The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-07-16
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Regcnade Northerners.

1t is moi s.range that Southern men, educat-
ed in the doctrine of State rights, and welded
to tae system of African slavery, should adhere
10 their leaders, and uphold the cause Of the
South against the Union. 1t is a holy cause
in the opinion OF the mass of that deluded peo-
ple-deceived, as they have been, by the in
famous falsehoods of Southern demagoues.
and the more infamous Misrepresentation of
Northern pro-slavery sympathizers. We may
pardon mistaken Southern secessonst for
his seli-deception; but for an apostate North
erner, who has broken away from his earliest
and best impulses, to besmear himselfwith the
slime OF slaye-trading principles, and secession
apologies, one can have only mingled feeling
of indignation and adherence.
Such, certainly, must be the feeling in the
minds of Northern men when reading the pro-
ceedings of a recent political meeting in the
city of New York. 1t was called by ultra
conservative politicians, who are opposed 10
all measures Of emancipation, or confiscaiion
OF rebel pToperty,-and WHO would gladly end
this war by compromise that would secure TO
the rebels new pledges of protection for their
slave system, and replace the secession leaders
in their old positions in our national councils
1t was presided over, and addressed by men
who have been defenders Of municipal corrup-
ton in New York, and apologists for the rebels
in Congress; who value slavery higher than the
constitution, and attempt to caiole the Presi-
dent by pretended support; and who, under
the guise of love for the Union and the Con-
stitution, would gladly place both beneath the
foot of the slave power.
AT such meeting, conditional Union man
of Kentucky could consistently talk of up
holding the Union if slavery were protected;
u corrupt New York politician could appropri-
ately advocate the forcible displacement of
Congress by military despotism; but it re-
manned for recreant son of New England to
enter upon studied viIifcation of his native
section, and, with the venom of an apostate,
and the brutal eagerness of zealot, to malign
the social, political, and religious institutions
Inf his fathers.
Born and educated in New England, for
years, as an editor, the earnest advocate of an
ti-slavery principles, and an uncompromising
free soier in Congress, the editor of the New
York Express has turned his back upon all his
better political history, and, with indecent
haste and ready trickery, is striving to oblit-
crate the record of better days and nober sem
timents, by treachery, servility and base deser-
tion.
IT is one of the misfortunes of New England
that, with all her record of noble men and no.
BILE deeds, she has given birth to some who
have left the path of the eagle for the trail of
the vulture-exchanging the pure air of their
mountain home for the corrupt atmosphere of
southern plantations, and bariering the manly
independence of ireemen for the .'thrift that
follows fawning." These men are found both
North and South,-with political parties, seek
ing to distract the counsels and defeat the eff
forts of patriotic people in this struggle for
national existence,-with the press, excusng
the southern traitors, and supporting the Union
cause only from compulsion and through fear
of popular indignation. In this class of ulcers
on the body polite the Express stands prom-
nent, and this shameless harangue of its leading
editor will cause the cheek of New Englanders
to tingle with shame at the thought that so
base defamer of loyal people can claim to
have had his birth among the hills of the free
North. IoN.