. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch; cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American Civil War (1861-1865) . ed 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 it, that theresmans work to do to beat these rebels. They
. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch; cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American Civil War (1861-1865) . ed 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 it, that theresmans work to do to beat these rebels. They may run away,no doubt. As the Irishman says, pigs may fly, but theyredarned onlikely birds to do it. They must be well whipped,gentlemen, and I must trouble you for the whipcord. (Youshall have it!) Rebellion is a wicked thing, gentlemen, anawful wicked thing, and the mere nomenclating thereofwould make my hair stand on end, if it could be more stand-onender than it is. (Laughter.) Truly awful, that is whenit is performed against mild, free, constitutional sway likethat of the White House, but of course right and glorious THE LONDON PUNCH 91. 92 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND when perpetrated against ferocious, cruel, bloodthirsty oldtyrants like George the Third. We must punish theserebels for their own good, and to teach them the blessings ofthis mighty and transcendental Union. (We ivill, %ve will!) Allvery tall talking, gentlemen, but talking wont take it would, and there had been six Richmonds in the field,we should long since have took them all. If Richmond wouldfall like Jericho, by every man blowing of his own trumpet,weve brass enough in our band for that little feat in acous-tics. But when a cow sticks, as Grant does, in the mud,how then ? (Great laughter.) Incontestably, gentlemen,this great and mighty nation must give her a shove on. Shovefor Richmond, gentlemen. (Thats the talk!) Now aboutthese eternal blacks, you expect me to say something touch-ing them, though
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