New Britain herald., 1923-02-13

i.ouis-if fan come meddlia' with shs
 0' yer mediation scare. soon as ever
 I've whipped the rebels-and walked
 into Canada and eheNed up Jehn
 sull-daFned if doat put that young
 man in your loeaiion, it Nfll he re-
 msmhered that Napoleon had pTo-
 posed the join mediation of England
 and France, and England had de, elined to interfere,
 rAngust, 1868, Punsh-The s0rs of
 Liberty, Knights of the Golden Circle,
 Governor tioratio seymour of New
 York and the rest had faith that the
 draft riots would, among ether things.
 impress England sufficiently to have
 a good effect against the sdministra-
 iion and the prosecution of the war,
 fsnniel here presents msffSy aH in- eident al these riots hut just that particular incident which would apr
 peal more strongly to english senti- ment. 4 crowd of roughs in the street is hammering negroes who turn ap- pealingly to Lincoln, Lincoln stands one deleeted. erestfailen. dis eouraged hut silent. This is entitled, 'Rowdy Notions of Emsaeipation,'
 'fehruary. 1885. Puneh-in these
 later days Lincoln was represented
 with frightfully protruding under lip and hair bristiing like that of a madman, Probably the worst of all of the distressing Of idneoln's phy' siogmy is that in this the last of it's series. Threatening Notice is the title \ inaata iE paa.aa st ra fiaq sUifh the Senate which is q fat-beilied American eagle. He is remonstratins about the proposed abrobation Of Canadian treaties. saying that such action would drive John Bull over to that other euss. Davis.
 May (. 1865. Punch--The bitter ness has gone, With gentle. symra- thetie strokes the pencil of Tennicl seeks to atone for its past and ob- tains for the artist the certainty Of Britannia sympathizes with Columbia is a picture which has played an important part in the re- iations between these two great na- tions The old time bitterness has not yet died out; the effect often is seen in this country. but so far as 1t could be obliterated by any one man or publication it was obliterated by Tcnniel in Punch.
 'The scene is at Lincoin's bier. The lace of the dead, so often lampooned, Is not visible. being hidden by the Bgure of Columbia who is bending over the form. Two wrcaths arc ly. Ing on tho body. Britannia, with bowed head and her face showing the iepth of her grief. is laying on the hird wreath. At her feet kneels a negro. also weeping, his broken ihackles beside him.
 ".rhe poem by Tom Taylor in this 'ame issue is even more remarkable han the cartoon. Its purpose is to 'xpress how it is possible that Punch, liter all it's bitterness and injustice. an be permitted to portray England's leep grief and final appreciation of he abused It may be remarked in- identally that the poem was severely by many Englishmen as be- ng altogether too abject. And. to- lay great big bronze statue stands n Westminster Square of Abe Lincoln he emancipator.
 The total of the cartoons in the e Imerican Press is less than that in he English publications. In Amer ca, as in England. there were only { wo periodicals which had profess , iona cartoonists-Harper's Weekly nd Frank Leslie's-and in lampoon- ng they were far behind their Eng ish brothers.
 They were decidedly lacking in rtistic skill. Knights of the crayon I ave their chief attention to the line work now performed by the cam ra for the weeklies. There, their imagination found great play al- c hough. to obtain their basis of fact, Ii hey kept well in the front rank with n he armies. had many thrilling ex- d eriences. were as we'll known as the V ar correspondents and left for us a A lctorial record which, though not all b ccurate. is inestimably valuable. a
 Thomas Mast was making his first N ppearance on the scene but had h ot begun to do much as a cartoonist is pictures were idealistic or senti- a ental and ranked among the best of Ia le work of all his years. To the c, udent of the public press and par cularly of the illustrated press this