The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . SOMK ENVELOPES OF THE TIME OK THE WAR. straggling in the rear finds herself under the paw of UncleAbe, represented as a watchful and alert old mouser, andhas paused, despite herself, to consider her next step. TheUnion, personified as the mother rat of the brood, lies starkand stiff on her back, with the Stars and Stripes waving overher corpse, and underneath, the legend, The Union mustand shall be preserved. Now this idea of the SouthernStates as a brood of Secession rats was capable of infiniteelaboration. It might have been carried on th
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . SOMK ENVELOPES OF THE TIME OK THE WAR. straggling in the rear finds herself under the paw of UncleAbe, represented as a watchful and alert old mouser, andhas paused, despite herself, to consider her next step. TheUnion, personified as the mother rat of the brood, lies starkand stiff on her back, with the Stars and Stripes waving overher corpse, and underneath, the legend, The Union mustand shall be preserved. Now this idea of the SouthernStates as a brood of Secession rats was capable of infiniteelaboration. It might have been carried on throughout theentire four years of the struggle,the procession preserving thesame significant order, with South Carolina in the lead, i6S CENTURY IN CARICATURE V Virginia bringing up the rear, and Lincoln,as a wise and resourceful mouser, ever inpursuit. It could have shown the rats atbay, cornered, entrapped—in short, thewhole history of the war in a form of genialallegory. But if the initial cartoon, Vir-ginia Pausing, ever had a sequel, itperishe
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