Several of these parodies are given in The Poetry of the Civil War (one, an especially bitter one, is entitled “John Bull, my jo John,”) but it would serve no useful purpose to repeat them, now that the ill feeling has passed away with the causes which led to it.
Mr. James R. Lowell’s dignified protest in the Biglow Papers may, however, be quoted:—
Jonathan to John.
It don’t seem hardly right, John,
When both my hands was full,
To stump me to a fight, John,—
Your cousin, tu, John Bull.
Ole Uncle S. sez he, “I guess
We know it now,” sez he,
“The lion’s paw is all the law,