The Portland daily press., 1863-07-30
UNION NOMINATION.
FOR GOVERNOR,
SAMUEL CONY
The Argus would succumb to the Rebels.
MONDAYS Argus had the following:

The Argus would succumb to the Rebels.
Mondays Argus had the following:
If the rumors that the Administration is about 20
change its policy and invite the rebel states oacS
into the Union with all their rights dignity anu
equality $ Il % With ps unsned graft
fcation by eight-tenths of all the people u 'Ae
loyal States.
The .srumorss referred to were those OF the
New York Herald, to the effect that the Pres
ident was about to join the ranks of Vailan-
digham and Wood, and in effect ask the rebels
to consent to become the acknowledged mas
ters and rulers Of the republic; and such a
course would suit the Argus, and fill 1t with
uufeigned qualification.
Before eighths-tenths Of our people are pre-
pared to participate in our neighbors un-
feigned qualification, as we understand their
feelings, they would like for information on
few practical points. Perhaps the Argus will
condescend to enlighten them by answering
the following questions:
1. To make peace and restore the union
would you consent TO blot the 35th star from
our national flag, and strangle our young sis
ter state of Western Virginia, which has been
baptized in blood, and remand the gallant
people Of that section OF the "Old Dominion
to the rule of those who have been more than
two years in rebellion? Would you annul the
free constitution adopted by that loyal new
state, and again overrun the fertile fields be-
yond the Alleghanies with the curse Of negro
slavery?
Q. Would you for peace and restoration
consent to remand to slavery the scores OF
thousands Of colored people who for year or
m ore have been under the protection of the
government, and have been making rapid
progress in all the industrial arts and in the
elements OF a practical education9
8. Would you send back to slavery to be
whipped, scourged and beaten perhaps to
death-the thousands of brave men who in the
Southwest, in the Carolinas and in other slave
states have enlisted in defense Of our flag,
and have fought with daring and GOODNESS
worthy of veterans?
4. Would you compel those brave fellows
who, at Port Hudson, barred their breasts to
rebel batteries, and stood in the breach oil
death when more experienced soldiers might
have been excused for quailing, again to be-
come the slaves of those white demons who
have so often proved their fitness to associate
with fends?
5. Would you consent to restore JET Davis,
Floyd, Cobb, Benjamin and other traitors,
who either in the Cabinet or in the Senate,
while under a solemn oath to uphold the Con-
stitution were plotting to destroy 1t, to their
former status, and allow them again to appear
In the Senate TO bnlly and insult loyal men?
6. Would you consent to give new guaran-
tees to that accursed institution which has
proved itself so dangerous to all the institu-
tions of freedom, and which has raised its i'm
pious hand to destroy the proud work of our
fathers?
Z. Would you consent to nullify the act of
Congress giving freedom to the District Of
Columbia, and remand to slavery those who
have been liberated under that enactment?
s. Would you consent, for peace and resto-
ration, to assume the debts incurred by the
rebel government, and place Confederate scrip
the price of sin and blood-on par with
our own greenbacks?
o. Would you consent to make atonement
for all the spoliations suffered by our "rebel
brothers. at the hands Of the Union forces Of
the nationp
If you would do these things-and none
but a fool or mailman can believe the leaders
in the rebellion would consent to less than is
here indicated--then you need not answer the
question whether you would, II demanded,
ask forgiveness of the South for daring to re-
sist secession, for presuming to defend the
flag, for pretending to be a match for hegrace-
less scoundrels who have precipitated apeace-
full country into all the horrors of civil war.
These things Of course you would do; and as
the major includes the minor, you would I'M
questionably agree ever more to think and
speak respectfully Of slavery; to endorse it as
the essence of all the divine ordinations; TO
sing hosannas to the slave whip, the branding
iron and the thumb screw, and to regard those
who use them 'as the Amounted of heaven !;
and II there is "lo,cer depth" into which you
could possibly crawl on your bare knees, you
would unhesitatingly go down there, be spit
upon and jeered, kicked and cuffed, like worth
less offal as you would be, by the lords OF the
plantation.
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