. Sketches from the Civil War in North America : 1861, '62, '63 . f cultivation, and iscourtesy itself compared with the coarser manifestations of thelike sentiment. The time was when it was politeness to call Lincoln, Abrahamus, and denounce him as a despot whotrampled upon the constitution of his country and steeped the landin the blood of white men for the sake of the negro. Three of the drawings here are especially directed at Presi-dent Lincoln, one founded on the story of his flight to Washingtonwearing a Scotch cap. Mr. Lincoln was induced to change hisroute and time of pass
. Sketches from the Civil War in North America : 1861, '62, '63 . f cultivation, and iscourtesy itself compared with the coarser manifestations of thelike sentiment. The time was when it was politeness to call Lincoln, Abrahamus, and denounce him as a despot whotrampled upon the constitution of his country and steeped the landin the blood of white men for the sake of the negro. Three of the drawings here are especially directed at Presi-dent Lincoln, one founded on the story of his flight to Washingtonwearing a Scotch cap. Mr. Lincoln was induced to change hisroute and time of passing through Baltimore when on the way tobe inaugurated, because it was discovered that the crowd certainto collect there to receive him would be hostile, boisterous and per-haps dangerous—and it was believed there was a plot to assassinatehim. The recollection of the attack upon the Sixth MassachusettsRegiment of volunteers in Baltimore, a short time after, and themurder of Lincoln at the beginning of his second term, remove all 230 i_r i_r Z3~ & PASSAGE THROUGH BALTIMORE CONFEDERATE WAR ETCHINGS—Volck 13 ideas of the ridiculous from the entertainment of this apprehension—which was loudly denounced and hooted at the time as ludicrousand disgraceful. The Scotch cap story was a pure fiction, and theconstant circulation it has had is an instance of the survival of thepicturesque. The Worship of the North is an etching in which there iscontained a volume. The negro on the altar is the idol, and aroundhim are bayonets with the John Brown pike most conspicuous inthe centre; and St. Ossawatomie is a statue with a pike standingon a pedestal, an object of adoration and assumed to be an inter-cessor. A white man is offered as a sacrifice to the negro idol;Henry Ward Beecher has just used the sacrificial knife; CharlesSumner bears a torch. Horace Greeley swings a censer which emitssnakes. Ben Butler, General Scott, General Halleck, GeneralHunter, Governor Andrew, Mrs. Harr
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