Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-07
paiitiI7 ana tisel jliI s.rlGan war.

Paasll ana enc .AiIl eT ram War,
Mr.. Washington Wiiks recently, il "a
lecture upon the Wilmington Cub, in
London, showed up the course 81 Punch
towards this country, a,d on the slavery
question, since the outbreak of the war
He referred to the "many humorous tbings
that had been done BY Punch since the
American war commeueed, the first Of
which was the divorce a vineulO, a cartoon,
in which Mrs. Carolina asserted her right
TO larrup her own niger, and Abraham
Lincoln upheld and protected him from
her. In the came plumber Punch described
the Confederates as confederates in the
crime of upholdiug slavery, and urged that
the more doggedly the sIavemongers
combined the more firmly good republic
cans should unite. la April, 1861, Punch
advised the South not to hoist their flag
until they were entitled to do so; but the
South not taking his advice he wrote an
anthem for them. II WAS always neces-
sary that a nation should nave national
anthem: and Punch wrote the following
one for them on April 20, 1851. 1t was
parody on one of our most popular songs
1t ran thus:
@'Wbsn first the South, to fury famed,
Arose aud broke the Union chain,
This WAS the charter Of the land,
And Mr.: Davis sang the strain:
Rule slAVeonia, saVeonia ru Is aud raves,
Christians ever, ever ever have had slaves
G.And Trade that knows no God but gold
Still to thy pirate port repair,
BRst land where Fl sh, where human nesn u SOiuI
And manly hog that ar:
Rule SlATeOnia, slaT onia rules and raves,
Christians ever ever, ever irsFe Deen saves
"That was the language of Punch on the
Goth of April, and On the 4th OF May, when
the news came of the fight at Fort Sumter,
when the frst rebel shot was fired at the
flag of the United States, he wrote, after
describing the fight, 'Aud so ends the first,
and we trust, the last, engagement OF the
American civil war; The difficulties, how
ever, increased in America, and on the
18th of May Punch produced a cartoon Of
Abraham Lincoln sitting before the fire
and a cloud of smoke coming out. Lin
coin was there represented as saying,
'What a nice White House this would be
if it we're not for the blacklist
"In this month Punch appeared to be
sore in spirit, for he wrote, This is no
matter for jest. cannot write about 1t IN
ink, for such deeds should be written in
: of prosperity there must be slavery secured
or a long succession of war On the 18Th
of NAV there was the pencil of the artist
again brought to bear in the cartoon of
sCesar Imperator.' There the Niger was
represented 80 the Emperor, aud the North
and South the gladiators. On the 25th of
NAV Punch changed his note, and he could
not see which side was to blame. Before
that the South was all wrong, but at that
date he could not tell who was right. He
then wrote the following verse:
eco Jonathan and Jefferson,
Como listen to my song,
can't decide, my word upon,
Which Of you Is most wrong.
do believe l am afraid
To say which worse behave,
ThsHorth Imposing bonds on trade,
Or South that men enslaVe.'
1t was asserted that the North had fettered |
trade, and Punch could not see who was
wrong.
"WouId any one credit that for the sake |
of q tWopenDy extra duty upon certain ar
ticles two nations would 90 to war; Go,
no.) No it was not, and so Rr. Punch |
thought in the course of the next week.
On June the LIST, having read President
Jefferson Davis address, in which he said
their cause was Just and holy he remark
ed, Gould not the negroes of the southern
states, if they rose against their masters,
say as much, with at least equal justice,
for their own iDsurrection2'
"But on the 18th of August they had the
fret account of the first great battle that
had been fought. 1t was fought by raw
levies that had never fred a rife with ball
in it before, and they were led up to the
margin OF a wood with cannon bearing
down upon them, and no wonder that they
gave way. The way Punch met that was
by making cartoon, in which they were
described in their fight as being on their
way to take Canada. And still later he
said that the accounts of that battle ought
to be written on flying sheets. BE (Mr. w.
Wilksl would aek the meeting whether that
was the way to encourage friendly feeling
towards US on the part of the Americans"
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