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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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Henceforth a new Phoenix, from oer the Atlantic, Our old fire-office friend from his brass-plate displaces; With a plumage of greenbacks, all ruffled, and anticIn Old Abes rueful phiz and Old Abes shamblinggraces. As the bird of Arabia wrought resurrection By a flame all whose virtues grew out of what fed it, So the Federal Phoenix has earned re-election By a holocaust huge of rights, commerce, and credit. On December 10th, Punch published this brutalburlesque anticipation of that noble speech madeby President Lincoln at his second Inaugura-tion, which has now taken its due rank amongthe great masterpieces of forensic English: PRESIDENT LINCOLNS INAUGURAL SPEECH (By Ultramarine Telegraph) Well, weve done it, gentlemen. Bully for us. Cowhidedthe Copperheads considerable. Non nobis, of course, butstill I reckon we have had a hand in the glory, some. Thatreminds me of the Old World story about the Hand of Glory,which I take to have been the limb of a gentleman who had THE LONDON PUNCH 89
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90 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND been justified on the gallows, and which the witches turnedinto a patent moderator lamp, as would lead a burglar safeinto any domicile which he might wish to plunder. We aintburglars, quite tother, but I fancy that if Uly Grant couldget hold of that kind and description of thing to help him intoRichmond, hed not be so un-Christian proud as to refuse thehand of a malefactor. (Right, right!) Well, right or lefthand, thats no odds, gentlemen. (Laughter.) Now I amsovereign of the sovereign people of this great and unitedrepublic for four years next ensuing the date hereof, as Iused to say when I was a lawyer. (You are! Bully for you!)Yes, gentlemen, but you must do something more than bullyfor me, you must fight for me, if you please, and whether youplease or not. As the old joke says, theres no compulsion,only you must. Must is for the King, they say in the rottenOld world. Well, Im King, and you shall be Viceroys overme. But I tell you again, and in fact I repeat

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