Lincoln in caricature . h >! s h c3 i—i <j ac ,-** h § <u c* N w -5! CQ <3 S f P c^ £ « K w S h < PL, ^1^2?% ?.qraMMmnaway m. LINCOLN IN CARICATURE INCOLN in caricature is a phase of the career of the great war Presi-dent that has thus far lacked adequate treatment. Yet he was the mostbitterly assailed and savagely cartooned public man of his time, andone has only to search the newspapers and periodicals of that periodto find striking confirmation of this fact. The attitude of GreatBritain toward the Union and its President was then one of cynical and scarcelyveiled hostility, a
Lincoln in caricature . h >! s h c3 i—i <j ac ,-** h § <u c* N w -5! CQ <3 S f P c^ £ « K w S h < PL, ^1^2?% ?.qraMMmnaway m. LINCOLN IN CARICATURE INCOLN in caricature is a phase of the career of the great war Presi-dent that has thus far lacked adequate treatment. Yet he was the mostbitterly assailed and savagely cartooned public man of his time, andone has only to search the newspapers and periodicals of that periodto find striking confirmation of this fact. The attitude of GreatBritain toward the Union and its President was then one of cynical and scarcelyveiled hostility, and nowhere were the sentiments of the English government andof the English masses more faithfully reflected than in the cartoons which appearedin London Punch between 1861 and 1865, many of which had Lincoln for theircentral figure. He was also frequently cartooned in Vanity Fair the Americancounterpart of Punch ; in Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper?, and in Harpers , nowhere were the changing sentiments of the people of the North, their likesand dislikes, their alternates hopes and fears, their hasty, often unjust jlincolnincaricat00wils
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