Editorial Cartoon: Lincoln and the Negro Question

I found this editorial cartoon in Albert Shaw's Abraham Lincoln: The Year of His Election (The Review of Reviews Corporation, 1929).

This appears on page 163 and provides a German perspective (presumably translated into English for this book) about the South's attempt to secede from the Union and what motivated it. This drawing and the caption leave no doubt as to what this paper thought motivated the South. 

Here is some information on the cartoonist Wilhelm Scholz, including a link to more details on Kladderadatsch.

Mr. Lincoln sets a style (cartoon)

Following my previous entry mentioning the anniversary of the famous Grace Bedell letter to Abraham Lincoln encouraging him to grow "whiskers," I just found the following cartoon on page 109 of  Abraham Lincoln: The Year of His Election: A Cartoon History by Albert Shaw (1929, The Review of Reviews Corporation).

Little Bo-Peep and Her Foolish Sheep: an Anti-Secession Editorial Cartoon

This anti-secession cartoon is from page 167 of Abraham Lincoln: The Year of His Election by Albert Shaw (The Review of Reviews Corporation, 1929). It is listed under "Strong's Dime Caricatures. - No. 2."
 
The small line above the cartoon title reads "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by T W Strong, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United State for the Southern District of New York."

Immediately under the editorial's title are the lines from the nursery rhyme:  "Little Bo-peep, she lost her sheep, And didn't know where to find 'em; Let 'em alone, and they'll all come home, With their tails hanging down behind 'em."  

The description reads: "Miss Columbia observes her sheep as they leave the pack, one by one, and regrets that her old watchdog, "Hickory" (Andrew Jackson) is no longer alive. Her new watchdog, "Old Buck" (President Buchanan), refuses to bring back the wandering sheep. Off in the distance are the wolves of Europe, waiting their opportunity to pick the bones of the sheep that have strayed.

In the cartoon, Columbia is saying "Sic 'em, Buck! sic 'em! I wish poor old Hickory was alive. He'd bring 'em back in no time." 

The "wolves of Europe" are saying "If we can only get them separated from teh flock, we can pick their bones at our leisure."

It is hard to see on this scanned image, but the dog immediately at Columbia's side has a collar with "Old Buck" on it, while the collar on the one lying down reads "Hickory."

On the sheep, the only labels are "Virginia" with "Kansas" imprinted on the black sheep.  

Here is a link to information from the Library of Congress about this cartoon.