<P> I. Windslow Ayer's 1865 polemic alleges, "Judge Morris of the Circuit Court of Illinois at an August meeting of Order of the Sons of Liberty said: "Thousands of our best men were prisoners in Camp Douglas, and if once at liberty would' send abolitionists to hell in a hand basket ."' </P> <P> The phrase also appeared in the title of several published works and other media: </P> <Ul> <Li> "To Hell in a Handbasket" is the name of humorist H. Allen Smith's 1962 autobiography . </Li> <Li> Hell in a Handbasket was the title of a 1988 Star Trek comic book . </Li> <Li> Hell in a Handbasket is the title of a 2006 book (ISBN 1585424587) by American cartoonist Tom Tomorrow, who authors the cartoon strip This Modern World . </Li> <Li> "Hell in a handbasket" was the name of an undescribed con requiring a trained cat referenced in the 2004 film, Ocean's Twelve . </Li> <Li> Hell in a Handbasket is a song from Voltaire's Ooky Spooky album . </Li> <Li> Hell in a Handbasket is the title of a 2011 Meat Loaf album </Li> <Li> A number of fictional characters have used a name that puns on the phrase, including: <Ul> <Li> Helena Handbasket is the name of a character in the TV show Friends . It is the stage name for Chandler's crossdressing dad . </Li> <Li> Helena Handbasket is also a fictional nymph in the 2011 video game Rayman Origins . </Li> <Li> Helena Handbasket is also the pseudonym of the author of Twilight's Last Gleaming: The Decline and Fall of the United States . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> 2015 video game Fallout 4 in the prequel it includes a "Vault Tec Representative" (Vault Tec is a fictional company in the Fallout franchise) and refers to the phrase "Heck in a handbasket" </Li> </Ul> <Li> "To Hell in a Handbasket" is the name of humorist H. Allen Smith's 1962 autobiography . </Li>

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