New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-06-24
ROOFS AND BUFPOONs.

1 Ihe Richmond EJdmfnsT III ~ knOWn, sdW
fit to announce the nomination Of Lincoln and
johnson in the following chiyalrous terms:
"The Convention OF Black Republicans In Baltimore
have ren0minatcd for President of hor country Abra
ham Lincoln the Illinois rail splitter and for Vice Presi
dent Andrew johnson known In the West a. the Ten
tailor OF the meanest Of that craft whether
they shall be elected not depends upon the Con
federate army altogether.
| :" The people Of the enemy's country have two
Black Republican tickets before them; and the Dem
ocrats are 10 come yet AL these several movements
We are obliged to watch and If possible understand
BY reason Of their possible effects upon the other
wise have earthly interest in the matter; and Il
we were now at peace with that nation. It would DC
they set up TO govern them.
In the same spirit, and in not dissimilaI
terms, our Copperhead neighbor commented OIL
4 the nomination as follows:
THE only merit we can discover In this Baltimore
ticket is the merit Of consseney IL IL all Of piece
tail does not shame the head. the head shame the
tail raiLspiihin1 buGoon and boorish tailor boil
from The bock,ooods both growing up IN uncouh Snor-
once they would afford grotesque subject for sarit
poet, &C., &C.
This language seemed to US at once unseemly
and unwise, and we rebuked it accordingly.
We did not, as is now alleged, assert that
Messrs. Lincoln and johnson were sSsailed
because they had formerly been employed
in two of the humber departments of manual
labor, but we urged that Simon Snyder had been
rendered the idol Of Pennsylvania by just such
wretched filings, and that
"The facts that Abraham Lincoln rose from rail.
splitting to the Presidency. and that Andrew Johnson
iliterate and penniless nobody. one OF the poor
white trash generally kept under in the South,
fought his way up through the Legislature House and
oyernorshp OF his adopted State to the T. s. Senate
eloquent tributes alike TO the character Of our tasifu-
tions and the persona! porfh Of these men,"
Hereupon, we find ourselves accused by our
Copperhead neighbor of JfalsehOod, though We
cannot discover wherein. We quoted fully and
fairly the language to which we demurred, and
briefly indicated wherein We deemed it unfit
But we will let the sssaiant amend his plea to
meet the exigencics Of the case. lie now says:
THE whole ground of our attack was that these
nominees not statesmen that they had risen 10
eminence from early poverty which 30 far was credita
BILE to their energy but that unlike many another poor
man. who In the short annals OF this country has risen
from obscurty TO attain the highest offices In the gin OF
free people they had not enlarged their minds had
not strengthened their understandings, but remained
to-day what they were In the beginEing-the ono buf
f00n and the other bo0r."
Let US see how this statement accords with
recorded facts, and with the genius Of American
institutions
Abraham Lincoln, born fifty five years ago Of
very poor parents in slsveholding Kentucky,
reared in log cabin In the wilderness, which
then all but covered southern Indiana. losing
bis mother ct ten years Of age, and receiving
very little education in the rude and scanty
log schoolhouses Of bis boyhood's days, Joined
volunteer militia company In tho BLACK Hawk
war Of 1884. and was (st 20 years of sgs)
elected its captain. He soon Sfterward studied
surveying. and became proficient. and useful
therein. and 1t q Years Of sgs wM chosen ts]