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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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is oratory and to the excellence of hisintentions. BRITISHER TO BEECHER Alas! what a pity it is, Parson Beecher, That you came not at once when Secession broke out,As Abraham Lincolns Apostle, a preacher Of the Union; a gospel which Englishmen doubt;For that Union, you see,Was a limb of our tree:Its own branches to break themselves off are as free. Still, Beecher, if you had been only sent hither,When at first the Palmetto flag flouted the sky,Commissioned foul slaverys faction to wither.And this nation invoke to be Freedoms ally;With your eloquent artYou had won Englands heart;We were fully disposed towards taking your part. Instead of a Reverend Beecher, appealing To our conscience, in Libertys name, for the right,We heard a cool scoundrel advise in the stealing Of Britannias domains, North and South to unite;And your papers were fullOf abuse of John Bull;Whilst he bore the blockade which withheld cotton wool. THE LONDON PUNCH 81 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.—September 26, 1863.
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THE BLACK CONSCRIPTION. WHEN BLACK MEETS BLACK THEN COMES THE EMD (?) OF WAR. 82 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND Malevolence, taking our ill-will for granted, Has reviled us, pursued us with bluster and threat,Supposing itself the remembrance had planted In our bosom of wrongs which we couldnt forget,And should take, in its caseOf misfortune, as baseA revenge as itself would have taen in our place. Tirades against England, with menace of slaughter, Never yet have your Sumners, and such, ceased to pour.Your bards talk of blowing us out of the water,And threaten to punish John Bull at his door.Now this isnt the wayTo make Englishmen prayThat the Yankees may finish by gaining the day. An afterthought only is Justice to Niggers; Tis a cry which those Yankees raised not till they foundThat they for a long time had been pulling triggers, At their slaveholding brothers, and gained little ground.First Abe Lincoln gave outThat hed fain bring about,The Re-union with slavery too, or without. So dont waste y

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