Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-31
Poor Thing LII HAS NO NAME.-"War-
rington' writes to the Springfield Republican :

POOR Thing LII HAS NO NAME.-"War-
rington" writes to the Springfield Republican :
"We are conservative people, and enemies
to innovation. We move cautiously and slow
ly. All over the United States, from Passa-
maquoddy to Key West; from Galveston to
Frazer river, the opposition to the Democratic
party is known as the Republican party
Perhaps it might as well be called anything
else, for the name means nothing But that
will be the name, and nothing can change, it.
American Republican is too long for popular
use, and there are plenty of other objections to
it. But even that would be better than none
Think of baby going three years without a
name How you would feel if visitor
shoald enter your house and say to your boy,
who is of course fine boy like all other boys !:
What is your name, my little chap? Eth =?
Eth? Can't you tell? A little bashful see.
Afraid of strangers, perhaps! How would
you feel, say, if such a circumstance should
occur, and you should be compelled in order
to justify your youngsters silence to tell your
guest that you hadn't been able yet to make
up your mind what to call himY He runs
alone he says his alph lbet; he drives hoop :
he climbs the fence and tumbles off, and tears
his clothes; he is known to all the boys in the
neighborhood; he is preparing to lick one of
them next year; but you haven't yet provided
him with name. Perhaps you are afraid of
offending one of his uncles if you don't call
him George, and his grandfather if you don't
call him Hezekiah, and his mother if you COM
bine the two and call him George Hezekiah; so
you daily and putter, and the poor boy
grows up till the other boys, who must call
him something, give him horrid nick
name, and send him home every night to bury
his face in his mothers apron, and be sent
weeping to bed. You find out at last that you
had better have called him anything, Ned or
Nebuchadnezzar, Eli or Epaminondas f; Zeno,
Zero, Xerxes, Lycurgus, or anything else, rath
er than have him go without name. What
bother it is, when you are accosted by some
New Yorker or Illinoisan and asked if you
are a Republican, to be obliged to say, 4 be-
long, sir, to the party which is opposed to the
present corrupt national administration and
aggressions of the slave power, and is in favor
of the general policy of the present state ad-
ministration' when is the Republican con-
vention to be held g Don't know; but we
are to have convention OF all the legal voters
of Massachusetts who are opposed to the
present corrupt national administration and
the aggressions of the slave power, and
who are in favor of the general policy of the
present state administration, at Fitchburg on
the GOTH Who do the Republicans of your
state prefer for President? Can't say ; but
the party which is opposed to the present cor
rupt national administration and the aggres-
sions of the slave power and in favor of the
general policy of the present state administra-
ton probably looks with some favor upon Gov.
Banks. why, what do you mean by that
gable? Isn't that the Republican party If
it is, why don't you say sof well, 'spose it
is, but the fact is, our state committee are
little afraid to say what they n: can, and though
the word Republican is in common CONVERSE
tional use, we can't use it in conventions and
committees and official documents just yet
why not? ooh, Mr. So and-so says we
mustn't offend the Americans, and the Daily
Buzzer thinks we'd better use the old formula
for the present well, if your committee
can't give the baby name, the state conven-
ton ought to do it the very first opportunity.
And so | think