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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
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cks, as Grant does, in the mud,how then ? (Great laughter.) Incontestably, gentlemen,this great and mighty nation must give her a shove on. Shovefor Richmond, gentlemen. (Thats the talk!) Now aboutthese eternal blacks, you expect me to say something touch-ing them, though I suppose were none of us too fond oftouching them, for reasons in that case made and provided,as I used to say. Well, listen. Weve got them on ourhands, thats a fact, and it reminds me of a nigger story.Two of these blacks met, and one had a fine new hat.Where you got dat hat, Sambo? says tother. Out oba shop, nigger, says Sambo. Spex so, says tother, andwhat might be the price ob dat hat? Cant say, zactly,nigger, the shopkeeper didnt happen to be on the premises.(Laughter.) Well, weve got the niggers, and I cant exactlysay—or at least I dont think youd like to hear—what mightbe the price of those articles. But we must utilise our hats,gentlemen. AVe must make them dig and fight, thats a fact THE LONDON PUNCH 93
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94 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND Theres no shame in digging, I suppose. Adam digged, and heis a gentleman of older line than any of the bloated and slavisharistocracies of Europe. And as for fighting, they must feelhonoured at doing that for the glorious old flag that has bravedfor eighty-nine years and a-half, be the same little more orless, the battle and the breeze. (Clieers.) Yes, and whenthe rebellions put down, well see whats to be done withthem. Perhaps if the naughty boys down South get un-common contrite hearts, we may make them a little presentof the blacks, not as slaves, of course, but as legal appren-tices with undefined salaries determinable on misconduct.(Cheers.) Meantime, gentlemen, I wont deny that theniggers are useful in the way of moral support. They givethis here war a holy character, and we can call it a crusadefor freedom. A man may call his house an island if he likes,as has been said by one of those fiendish British writers whoabuse our hospitality by not cracking us u

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