The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1861-05-24
Aid and Comfort to thoEnemy.

The Saco Democrat Of this week affords
aid and comfort to the enemies OF the coun-
try. It's trimming with the rankest trea'
son, couched in languages Of malignant bit.
terness. In the four or more columns which
disgrace its editorial page, there is scarcely
paragraph in which there is not both false
hood and treason combined. Its leading ar
ticle, headed Three months Of Republican
ism," is compound Of aagitious ialsehoOds
and unblushing reasonable utteranccs. Ii
would DO difficult to tell whether falsehood
or treason prelominates in its composition.
Falsehood, coming from the lshmael pen oil
one who, for the past seven or eight years,
has bOen monthly, and almost weekly, en-
gagged in quarreling with political friends as
well as political enemies. and whose pen,
when dircc,edagainst his own political friends,
has been nerycd TO uncommon bitterness by
the remembrance Of party sights and disaP-
poinments in the pursuit Of the honors and
emoluments of Office, may be passed by with
out public remark, but treason, such as is con-
tanned in the following extract, deserves, and
will receive a full measure of public repro
baton. Hear the language of treason:
"with this assurance OF safety, the Presi-
dents partiIans Of the Northern States have
for ten days past been necessarily occupied In
discussing the propriety OF. and the best meth
oil OF marching the army, now nj the Pres-
dent command, into the seeded States, (which
now comprise nearly all the Slayeholding States)
and putting their people under the military
rule of such troops as the other States Of the
Uaion farRish aim for that purpose"
JEFF. Davis and his nest of confederate
traitors, the thieves and plundercrs who act
for him and them, are daily using such Ian
guasc. Tho Democrat furnished no brains
to originate this idea Of the Presidents put
ting tho people Of the seeded States "uHder
The military rule Of such troops as The other
States ofihc Ulioa furnish him for that Pnr-
poce." jeff Davis u,ters the treason in his
message, it is caught up by the traitor Gov
ernors of Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, and
passing ,rOm them and their confederate or
cans, finds its,lf at last in the columns of
their sympathisins organ in this community,
The rebels are concentrating troops in Nir-
GINA, have ssizod with military force arse
nails and navy yards belonging to tho Gov
ernment, and arc lcvyins war against the
United States. and when the President, whose
sworn duty 1t Is to execute the laws, who
has admonished the rebels to dispersc and
60 tn their homes, takes stops to maintain
the laws. and calls for tho men to do 81, Jeh.
Davis and his confederate crew at the SOUTH
the rebels who have been for more than Tour
months carrying on war against their Govern
ment, cry out that tho President is putting
"their people under the military rule OF such
troops as the other States Of the onion fur
nish him for that purpose" and Northern
men are found base enough to echo their
trcasonablc utteranccs. II is Tor no purpose
Of putting the people OF the Slayeholding
States "undcr military rule Of such troops
as the other States furnish" that the Presi-
dent is preparing to maintain the integrity
of the Union. Let the rebels disPerse, aban'
don their military operations, and submit like
good citizens to the execution Of the laws,
and there would be no war, no shedding oil
blood, and the writer Of the REASONABLE ar
ticle in the Democrat knows there would be
peace at once. Then again, II is the troops
OF the Union, called out in the Legitimate
way, and none other, who are sndeavoring
70 aid in the execution Of the laws, who are
under the command Of the President. Gen.
eral Butler himself. Democrat, un-
derstood this when, in language as skillful
as Il was truthful. informed Gov. Hicks that
he was wrong in saying that Northern troops
had passed over the soil Of Maryland, that
the fact was the federal troops were attacked
when passing over the soil Of the United
States on their way to the defence OF the
Capital. The distinction which JEFF. Davis
and his sympathisers make, arises from dis
loyal and rebel hearts. It is only men who
sham patriotism, who will talk as docs the
writer in the Democrat.
Then, again, the Democrat, persisting in
its purpose Of doing all il can to weaken the
power Of the Government, in its desire to
afford AID and comfort to the enemy, talks
about the Presidents violations Of the Con-
stitution, he says "he has, by q bold leap
over the plain provisions Of the Constitution,
raised STANDING ARMY on his own unauthOr-
ised call. and for the purpose of SnejTgatiHg
all the States South Of the Potomac" When
and where has the President announced that
it was for the purpose of sl9iTgati"g any
State, that he was raising n standing army
In no public document has any such pur'
pose been stated No act Of his or his adj
viscrs imply this. In obedience to tho re-
quirements Of his oath he is endcayoring "to
take care that the laws DO faithfully execu-
ted" nothing more; and this the astute
writer OF the article in the Democrat, has
discovered to be Unconstitutional, and is be-
ing done to "s1gEgais the SOUTH Gen.
jackson, in his celebrated message on multi
fcation. made 10Th of January, 1888, reply
ing TO these visionary notions of secession Of
John G. Calhoun, sOlemnly proclaimed, 'thai
the Constellation and la'rs are supreme and the
Union indissoinbls.
The Democra, published away down east,
surprising the wisdom Of Jackson has dis
covered :ha. the theory Of jackson is fall
lacy. and that all attempts to make the
Constitution and the laws supreme and the