The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-06-22
On Calling Things by Their
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- From the World, June 20.

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A respect for the high Office which Mr.,
Lincoln, unwotthily fills restrained us, up
to the time Of his denomination, frsm going
up to the full bounds Of ordinary parlis.
mentary opposition. We have denounced
his wrong deeds, but we have had very little
to say Of the wrong doer.
1t would have been indecorous to name
Mr.. Lincoln the buffoon that he is, II he
had been the chief magistrate. l Bus the
truth must be told when he is q chief ma
gistrate seeking reelection by the sufnges
Of free people whose need Of statesman
ship is 30 great, whose national calamities
are so overwhelming zrs alg5k SIX
A leading member of one of the great re.
ligious organizations which have recently
been passing resolutions and sending
deputationS to the White House, and who
was intrusted with the speech-making part
of the business, publicly describes the de-
meanor and language of Mr. Lincoln on this
occasion as that Of ga buffoon and gawk-
disgracefully unfit for the high office" to
which he again aspires. He says that be
departed from the East room with . sick
ensuing sense oi the hopelessness OF our
cause which has never left him since.
Here is q reverend divine compelled by
stricl religious sense Of duty to pronouncs
and proclaim this to be the character of the
Baltimore candidate. Here, again, 10 . Re-
publican senator, honored by the Empire
State, and held in high esteem by the res
lgious denomination Of which he is mem
per, reported to have left the Presidents
presence because his self.respsct would not
permit him to stay and listen to the language
which he employed. ..,
And the nice and squeamish tastes Of the
Republican journals revolt, do they, against
the plain truth telling which they find In
this journal concerning the bufoon who
wants to be our next President? Pah! We
tell these poor sycophants and tide walters
that the American people, whose money is
going by the hundred million, and whose
lives are going BY the hundred thousand,
are in no mood to re-elect Q man to the
highest Office at this most critical hour whose
daily language is too indecent for senator
to hear with Selfrespect, whose manners
minister of the Gospel. at the head Of . dep
utaton of ne hundred aud 6fty clergymen,
pronounces those Of "a bnffoon and gawk,"
and who, riding over the field of Antietam,
when thirty thousand OF his fellow .citizeEs
were vet wa-m in thesr freshly made graves
could slap Marshal Lamon on the knee and
call for the negro song Of "Picayune But
ler."
This war is a serious business to men
whose sons have bitten the dust, whose
brothers are under the Virginia hill sides
it is very serious business to women
whose children have come home to them
manned for life, or whose husbands pine in
the hospitals or have perished in the swamPs
of Virginia. They cannot watch the vary
ing tide Of battle which for them may mean
ioy or desolation, and be remided Of .
smutty Joke they cannot tread on fresh
graves and grin and roar over ribald mig
ger song. Nor do we believe the Ameri.
can people want to re-elect to tho presiden'
cy the man who can. The life and the
treasure which they spill 10 the proof Of
their sublime courage and faith that this
Union, the home Of our fathers, will stand
for us, for our children, and our childrens
children. Yet it has been set on fire by
the torch Of treason and the abolition
abettors Of traitors, their confessed con-
federates, who fan the flames Of treason,
are shocked, nice souls when he is called
a fiddler who fddles in the midst Of this
conhagration, when no is called buffoon
who tramples the holy dust Of our gallant
dead to the tune Of "Picayune Butler"