THE Recorder has no sympathy with the spirit of disrespect for rulers, so prevalent in the United States. It is enough to make the blood of any true citizen boil, to read the irreverent and contemptuous language of the average newspaper, applied to the President of this great nation. The horrid and malicious representations in cartoons of our chief magistrate are too brutal and low to be tolerated. Nothing but evil can come from them. They are especially adapted to arouse the most brutal passions of low-lived men. They breathe the very spirit of anarchy, and tend to engender the hatred that sharpens the assassin's dagger. They put a premium upon the overt act of murder, which is seen in its incipient stages in the venom of hearts that can produce such expressions of feelings as are brought out in these infamous cartoons. The only wonder is that some crank, inspired by these, has not actually carried out the final act which such venomous pictures suggest. They would be appropriate only for a demon, and yet they represent somebody's feeling toward our President!
America might profit from some good lessons taught by other nations, in the line of loyal respect for the one who more than any other stands for the nation itself. In England it is "Her Royal Highness, the Queen," or "His Royal Highness, the King;" but in America it is "Buck and Breck," "Old Abe," "Grover," and "Teddy," with the coarsest and most disgusting caricature that can be invented! It is too bad!—Sabbath Recorder.