. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch; cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American Civil War (1861-1865) . ot been much admired, although hisbackers have been vehement in superlatively praising is more sympathy for the South, as being the weakerside—a fact which Jeffs supporters indignantly deny, andwhich certainly the North has not done much as yet towardproving. Without ourselves inclining one way or the other,we may express a neutral hope that the best player may win;and we certainly shall echo the desire of all who watch thegame if we add
. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch; cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American Civil War (1861-1865) . ot been much admired, although hisbackers have been vehement in superlatively praising is more sympathy for the South, as being the weakerside—a fact which Jeffs supporters indignantly deny, andwhich certainly the North has not done much as yet towardproving. Without ourselves inclining one way or the other,we may express a neutral hope that the best player may win;and we certainly shall echo the desire of all who watch thegame if we add that the sooner it is now played out thebetter. The boasted neutrality was put to a rathersevere test when, in less than ninety days, thevictory of which Abes backers were cock sureproved a double barrelled one at Vieksburg, inMississippi, and at Gettysburg, in news of these tremendous events set all theFederal States of America shouting with triumphon the succeeding Fourth of July. There were nointernational cables in those days. Consequentlyit was not until two weeks later that the newsreached England. THE LONDON PUNCH 71. 72 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND In the interim, on that very July 4, certainNorthern Americans in London, all unconscious ofwhat had happened, celebrated their nationalanniversary almost in earshot of the Punch officeto the great disgust of the gentlemen on itsstaff. There is something peculiarly graceful, [snarls Punchin the issue for July 18th], in celebrating IndependenceDay in London. The Britishers whipped all the worldand we whipped the Britishers, used to be the establishedformula of Yankee self-glorification. It is the Yankeesbelief that they accomplished their secession from Englandby simple conquest; triumphant superiority in arms. Tohold the anniversary of successful insurrection, not to sayrebellion, in the very den of the British lion, treading onhis tail and gently poking him with a playful boot tip, is tocompliment that noble animal
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