New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-11-16
ABRAHAM,O MHN.

caSo) that ne voted Tor fre5ioens
president incumbent and President
the Republican reader aware that
he is a SORT, q slave. Q ohattel. thrall, q sub.
ject, bOndman Of the aforesaid mighty
monarch, king, autocrat, emperor. tyrant, des'
not, TO wit, Abraham I.ncOln' Thus says The
Richmond Dispa,eh of the 9th inst, which news
paper, considering that 1t did pretend most
heartily TO desire Mr.. Lincolns reelection, seems
to have been put into a most acrid humor 10y the
profonnd respect which we have shown for its
preferences. According to this Dispatch, TWEEN
ty millions Of human beings have sold them.
selves, soul, spirit, body and breeches to A. L.,
and should be- branded with these letters.
Credit this paper, and we have clearly got our.
selves into q most dabolical scrape. We have
made formal surrender of our Liberties" to
ga low bufioon"-a surrender not merely OF ouI
"Iberties," but Of our "liyes"-not merely ol
our'l.livesn but of our "persons"-not merely
Of our "person;;" but of our "purses'-"tc
Lsye and to hold the same for at least ioul
vear." TO him the said Abraucs.s. and his assigns
And this farce" says The Dispaicss win ineA
pressible disgust, sis called an electlc2'" w
are "slayes." We are " fit for the situation
We are ga pronigate and degenerate race.
We have been mastered heretofore by our " base
PASSIONS" Now We must prepare for "material
bondage"
Alas! poor reader what situation you are
in! We suppose that with painful faulty you
still call yourself a man, while you are nothing
but piece Of goods. You think that your wife
is your own. that your children are your own,
that your house is your own, that your ships
and stocks are your own, whereas, "a well
as yourself, they all belong to that Jack Pud-
ding" as The Dispatch calls him, Abraham LIN
coin. When you went to tho polls las. Tues
day, Won did not feel the Federal bayOnets prod
ding you. but they were at work, and, proud
freeman os you thought yourself, you were only
one of several millions Of dumb, driven cattle.
You think you know your own mind, but poor
devil! you have no mind to know. You think
you have VIII OF your own, whereas you
merely acted as YOU were told 10 act--yOu poor,
blind, deaf, dumb instrument!-you duh and
subseryient aud cringing and crouching tool
YOU eater of dirt and Ticker Of spittlc!-tou
coward, you fool, you wretch, you msn.Shapcd
and brute-brained machine, TT for nothing but
to grind in the mill Of your master and to DO
muzzlod when you tread out Lis corn! Victim
of dreadful delusion sport Of o horrible hal
lucinationl butt OF hideous destiny pauper
and parasite, fawner and Tool. crayen-hearted
and addle-headed the sham citizen OF sham
democracy! What have you 10 DO but lick the
feet of your proprietor
How layo we been mistaken! We have
schools and no knowledge churches and NO re-
ligion. wealth ard no refinement, the forms Of
freedom without the fact. The Presidents chair
Is throne, at the fee; OF which We are all kneel-
ing; the army o horde Of mercoualies paid to
keep us in order, and paid with our own money;
Congress an irresponsible oiigsrchy, created By
our own votes to trGmple aud torture rs. We
are the cunning architects of our own subsection
and the arti1cers of our own chains. We arc
all saddled and bfidlcd for another four years
riding, and, strange TO say, we End the whip
delightful and the spur an agreeable titillatOr!
We suppose that il is necessary for the Rcbel
newspapers To say abusive things of tho loyal
population Of the country, but the wonder IS
that they do not say them more sensibly and
sharply. and consistently. They have suddenly
y.fs D. n ~
o hundred years ago, they we're charging upon
IA /, thoroughly snsrchicsl condition OF society.
We We're powerIe5s to resis, she pressure Of
mobs; the rich ulGn was At the mercy Of the
pauper classes; socialism predominated in our
pol.,c-, and there Was no ,grarian folly tor
which we were not ripe aud roiten-ripe. Pre'l-
ors. municipal councls--ali were TOO weak 10
restrain the rciniess passions OF our Masses and
every landowner trembling nightly at the
thought OF instruction and massacre which
might be ploeing in his qu,rter-horses, pre-
iicted that the Gsni Of revolution, born and
bred IN Boston, would ere many months carry
through city and through country an epidemic
Of fire, famine, and slaughter. II our Presiden-
'iol election had been marked BY the violence
which Rebel writers and speakers anticipated,
what q triumphant howl of dension would have
reached our ears The election is over. II has
been conducted peaceably and according to oil
he forms Of law. There have been no riots. no
Dnrning4. no murders-there hes been an ex.
pici. and deliberate aud decided expression
If popular opinion, and because this honor.
lble moderation has been exhibited, and our out
voted sympathizers with Rciellion have sue