will stand from neither Past the bounds of gasconade. You North, roaring, raving, yelling, Hold your jaw, you booby, do;What, dve threaten me for selling: Arms to South, as well as you ?South, at me dont bawl and bellow. That wont make me take your part;So you just be off, young fellow: Now, you noisy chap, too, start! To be called names tis unpleasant; Words, however, break no bones:I control myself at present; But beware of throwing stones!I wont have my windows broken, Mind, you brawlers, what I say,See this stick, a striking token; Cut your own, or civil stay. In a succeeding cartoon Punch called for aseparation between the fighters, for now, said he,dis-union is strength. Another cartoon hailsthe fraternization—reported to have taken placebetween negroes bearing the flags of the rivalarmies—with the epigram When black meetsblack then comes the end of war. THE LONDON PUNCH 79 PUNCH, OR THE

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