. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch; cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American Civil War (1861-1865) . 24 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND ODE TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH 0 Jonathan and Jefferson,Come listen to my song; 1 cant decide, my word upon,Which of you is most wrong. I do declare I am afraidTo say which worse behaves, The North, imposing bonds on Trade,Or South, that Man enslaves. And here you are about to fight, And wage intestine either of you in the right: What simpletons you are!Too late your madness you will see, And when your passion cools,Snak
. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch; cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American Civil War (1861-1865) . 24 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND ODE TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH 0 Jonathan and Jefferson,Come listen to my song; 1 cant decide, my word upon,Which of you is most wrong. I do declare I am afraidTo say which worse behaves, The North, imposing bonds on Trade,Or South, that Man enslaves. And here you are about to fight, And wage intestine either of you in the right: What simpletons you are!Too late your madness you will see, And when your passion cools,Snakes! you will bellow, How could we Have been such tarnal fools! One thing is certain; that if you Blow out each others brains,Twill be apparent what a few Each blockheads skull have just nothing for your cost, To show, when all is and glory youll have lost; And not a dollar won. Oh. joined to us by blood, and byThe bond of kindred speech, THE LONDON PUNCH 25 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.—November 2, KING COTTON BOUND; Or, The Modern Prometheus. 26 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND And further, by the special tie Of slang, bound each to each,All-fired gonies, softhornd pair, Each other will you lick ?You everlastin dolts, forbear! Throw down your arms right slick. Youll chaw each other up, you two, Like those Kilkenny cats,When they had better things to do. Improvin off the come, shake hands, together jog On friendly yet once more;Whip one another not: and flog Creation, as before! Still again. Punch showed good feeling in ad-monishing Lord Palmerston, after firing on Sum-ter, to keep Great Britain neutral. Well Pain, says Mr. Punch to his workman,of course I shall keep you on, but you must stickto peace-work. Nor could the North object to the cartoon, inMay, 1861, in which Lincoln made his first ap-pearance in Punch. The face, faithfully limned fromthe early beardless photographs, represented himas a man of clean-cut intelligent features,—in
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