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 t submit to the War! You will beg in the streets or rot in the alms house! Oh! poor sailors! Oh! poor blue jackets!" A reply from one of the sailors in the car- toon was: "We'll stick to our quarters, boys, like true hearted sailors, and may the lubber be slushed home to the gizzard, and scrap'd with a shark's tooth, who would mutiny 'gainst com- mander and desert ship 'cause a hard gale and a tough passage brings him to short allowance. Three cheers for Yankee doodle."

Some of the papers which Charles put in the Tory class and made to ape The Boston Gazette were The New-York Gazette, The Charleston Courier, The Washington Federalist, The Nor- folk Ledger, The New York Evening Post, The Boston Reporter, etc. His cartoon, though crudely drawn, presented in its dia- logue the editorial attitude of the two sections into which the American press was divided on account of the war.

PRESS ON HARTFORD CONVENTION

Republican papers made no end of fun of the Commissioners appointed at the Hartford Convention to go to Washington for the purpose of protesting against the distribution of the Fed- eral taxes and of arranging for better protection of the seaports on the Atlantic Coast. The Commissioners, reaching Wash-