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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch; cartoons, comments and poems, published in the London charivari, during the American Civil War (1861-1865)
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Walsh, William Shepard, 1854-1919, ed
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: New York, Moffat, Yard and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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22 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND

message to the Confederate Congress, Punch
recognized that slavery was really the bone of
contention between the two sections:

THE JUST AND HOLY CAUSE OF SLAVERY

" We feel," says President Jefferson Davis, in his
Message to the Secessional Congress, " that our cause is
just and holy." Could not the negroes of the Southern
States, if they rose against their masters, say just as much,
with at least equal justiee, for their own insurrection ? The
less MR DAVIS says about justice and holiness the better,
if he does not want to preach a dangerous doctrine, beside
sbeing considered a humbug. " Dash holiness, and justice
be blanked! is the consistent language for Mr. JEFFERSON
DAVIS. " Might is right; we expect to thrash the Northern-
ers; and the Institution of Slavery for ever!"

Again, when General Beauregard declared in a
proclamation to the South that unborn genera-
tions would arise and call them blessed, Punch
declared that the reporters, with their proverbial
inaccuracy, had omitted the concluding word
" rascals."
Yet even now, it appealed to both sections to
restrain their hands from flying at each others
throats:

THE LONDON PUNCH 23
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24 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND
ODE TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH

O Jonathan and Jefferson,
Come listen to my song; I can't decide, my word upon,
Which of you is most wrong. I do declare I am afraid
To 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 war.
Not 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 blockhead's skull contains.
You'll have just nothing for your cost, To show, when all is done.
Greatness and glory you'll have lost;
And not a dollar won.

Oh, joined to us by blood, and by
The bond of kindred speech,

THE LONDON PUNCH 25

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.—November 2, 1861.

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