. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch; cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American Civil War (1861-1865) . 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
. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch; cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American Civil War (1861-1865) . 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 with credit for some mag-nanimity. The British residents in Paris would hardlyhave the confiding generosity and the taste in like manner tocelebrate the return day of the Battle of Waterloo in theFrench capital. We pause here to ask whether the Confederates do not,as they reasonably may, repeat the Yankee boast abovequoted with brag additional ? Have they not begun to say,The Britishers whipped all the world, the Yankees whippedthe Britishers and we whipped the Yankees ? Not yet, THE LONDON PUNCH 73. 74 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND perhaps. Averse to indulgence in premature exultation,they may reserve that saying for Independence Day No. 2 In conclusion Punch makes this comment onthe fact that in honor of the anniversary the flagof the United States had been hoisted on the summitof certain buildings, Shouldnt it have been hoistedhalf mast high? The answer came in the form of a thunderousnegative with the next mail from America. Thereafter Punch lost his supreme interest inthe great Civil War. He made no allusions toGettysburg or to Vicksburg. The neutral hopewas painfully dampened by Northern commercial sympathy was all with the losingside. The wish was father to the not very neutralthought that the negro might prove the undoingof his Northern allies. On August 15 appeared acartoon entitled Brutus and Caesar, from theAmerican Edit
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