Brady, Mathew, 119, 155n9
Bray, Robert, 8, 14, 43, 44, 61, 71, 145n6, 145n8, 146n19, 148n52
Breckinridge, John C., 76, 77, 77, 127, 127
“Britannia Sympathises with Columbia” (Tenniel), 113
Brooks, Noah, 9, 24, 38, 60–61, 121
Browne, Charles Farrar (Artemus Ward), 1, 9, 23, 24, 98, 139
Buchanan, James (President), 16, 76
Bunker, Gary L., 8, 109, 154n3, 156n29, 156n33
Burke, Kenneth, 5
Burns, Robert, 12,
Butler, Benjamin (General), 99–100
caricature, 1–2, 24, 73–74, 81, 114, 116, 118, 119, 121–23, 124, 128–29, 130, 133, 136–39. See also political cartoons
Carpenter, Francis, 18, 115
Cass, Lewis (Senator, General), 5, 49–55, 57, 149n18
Chase, Salmon P. (Secretary of Treasury), 31, 62–63, 93
Cincinnatus, 74–75, 75, 78–79, 123
Civil War, 12–13, 14–15, 24–25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 36, 37, 38–39, 61, 77, 86, 87, 89, 101, 102–5, 107, 109, 110, 110, 130, 135; Fort Sumter, 61–63, 150n42
Clay, Henry (Senator), 68
Columbia, 25, 27, 78–79, 79, 109, 111, 113, 133, 135, 135
“Columbia Demands Her Children!” (Baker), 25, 27
Comic News (London), 106–7, 109–12. See also humor periodicals
Congress. See House of Representatives
Conwell, Russell H., 24, 120
“Cooperation,” 80–81, 82
Cooper Union speech, 94, 119, 120, 155n13
Copperheads, 12, 13, 87, 89, 90, 94, 96, 104–5, 106, 152n2
Crockett, David (Congressman), 4, 47–48, 50, 69–71, 151nn13–14
Currier and Ives: “Rail Splitter at Work Repairing the Union” (Baker), 79–80, 80; “‘Uncle Sam’ Making New Arrangements,” 76–77, 77
Davis, Jefferson (President of Confederacy), 77–78, 78, 107, 107–8, 131, 132, 133, 135, 136
Democratic Campaign Songster, The, 117–18
Democratic Party, 4, 14, 22, 50, 52–53, 55, 56, 58, 75–76, 89, 105, 125, 152n2
Douglas, Stephen A. (Senator), 14, 16–17, 55, 56–61, 70, 76, 77, 77, 94, 105, 118, 120, 122, 123–28, 126, 127, 128, 130, 131, 156n29. See also Kansas-Nebraska Act
Downing, Jack (Seba Smith), 15, 145–46n14
Dred Scott ruling, 59
Edwards, Ninian W., 47, 57
Emancipation Proclamation, 77–78, 78, 90, 91, 92, 93, 98–100, 102, 103, 135, 137
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 10
Father Abraham, 139
Feeks, J. F., 29, 100, 104–5; Abraham Africanus I, 28–29, 93, 95, 104, 105; Lincoln Catechism, 29, 51, 93, 94, 100–102, 104–5; Lincolniana, or Humors of Uncle Abe, 29, 33, 33, 96, 97, 104–5
Flush Times in Alabama and Mississippi (Baldwin), 17–18
Fort Sumter, 61–63, 150n42
Ford, Thomas (Governor), 42–43
Forquer, George, 45–46, 70
Frank Leslie’s Budget of Fun, 25, 26, 30, 74, 78, 79, 113–14, 131, 132, 135, 137, 137, 138. See also humor periodicals
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 9–10, 12, 17, 72, 80, 81, 84, 84, 133, 136
Franklin, Benjamin, 4, 21, 42, 65
Fun (London), 109, 110, 112. See also humor periodicals
Funniest of Phun, 25, 27, 28, 74. See also humor periodicals
Georgia Scenes (Longstreet), 19, 56
God Bless Abraham Lincoln: A Solemn Discourse by a Local Preacher, 99–100, 102
“Good Gracious, Abraham Lincoln!,” 78–79, 79, 133
“Good Uncle and the Naughty Boy, The” (Bellew), 131, 132
Grant, Ulysses S. (General), 15, 23–24, 135, 137
