The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . From the collection of the New York Historical Society. dat, you copper-head traitor, nor any odder, cept for MassaLincoln. To which the soldier sadly replies, I am anAmerican citizen and did not think I had fought and bledfor this. Alas, my country! A corrupt election clerk isregarding the scene with disquiet. Im afraid we shallhave trouble if that soldier is not allowed to vote, he says. CENTURY IN CARICATURE 187 To which a companion cynically replies, Gammon him, justturn round; you must pretend you see nothing of the kindgoing on, and k
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . From the collection of the New York Historical Society. dat, you copper-head traitor, nor any odder, cept for MassaLincoln. To which the soldier sadly replies, I am anAmerican citizen and did not think I had fought and bledfor this. Alas, my country! A corrupt election clerk isregarding the scene with disquiet. Im afraid we shallhave trouble if that soldier is not allowed to vote, he says. CENTURY IN CARICATURE 187 To which a companion cynically replies, Gammon him, justturn round; you must pretend you see nothing of the kindgoing on, and keep on counting your THE NATION MOURNING AT LINCOLN S BIER. By Tenniel in Punch. CHAPTER XX NATIONS AND MEN IN CARICATURE IN looking over the historical and political caricature ofthe nineteenth century, one very naturally finds severaldifferent methods of treatment and subdivision suggest-ing themselves. First, there is the obvious method ofchronological order, which is being followed in the presentvolume, and which commended itself as being at once thesimplest and the most comprehensive. It is the one methodby which the history of the century may be regarded as theannals of a family of nations—a grotesque family of ill-assorted quadrupeds and still more curious bipeds, steppingforth two by two frOm the pages of comic art as from thethreshold of some modern Noahs ark—Britannia and theBritish lion, Columbia and Uncle Sam, India and the Bengaltiger, French Liberty and the imperial eagle. It is the onemethod which focuses the attention upon the inter-relation,the significant groupings of these symbolic
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