September 1, 1861 — Lincoln, the Woman-Tyrant

Nashville Union and American, Nashville, TN

The world has never produced a man who is destined to receive the execrations of mankind and to merit the lash of the satirist, in a larger measure than ABRAHAM LINCOLN, first the low baffoon, and next the bloody tyrant. This man is, like all tyrants, weak of will and of a miserably contracted intellect. This weakness of resolution makes him the tool of the bolder and bloodier men that surround him. Having no clear views of statesmanship, and having devoted his mind and soul to dogma, he has surrendered himself as the read, victim of cruel counsellors, and of the vindictive party leaders who control his conduct. Day by day he issues some new decree by which constitutional liberty is crushed out and the way prepared for absolute despotism.

The crowning act of his infamy is the arrest and imprisonment of women, charged with treason. HAYNAU, the woman-whipper, when he visited London, was mobbed by me butchers. LINCOLN’s career will be rounded off with some similar act of contempt, should he escape the just punishment of his crimes. Having descended to the mean cruelty of persecuting women, he can expect nothing but the contempt of mankind and the scorn of the sex to which his mother belongs. The present generation is prolific of moral monsters. It has produced a HAYNAU and a LINCOLN.

Haynau was an Austrian general who brutally suppressed insurrections in Hungary and Italy. He was said to have ordered women whipped who were suspected of sympathizing with the insurgents. In London in 1850, he was attacked by some draymen from the Barclay & Perkins brewery who threw mud and dung at him and chased him down the Borough High Street, shouting “Down with the Austrian butcher!”.

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