{"id":2265,"date":"2023-04-05T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/2265"},"modified":"2020-01-20T20:14:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T01:14:28","slug":"tell-abe-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/tell-abe-lincoln\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 5, 1863, <em>Peoria Morning Mail <\/em>(Illinois)<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Warning <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> The following poem contains wording that is offensive to many in the world of today. However, the article is provided unedited for its historical content and context.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Tell Abe Lincoln that he&#8217;d better end the war,<br \/>\nTell Abe Lincoln what we all came out here for,<br \/>\nTell Abe Lincoln &#8217;twas the Union to restore,<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>As we go marching on.<\/p>\n<p>Tell Abe Lincoln to send our Hero back,<br \/>\nTell Abe Lincoln that we mean our little Mac,<br \/>\nTell Abe Lincoln to put him on the track,<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>As we go, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Tell Abe Lincoln to let the nigger be,<br \/>\nTell Abe Lincoln that we don&#8217;t want him free,<br \/>\nTell Abe Lincoln that for this he did agree,<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>As we go, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Tell Abe Lincoln the Constitution is our guide,<br \/>\nTell Abe Lincoln by the laws he must abide,<br \/>\nTell Abe Lincoln to let his proclamation slide,<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>As we go, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Tell Abe Lincoln with his Conscription Act,<br \/>\nTell Abe Lincoln that this is a fact,<br \/>\nTell Abe Lincoln &#8220;nary&#8221; knapsack on our back,<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>As we go, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tell Abe Lincoln and his wooly headed crew,<br \/>\nTell Abe Lincoln his Suspension Writ won&#8217;t do,<br \/>\nTell Abe Lincoln we are going to put him through,<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>As we go, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Tell Abe Lincoln on Antietam&#8217;s bloody dell,<br \/>\nTell Abe Lincoln there a thousand heroes fell,<br \/>\nTell Abe Lincoln and his gang to go to h___,<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>As we go, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 5, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois) Warning The following poem contains wording that is offensive to many in the world of today. However, the article is provided unedited for its historical content and context. Tell Abe Lincoln that he&#8217;d better end the war, Tell Abe Lincoln what we all came out here for, Tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":84027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/old-newspaper-thumbnail.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}