The Portland daily press., 1862-10-31
accomplish the restoration and supremacy of
the constitution and the laws
REPUBLICANS NOT TRAITORS.

am far from supposing that the Republican
! party was faultess in its course of action to-
ward their felow-ctizens in the rebelous
states, and in all the slaveholding states. Nor
am disposed to palliate, much less to Justify,
their errors. But this may be said of that
| party: However unjust and irritating its Ian
| guage toward us as Shareholders: however
unjust any measures introduced into our ma
tlonal legislature, whether those measures did
or did not become laws, no body of the men,
bers OF that party, nor any individual member
thereof, has committed any ouert act of trea-
| son.
WHO ARE THE TRAITORS?
Can so much be said of the men of your par
| ty and mine? Do we not blush and hang our
heads in very shame when we utter the names
| of the men who inaugurated this rebellion t?
Who are Jefferson Davis, Toombs. Floyd Ste
| phens. Breckenridge, Rhett, Trescott, Wig
fall, of the rebel states, and Sterling Price,
jackson, Reynolds and Polk, of Missouri !?
| All, all democrats? And il is humiating to
have 10 confess, as truth requires we should,
that the democratic party in the rebel states
was the prominent and leading rebel party at
the outset of our disturbances. Nor am | at
all satisfied that, in the free states, even at this
day, all the members of the democratic party
are free from the virus and taint of treason
One senator-a democrat-has been expelled
from his seat in the national Congress IL think
justly expelled) for his completely with rebels.
And there are those in the loyal states who
occupy prominent positions as democrats
public men, even candidates for Congress
whose loyalty to the government no man can
trust.
WHO APPROVE THE DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT
IN THE BORDER STATES.
Mr.. Monaghan assures Mr.. Seymour that the
Union men of Missouri do not take pleasure
in witnessing the efforts to revive and contin-
ne democratic opposition to the administration
in the northern states, and says:
But there is party with us who desire its
continuance. Shall l tell you who are the men
who compose this party in my state? They
are the rebels and the sympathizers with the
rebellion. An hundred, nay, a thousand times
have been assured by these sympathizers, y
since our troubles began, that the democracv y
OF the free states would speak in thunder tones
oppostiontot the national government making
war against the institutors and prosecutors OF
the rebellion. That party said they, and they
still say, will overwhelm the " abolitionistsn of
the free states at the ballot box. When that
Is done the federal armies will be withdrawn
from the seeded states, and their indepen-
dence acknowledged when Missouri will fol-
low their fortunes. They laughed to scorn the
calling out by the President of 10000 men
Immediately after the assault upon Sumter and
when the capital of the nation was menaced
by rebels. They asserted that this meager
and undisciplbled army would be dispersed
and annihilated at the first onset made upon
them by troops disciplined for purposes of re-
bellion; that the federal Capital would fall in
to the hands OF the Confederates, and Jeffer-
son Davis would there take his seat as the
President of the fifteen slave states.
Even after the Congress had voted 100000
men and s50o,000,00o to suppress the rebellion.
our rebel sympathizers treated this piece ofleg-
islation as mockery and with derision. They
declared the money could not be raised. .and, de-
pending upon the opposition to the war on the
part of the democratic party, they affirmed the
money never could be secured. But when the
men aud the means were had almost without
exertion, and without sacrifice, these sympa-
thizers, for time at least, were utterly disnay-
ed. They were astonnded that such men as
Mcclellan, Halleck, Grant. McCiernard, Burn
side, Butler and scores OF Others scarcely less
renowned, and all OF them lifelong democrats,
should be found leading their conpatriots TO
the field, and that more than 100000 brave
men should, like an avalanche, rush to arms
at the call OF their government.
EFFECT OF NORTHERN UNION UPON MISSOURI
REBELLION.
The rebels in Missouri, says Mr. Monaghan,
revived from the effect produced by the facts
above referred to, under the expectation that
the elections in the great States of New York,
Pennsylvania, and Ohio, last year, would show
powerful anti-war or democratic party, but
the result Of those elections fell with crushing
weight on the rebel sympathizers in Missouri
and other border States.
From the first day the rssult of the cleo
tions in The. free States became knorn in Ms
souri,, the spirit of the rebellion pds broken
in our midst. The rebel army fell back to-
wards our southern border, dismayed and de-
moralized-partly, indeed, because it was met
by an overpowering loyal force. But it is
egregious folly to deny that fear and conster-
nation lcere infused into their ranks by the
undninaity displayed in the elections in the
northern states.
sEYMoUR's INCONSISTENCY.
Mr.. Seymour, having made certain charges
against the administration, and seen fit to ar
raign our national rulers upon what he was
pleased to call ian awful Indictment" and hav-
ing supported his charges only by irresponsi-
BILE newspaper quotations, Mr.. Monaghan says /:
You, believe, are a distinguished lawyer.
You are, unquestonbly, a man OF distinguished
intelligence. | put the question to you, then ::
Would you, as judge or juror, consign the most
degraded of your fellow-creatures to the walls
of a prison for four-and-twenty hours, upon
such testimony? l am sure you would not
And yet, upon this tiimsy testimony, or rather
upon this utter want of testimony, YOU pro-
coed to arraign, try and condemn, as GRIM
inal guilty of an ''awful' crime, no less per-
sonage than the Chief Magistrate of the ma
ton, a man whose integrity of purpose, what
ever may be the errors of his head, no one
should question, which you have not yourself
questioned aflirmatiyely; man with whom
you profess to sympatize "in his embarrass-
ments." Yet, at the same time, you soemnv
"protest," in behalf of our country's honor
and dignity, against the insubordination and
disrespecJM language of leading Republican
journals towards the President OF these United
States" Is it not monstrous that, with one
breath, you should solemnly protest against
the use OF "disrespectful language" toward
high public functionary, by partisan editors,
whilst, almost in the same breath, you charge
the same high official to have been guilty of
crimes which you denounce as "awful" in
character and consequence?
What but partisan prejudice can lead to
such painful contradictions as these? Pardon
Inc if | say this is not in keeping with the
character of patriotic statesman. 1t is rath-
er in accordance with the conduct of a parti-
san politician. Yet these contradictions these
unfounded ordinations, and the mutual ami
mosities which necessarily flow from them,
are the certain result of party organization in
times like ours. That they naturally beget
dlstrust OF our rulers, even in the minds OF
those whose hearts are truly loyal, no man
can doubt. Can IL be doubted t6ot tLe ,ebeJs