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    •   - An Anxious Mamma and a Fractious Child
      - Prof. Lincoln in His Great Feat of Balancing
      - Robbery of the National Orchard
      - Schoolmaster Abroad
      - The Last Advice
      - The Political Rail Splitter
      - Winding Off the Tangled Skein
      - A President-elect’s Uncomfortable Seat
      - Castle Lincoln – No Surrender: Fort Davis – in Ruins
      - Cooperation
      - How Abe Lincoln Escaped the Fire-Eaters of the South and the Flames of Secession
      - Old Secesh Crossing the Potomac
      - Black Draught
      - Great and astonishing trick of Old Abe, the Western juggler
      - Great Fight for the Championship
      - Hurt You, Uncle Bill
      - Taking the Pill
      - The Generous Rivals
      - The Old Woman in Trouble
      - How Abe Lincoln Escaped the Fire-Eaters of the South and the Flames of Secession
      - Virginia Pausing
      - South Carolina’s Ultimatum
      - Strong's dime caricatures. No. 3, South Carolina Topsey in a fix
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    An Anxious Mamma and a Fractious Child

    An Anxious Mamma and a Fractious Child

    Title: An Anxious Mamma and a Fractious Child

    Year: 1861

    Creator: Phunny Phellow, New York

    Description: The Infant Southern Republic in the center portrayed as a child with his toys (a fort, gun and ship): “Boo hoo-hoo! I want Fort Sumter.”

    Mrs. Buchanan on the left as she reaches for “Fort Sumter” on the fireplace mantle: “Now, Baby, you can’t have it. You’ve got two or three forts and a number of ships and arsenals already; and you won’t be allowed to keep even them, for here comes Honest Old Abe to take them all away from you!”

    To the right, Abraham Lincoln enters through a door, carrying a stick. He has a firm and determined expression. On the wall, are drawings of George Washington and Bunker Hill as well as a map of the country. On the floor are some toy soldiers. The cartoonists seem to suggest that a firm parent can bring the difficult child under control with appropriate corporal punishment.

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