, 1864-05-13


Mcclellan will marshal the contrasted for
ces in the next Presidential canvass. New
circumstances may arise to change this like
lihood; but we do not believe that, under
any state of things, the liberal masses will
consent to concentrate Seward Blair, and
Bates into perpetual empire under the mask
of conservative, amnesty-loying Abraham
Lincoln. We have now been three years in
war. A mighty people, who offered them.
selves against the rebels almost to man,
have under his lead, been constantly bafed
in their arms We find ourselves in worse
condition, relatively, than at the ouset of
the war while the enemy are seasoned and
Injured for sacrifices, which cannot be as Sc
rious for three years to come, as past. An
Office holder, or a person seeking place, may
be persuaded that General Lincoln and his
conservative staff are adequate to conduct
our dissatisfied population against this i'm
proved enemy more successfully than here
tofore; but no man unbiased by personal
interests or aims would make them their
ilrst choice for that terrible Responsibility.
To our view, the future is more threatening
than at any previous period of the rebellion
duO VIC oiuCCIClJ D6liSN6 budG SuOUIU AOId-
ham Lincoln and his familiars be returned
upon the nation, one year more of such con
servative bedevilment and amnesty condon-
ings as the last. would induce the despair
ing North to become hopeless of further sac
rifees, and perhaps retire from the struggle.
We are in the crisis of our uesoi.., as a Re
public, and we need fixed prinei0les and
firm hand to guide us safely .AIOush. First
of all to have the war pressed with integrity
and vigor, it is all important that Abraham
Lincoln and his conservative staff should be
informed that they must end their public
record on the Forthcoming fourth of
March.-N z. Spirit Of the Times
Upon which the Dalles Mountaineer wax
es exceedingly wroth with vrtuous indigna-
tion, and gets off the following, by way Of
comment
ut is possible that we are prejudiced, but
in our judgment the Administration would
be more than justified in arresting the un-
principled scrbbler who has been singled
out to do the dirty work of writing down
President Lincoln Six months at Fort La
fayette, engaged in packing sand, would pos
sibly lead the fellow to think better of the
powers that be-
Now, it is barely possible that we, also,
are prejudiced, but in our judgment, had
the Administration or General Lincoln ap-
piled the Nountaineers bastile system up
on the editor of that paper, for an irregular
use of the Presidents name but little more
than one year ago, that virtuous editor
would at this time be packing sand
at Fort Lafayette, instead of being priv
ileged, as he now is, to write praises in IA
vor of Abraham and the "powers that be-"
Our recollection is, that the Mountaineer
contained some very bitter articles against
Father-we mean Uncle Abraham, at one
time; much harsher than anything it quotes
from the Times. Was the editor then, in
denouncing the @powers that be-" an "un-
principled scribbler," or must we infer that
he scribbled then from high sense of duty
and denounced General Lincoln from in
tensely patriotic motives The editor
should be careful about advocating the i'm
mureing of persons in bastiles for the sim
pie expression Of opinions, for the reason,
if he can discover no other, that with his
disposition to regeneration, he may find
himself again, one of these days, scribbling
about Mr.. Lincoln as an "imbecile" and
saying worse things about himo In that
not improbable event, what splendid ex-
cuse the General-in-Chief would have for
packing the Mountaineer man with bag
of sand; and wouldn't the editors enemies
be very apt to say, 'sinch him tight, he de-
serves it?" @ r. -
But what shall we say of the Times, the
Chase, Fremont organ, for using the ex-
pressions, conservative, amnesty loving
Abraham Lincoln" i" "General Lincoln and
his conservative staff" with the perpetual
empire" thrown in AS to the titles given
the President, no liberal-minded person will
object or assume that people should be CO.
creed to call the Executive by any particular
name. A person certainly has the right
to speak of the President, as "His Excel
lency, the President" and the right to des-
ignate him by that title gives the. right to
call him Donkey, or to apply any other
title, odious or the reverse. To choose his
own language is the right of every freeman,
and the selection Of words or phrases to ap-
ply to any thing or person to be described
is but a matter of taste. The fitness or un-
fitness of language applied to any subject
can be passed upon and criticised without re-
straint by any and all persons residing
within our republic. To abridge the right
of free speech would be an act of tyranny, to
which people, accustomed to that liberty,
would never tamely submit. The
Times intimation that "amnesty-loving
Abraham Lincoln and his staff are attached
to conservative views, is an idea which at