Both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis Are Angered By The British

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Uncolored Print NEUTRALITY, places John Bull between Lincoln and Davis (both dressed as women). Mrs. North. "How about the Alabama, you wicked old man?" Mrs. South. " Where's my Rams? Take back your precious Consuls - there!!! The lower caption "Chief Baron Pollock's ruling in the Alexandra case created much discussion. The escape of the Alabama, and the seizure of the Rams constructed for the Confederate Government at Birkenhead, were severally made occasion of displeasure by the North and the South -November 1863.The two Laird Rams, armored warships intended for the Confederate Navy, were constructed at the Birkenhead shipyard in England from 1862 to 1865. Designed to break the Union blockade and threaten Union naval power, they were seized, October 8th 1863, and subsequently purchased by the British Royal Navy. The British government also allowed the Alabama to escape prior to capturing her.\The neutrality of England pleased neither the North nor the South. Just as the failure to detain the " Alabama " had angered the Federals, so the seizure of the rams in construction at Birkenhead for the Confederates had enraged the Southerners, John Bull's position between the cross-fires of his clamorous contenders in America, was neither an easy nor a comfortable one.

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