“Secesh” Industry
Paging through wartime copies of Harper’s Weekly the other day, I came across this interesting editorial cartoon from the June 7, 1862, issue. I thought I’d share:
Paging through wartime copies of Harper’s Weekly the other day, I came across this interesting editorial cartoon from the June 7, 1862, issue. I thought I’d share:
I guess all the funny guys were off at the front…
Are these available on Amazon? And is there a discount if I order in bulk?
I remember seeing these in a talk by Dr. James Broomall! He’s been doing some very interesting work on grisly “souvenirs.”
“Trolling” 19th century style.
Now imagine how they treated slaves and immigrant Irish.
The head wreath wearer bears resemblence to Jefferson Davis, particularly dressed as a woman.
I think some of your readers are making the assumption from this one cartoon that only Southerners engaged in such practices. As far as how the South treated Irish immigrants, the Democratic party was generally supportive of all immigrants, German and Irish. One freshman Congressman named Jefferson Davis attacked the nativists in an early speech. In 1844-1845, he castigated the nativist members for their “sordid character [and] their arrogant assumption.” Davis was friends with a few Irish immigrants in Natchez before the war.
Tom
I’m wondering if this is a double-troll. The cartoon was in Harper’s, which is a very New York yankee publication. So it was as if someone was trolling the yankees about thinking that the southerners collect yankee teeth. As if the cartoonist was saying “you/we yankees are so primitive and prone to stereotyping that you/we think all southerners collect yankee teeth” etc.
Yup … yet another reason to think well of Jefferson Davis … right up there with Mussolini making the trains run on time.
Huh? Mussolini was Italian, not American. And fascism means a strong central government, Mussolini would never have tolerated states’ rights. What a silly thing to say. Please, go to college. Take a history course or two, for your own sake. Learn some history, military or otherwise. Spend some time in Europe, learn another language.