“Great and Astonishing Trick of Old Abe, the Western Juggler,” 25, 26
“Great ‘Cannon Game,’ The,” (Tenniel), 107, 107–8
Greeley, Horace, 74–75, 75
Halpine, Charles Graham (Miles O’Reilly), 36–38
Harper’s magazines, 9, 16, 17, 32, 56, 72, 77, 78, 119, 130, 131, 133, 134
Harris, George Washington (Sut Lovingood), 18–19, 96, 97–98, 104; Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a Nat’ral Born Durn’d Fool, 18–19
Harris, Joel Chandler, 2, 3, 7
Harrison, William Henry (President), 66, 69
Hay, John, 36–38
Herndon, William, 10, 18, 39, 43, 46, 49
Holzer, Harold, 8, 74, 121, 153nn23–24, 154n42, 154n3, 156n20
“Honest Old Abe and the Little Boy in Search of His Mother—A Sensation Story,” 124–25
Hooper, Johnson (Simon Suggs), 19
House Divided speech, 14, 58
House of Representatives, 5, 16, 33, 47–48, 49, 53, 54, 68, 69, 71, 99, 101. See also Lincoln, Abraham: congressman
Howard, J. H., 25, 28
Howells, William Dean, 67–68, 70
humor periodicals, 1, 25, 28–30, 74, 89, 106–7, 110–14, 124, 154n30. See also specific periodical titles
“I Knew Him, Horatio” (Howard), 25, 28
Illinois state bank, 21–22, 44
Illinois State Register, 48–49
illustrated news, 71–73, 74, 85, 118, 119. See also specific periodical titles
“In for His Second Innings” (Morgan), 109–10, 112
irony, 5, 11, 44, 45, 50, 59, 99, 143n8, 148n8. See also satire theory
Jackson, Andrew (President, General), 52, 66, 69, 118
“Jeff Davis’s November Nightmare,” 133–34, 136
“Job for the New Cabinet Maker, A,” 80, 81
Joe Miller’s Jests, 9, 14, 23, 24, 28.
joke books, 1, 9, 14, 30–31, 32–34, 33, 34, 35, 96, 97, 108–9
Johnson, Andrew (Vice President), 79–80, 80
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 14, 16, 58, 59, 95, 124–25. See also Douglas, Stephen A. (Senator)
Kerr, Orpheus C. (R. H. Newell), 1, 23; Palace Beautiful and Other Poems, 23–24
“Last Rail Split by ‘Honest Old Abe,’ The,” 75–76, 76
Life of Abraham Lincoln, The (Howells), 67–68, 70
Lincoln, Abraham: appearance, 64, 73, 78, 94, 96–98, 102, 106, 108, 113, 115–39, 117, 127, 128, 129, 131, 132, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 155n9, 155n12; campaign biography (1860), 41–42, 51–52, 67, 74, 120, 150n8; childhood, 41, 43, 66, 67, 68; congressman, 5, 42, 49–55, 56, 68, 71; Cooper Union speech, 94, 119, 120, 155n13; education, 39, 41–42; Emancipation Proclamation, 77–78, 78, 90, 91, 92, 93, 98–100, 102, 103, 135, 137; House Divided speech, 14, 58; lawyer, 15, 19, 21, 41, 67–68, 115; Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 16–17, 56, 58–61, 94, 120, 123–24 (see also Douglas, Stephen A. [Senator]); New England speaking tour, 54–55; newspaper satires, 21–23, 38–39; “rail-splitter” image, 30, 66–69, 73, 74–80, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 82, 85, 88, 93, 106, 113, 123, 124, 128, 128, 130; “President’s Last, Shortest, and Best Speech,” 38–39; “Rebecca” letter, 21–23, 47; stories, 3, 6, 7, 9–20, 13, 25, 27, 28–31, 32, 32–38, 48, 60, 63, 64, 85, 93, 96, 115, 116, 119, 131–32
“Lincoln, Douglas, and the Rail-Fence Handicap,” 128, 128
