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The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War News. (search)
, it stretched from the Court house near to Chouteau avenue, and presented an imposing spectacle. Some of the caricatures were droll and humorous, while others were less pointed. One pictured Mr. Lincoln as a political barber, holding a dog between his legs, shearing off his tail, inch by inch, with a pair of scissors. In another the President was represented as a camel kneeling before the French Emperor. Another represented Lincoln as a coachman driving the car of State, with Blair, Bates, Seward and the goddess of liberty as horses approaching a precipice; the people are holding the wheels having cut loose two of the horses; Fremont with an axe cuts the traces of a third; the goddess says: "John, you had better take charge of it." In another Lincoln is painted as a tight rope performer, walking with unsteady steps, having lost his balancing pole, and dropping his carpet sack, $700,000,000 of patronage, army commissions, etc. Strong speeches were made by Emil Pretorius,