The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-09-01

soon after received from him under his own
frank, we make the following extract:
am happy to state that during the past summer
heard from the late President Pierce that whenever
Northern army should be assembled TO march for
INC suelnganoh OF me souih fheg ron!d mare odf,
their own State, and one in which our friends claim
that victory will at least be doubtful.
To what the arch consprator referred by
the "subjugation of the South" - that he
meant no more than an effort to head off and
put down her forcible secession--is plainly
guage is used, for Immediately he goes on to
speak of the glory with which he beholds the
star of his own State in the Uuion constella-
ton, of his readiness to protect its honor, to
tear it from the flag and set it upon the "per-
ilous ridge of battle" and to urge upon the
legislature preparations to meet the coming
contingencies, to create armories, and to pre-
pare for the manufacture of arms, "including
cannon and their carriage. the casting Of shot
and shells, and the preparation of fixed am
munition." This was late in the fall of 1858,
and yet thus early this arch traitor, direct
from New England where he had been petted
and praised, was for putting his State on
,odr footing-a war against his own country
men, his own government, his own flag. 1t
was to precisely such armies as those Of Grant,
referred; armies raised and sent into the
South to subdue the rebellion, to enforce the
Constitution and laws, and to punish traitors
and it was such armies as these that he was
assured in many places at the North, would
have battle to fight at home, before passing
the limits of their own States; battle the
result OF which would be at least doubtful!
Who can doubt that such assurances as are
here alluded TO did much to encourage Davis
and his fellow-conspirators to preciptate the
rebellion? Who can doubt, either that they
expected aid from the North, or that such aid
question, that Northern traitors-inany of the
men with whom JEFF Davis associated conf
dentially at the North-did assure him of aid
to carry out his rebellion, and that he entered
upon his work deliberately with the expecta-
ton of aid from the North--that his 'friends'
al tiIc -Notth tuc iilCuus vi Tue oOulu-
would throw themselves in front of the Union
armies, and that the first blood would be shed
in the free States - the blood of Union SOL
ders shed by the friends of the SOUTH
Now the question becomes important, tcho
gaze those assurances to JEFF. Davis? He
says, until that visit-that tour of observation
and voyage of discovery-he had never heard
such an assurance except from SHE late Pres
ident Pierce" Did not ex-President Pierce,
then, encourage the traitors that, in carrying
out their nefarious scheme of disunion, they
should not only have sympathy but aid from
the North-aid in the form of deadly resist
ance opposed to the government should IL at
tempt to put down their rebellion?
"But," says Davis, II heard in many ptac-
es" Where did he hear such declarations and
from aohomP With whom did he associate
in Portland? Who were his confldents? Who
were On most familiar terms with him? Were
they the Republicans? No one believes it,
Then they were Democrats. 1t was Demo-
Gratis who promised aid. 1t was Democrats
who promised to fight against their govern
ment 1t was Democrats who agreed to fight
their neghbors. And they were no mere insig-
nifcant Democrats, either, for it was not with
such that jeff Davis associated when he was
at the North. 1t was the leaders, the men of
note, those in position, the office-holders and
other representative men of the party We
Belfast. Does any one doubt that he made
such declaration? The same individual,
since the rebellion broke out, went as far as
Fortress Monroe, relying upon Gen. Buffers
friendship, to secure the means of access to
the confederate territory, but he got flea in
his ear, and avoided Washington on his re-
turn, through fear of an arrest.
Says Davis, Of the battle to be fought at
home, by Northern Democrats against govern
ment troops, "our friends claim that the VIC
tory will at least be doubtful Who were
"our friends? To whom did he allude
Does any one suppose he referred to the men
who, two years later voted for Lincoln? The
thonght is preposterous. He referred to the
Northern Democrats; they were the friends
of JEFF. Davis; they were the men who en-
eo"i"Sou mo contemplated treason, and
pledged him their sympathy and aid
Davis himself referred more definitely to
one Of these friends" at later day-in the
Senate-just before he threw up his senatorial
robes aud went South to become the secession
leader Then, when he and others strutted
up aud down the floor of the Senate chamber,
growing and showing their teeth like en-