Putting Mouth Where Money Is

pirate-alabama-cartoon (Harper’s Weekly, November 15, 1862)

pirate-alabama-cartoon (Harper's Weekly, November 15, 1862)

THE PIRATE “ALABAMA.”

JOHN BULL ( furious.) “Hallo! there, SEMMES; that’s my Property. Fair play, you Rascal! If I’d suspected this, you’d never have got out of Liverpool!” (“Most of the property destroyed by the Pirate SEMMES on board the vessels he has seized was insured in England, and the loss will consequently fall on Englishmen.”—Daily Paper

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