Lincoln Catechism, The (Feeks), 29, 51, 93, 94, 100–102, 104–5
Lincolniana, or Humors of Uncle Abe (Feeks), 29, 33, 33, 96, 97, 104–5
“Lincoln Signing the Emancipation Proclamation” (Volck), 90, 91
“Lincoln’s Last Warning” (Bellew), 77, 78
Linder, Usher F., 44–45, 46, 47, 70
lithography, 71, 72, 103–4, 151n18
Locke, David R. (Petroleum V. Nasby) 9, 23, 24
“Log Cabin Built by President Lincoln in Kentucky,” 84, 84
“Long Abraham a Little Longer” (Bellew), 133, 134
Longstreet, Augustus, 19, 56
Lovingood, Sut (George Washington Harris), 18–19, 96, 97–98, 104; Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a Nat’ral Born Durn’d Fool, 18–19
Lowell, James Russell, 83, 108–9; Biglow Papers, 2, 23
“Masks and Faces,” 90, 91, 110
Matheny, James H., 23, 46
“May
the Best Man Win” (Nast), 129, 129, 131, 132
McClellan, George B. (General), 25, 28, 31, 32, 109, 110, 129, 129, 130–32, 132
Mexican War. See U.S.-Mexico War
Momus, 74–76, 75, 76. See also humor periodicals
Morgan, Matt, 109–110, 112–13; American War, 112–13; “In for His Second Innings,” 109–10, 112; “Pull Devil—Pull Baker,” 109, 110; “Vampire,” 109, 111
Nasby, Petroleum V. (David R. Locke), 9, 23, 24
Nashville (TN) Union and American, 96–98, 104
Nast, Thomas, 153n24; “May the Best Man Win,” 129, 129, 131, 132; “President Lincoln’s Inaugural,” 86–87, 87
“National Joker, The” (Bellew), 1, 25, 27, 28, 31, 32
Newell, R. H. (Orpheus C. Kerr), 1, 23; Palace Beautiful and Other Poems, 23–24
Newman, William: “Phenomenon of Portraiture,” 136–37, 138; “Tallest Ruler on the Globe,” 135–36, 137
New York Herald, 34–35, 36–38
New York Illustrated News, 72, 86–87, 87, 130, 131
New York Post, 34–35, 36
New York Times, 10, 111–12, 154n42
New York Tribune. See Greeley, Horace
New York World, 25
Noland, F. M. (Pete Whetstone), 21
North American Review, 88–89
Norton, Charles Eliot, 86, 88–89
Old Abe’s Joker, or Wit at the White House, 33–34, 34, 35
Old Abe’s Jokes, Fresh from Abraham’s Bosom, 30–31, 33–34, 108, 147n44. See also joke books
Only Authentic Life of Abraham Lincoln, The, 50–51, 116–17, 117, 120
O’Reilly, Miles (Charles Graham Halpine), 36–38
Palace Beautiful and Other Poems (Kerr), 23–24
“Phenomenon of Portraiture, A” (Newman), 136–37, 138
photography, 72, 118, 119, 121, 155n9
Phunny Phellow, 74, 124, 129, 133, 135. See also humor periodicals
physical labor, 41, 66–68, 71, 73–83, 113, 114, 118, 123, 128
Pierce, Franklin (President), 55–56, 122–23, 156n21
political cartoons, 1, 8, 28, 32, 72–74, 80, 81, 109, 121–24, 127, 130, 133, 147n46, 154n3, 156n20. See also caricature
“Political Race, A,” 127, 127
popular sovereignty. See Kansas-Nebraska Act
“Presidential Cobblers and Wire-Pullers” (Bellew), 130, 131
“President Lincoln’s Inaugural” (Nast), 86–87, 87
“Pull Devil—Pull Baker” (Morgan), 109, 110
Punch (London), 106, 107, 107–8, 110–12, 113–14, 154n30. See also humor periodicals
“‘Rail’ Old Western Gentleman, A” (Bellew), 123
“Rail Splitter at Work Repairing the Union, The” (Baker), 79–80, 80
Republican Party, 58–59, 62, 64, 66, 75, 89, 90, 94–96, 102, 105, 150n8, 152n2
Sangamo Journal, 21, 22, 23
