. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch; cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American Civil War (1861-1865) . England, however, itwill only be because we desire to crush this rebellion, as aduty we owe to mankind. It will be because we prefer tomaster the great evil, and do not wish to be alienated fromour duty by an international and comparatively unimportantquarrel; it will be because we prefer national salvation tothe gratification of any feeling of national pride. It will bea great act of self-denial. But when we come from this re-bellion it will be w
. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch; cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American Civil War (1861-1865) . England, however, itwill only be because we desire to crush this rebellion, as aduty we owe to mankind. It will be because we prefer tomaster the great evil, and do not wish to be alienated fromour duty by an international and comparatively unimportantquarrel; it will be because we prefer national salvation tothe gratification of any feeling of national pride. It will bea great act of self-denial. But when we come from this re-bellion it will be with a magnificent army, educated and or-ganised, and with the sense of this wrong weighing uponthem. It will he with a navy competent to meet any navyupon the globe. It will be for us then to remember howEngland was our enemy in the day of our misfortune, andto make that remembrance a dark and fearful page of herhistory, and an eternal memory of our own. That these are the opinions of most people in Americanobody on this side of the Atlantic will believe. But that THE LONDON PUNCH 45 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVAEL—January 11, 16 llill&i. UP A TREE. Colonel Bull and the Yankee Coon. Coon. AIR YOU IN ARNEST, COLONEL? Colonel Bill. I AM Coos. DONT FIRE-] LL COME DOWN 46 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND there are roughs and rowdies in the States, who as they havenothing they can lose by war are always full of bluster andwarlike in their talk, this may any one in England very easilyconceive. Of course it is to please them that such stuff as wehave quoted is stuck in Yankee newspapers; and our solesurprise is that the journals which admit it find it pays themso to do. The rowdies as a rule are not overflushed withwealth and can ill afford to spend their coppers upon liter-ature, which, the chances are, they scarcely would knowhow to read. For the benefit of the American jingoes Punchon December 7th, issued the following warning,with an appropriate cartoon: A WARNING TO JONATHAN; OR, doth he wag
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