Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for February 17, 1997
Transcript:
Special presidents day edition! Nate Wright presents.... Abe Lincoln Abe: Daddy! DADDY! father: What is it, Abe?" Abe: A big group of boys! They were teasing me! They were bullying me! father: Why, son?" Abe: I don't know! They were picking on me for no reason at ALL! Father: How many of them were there? Abe: At least four-score and seven. Father: See, there's your problem, you talk funny."
Lincoln once said that if he could “preserve the Union” (force the Southern states back into the USA) without freeing a single slave, he would do so.