satanic imagery, 90–94, 91, 92, 100, 105, 109–10, 110
satire theory, 2–7, 11, 19, 24, 44, 50, 61, 73, 143n8, 144n12, 144nn16–17
satirist-satirized, 4, 5, 44, 139
satirist-statesmen, 4, 5, 35, 144n9
Scott, Winfield (General), 55, 122
Scribner’s Monthly, 60–61
secession, 25, 30, 62–63, 86–87, 92, 150n42
self-made man, 7, 42, 49, 52, 60, 64–70, 71, 73, 74, 83–85, 87–89, 90, 93, 105, 106, 108–9, 130, 150n3, 150n8
Seward, William (Secretary of State), 10, 29
Shakespeare, William, 12, 25
Shields, James (Senator, Brigadier General), 14–15, 22, 45
slavery, 2, 16, 18, 38–39, 77–78, 78, 90, 94, 99, 101, 102, 148n55. See also abolition
Smith, Charles H. (Bill Arp), 29, 96, 98–100, 103–4; Bill Arp, So Called: A Side Show of the Southern Side of the War, 29, 104
Smith, Seba (Jack Downing), 15, 145–46n14
Southern Confederacy, 29, 98, 104
Southern Illustrated News, 90, 91, 110, 152n7
Southern Punch, 29, 92, 92. See also humor periodicals
southwestern humor, 6, 9, 17–21, 23, 29, 56, 96–99, 104, 106. See also specific authors and titles
Speed, Joshua, 12–13, 46
sporting metaphors, 127, 156n29
Stanton, Edwin (Secretary of War), 1, 15
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 83, 98–100
Suggs, Simon (Johnson Hooper), 19
Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a Nat’ral Born Durn’d Fool (Lovingood), 18–19
“Tallest Ruler on the Globe, The” (Newman), 135–36, 137
tariffs, 15–16
Taylor, E. D. (Colonel), 46–47
Taylor, Zachary (President, General), 50, 52, 66
Tenniel, John, 154n42; “Britannia Sympathises with Columbia,” 113; “Great ‘Cannon Game,’” 107, 107–8
“This Reminds Me of a Little Joke” (Bellew), 31–32, 32, 131–32
Thomas, Jesse B., 49
Todd, Mary (Mrs. Abraham Lincoln), 22, 29, 119
“Tribune Offering the Chief Magistracy to the Western Cincinnatus, The,” 74–75, 75
Uncle Abe’s Comic Almanac, 35
Uncle Sam, 76–77, 77, 108, 129, 129, 131, 152n26
“‘Uncle Sam’ Making New Arrangements,” 76–77, 77
U.S.-Mexico War, 2, 49–50, 55, 156n21
“Vampire, The” (Morgan), 109, 111
Van Buren, Martin (President), 54
Vanity Fair, 74, 80–81, 82. See also humor periodicals
Volck, Adalbert Johann, 102, 153n24; “Lincoln Signing the Emancipation Proclamation,” 90, 91
Ward, Artemus (Charles Farrar Browne), 1, 9, 23, 24, 98, 139
Washington, D.C., Daily Chronicle, 38–39
Whetstone, Pete (F. M. Noland), 21
Whig Party, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 46, 47, 52, 53, 54–55, 68–71, 146n29
Whitman, Walt, 115, 118
“Wide Awake” Poem, A (Benedict), 125
“With All Thy Faults,” 133, 135
Ye Book of Copperheads, 12, 13
Zall, P. M., 6, 8, 13, 32, 71, 115, 147n44
Todd Nathan Thompson is an associate professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he also serves as coordinator for the master’s in literature and the master’s in composition and literature programs. His work has appeared in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, Early American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Prose, Scholarly Editing, Studies in American Humor, and elsewhere.
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