The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-09-14
The Animus OF the Great Rebellion.


Those who suppose the shareholders rebel
lion is war waged simply against the 4.fri-
can, and TO extend the area of negro slavery,
were never more mistaken. They lose sight
of the great object which underlies this whole
thing; this most stupendous attempt of the
ages to set back the index upon the great di-
al-plate of the worlds civilization. The rebel
lion aims at more. 1t deals its blows at the
avocation Of the honest iaborer, and is a cru
SADIE against those who eat their bread literal
ly in the sweat of their faces-who subsist by
honest toll; to accomplish this wicked pur-
pose it must wrap the common mind in the
dark pail of ignorance, which can be done
only by striking down all popular education.
In support of these propositions we make the
following extracts from Southern men and
Southern papers.
In every civilized country under the sun,
some there must be who labor for their daily
bread linen who tend the herds and dig the
soi,-who have no real or personal capital of
their own, and who earn their daily bread by
the sweat of their brow. l have as sincere
feelings of regard for that people as any man
who lives among them. But ask gentlemen
to say, whether they believe that those who
depend on their daily labor for their daily sub
sistence, can, or do, ever enter into political
affairs? They never do, never will, never
can--[B. Watkins Leigh, Va, 1920.
He who works during the day with his
hands does not read in the intervals of leisure,
for his amusement, or the improvement of his
mind; or the exception is so very rare as
scarcely TO need the being provided for
chancellor Harper, S. C.
Domestic sfaoery, instead of being an ecii,
Is THE COMMISSIONS OF OUR REPUBLICAN
EDIFICE.-[Gov. McDuffee' 5. e.
II laborers ever obtain the political power
of a country il is in fact in a state of revolu-
tion.-[Gov. Pickens, Sc
The South maintains that slavery is right,
natural and necessary, and does hot depend
upon difference Of complexion. The laws of
the slave States justify the holding of ,ctite
men in bondage Richmond Examiner.
Slavery is the normal condition of the la
boring man whether WHITE OR BLACK
charleston Mercury.
We have got to hating everything with the
prefix tree-from free negroes down and up,
through the whole catalogue of denominations,
deinagogueries, lusts, PHILOSOPHERS fanatacism,
and folies, free farms, free labor free will, free
thinking, free love, free wives, free children,
and free schools, all belonging 10 the same
brood of da,nnable isms. whose mother is Sin
and whose daddy is the Devil.
But the worst OF all these denominations
because, when once installed, it becomes the
hot-bed propagation of al-is the modern sys-
TEN of free schools. We abominate the sys-
TEN because the schools are free, and because
there ought to be no mob road to learning
[Richmond Examiner.
"Free Society! We sicken at the name
What is it but congomeration of greasy me
chanics, filthy operatives, small listed farmers,
and moon-struck theorists? All the North
ern and especially the New England States,
are devoid of society fitted for well-bred gen.
tlemen. The prevailing class one meets with,
is that of mechanics struggling to be genteel,
and small farmers who do their own drudgery,
and yet who are hardly fit for association with
Southern gentleman's body servant Musi-
ogee tAla.) Herald.
We close with recent infamous and BIAS
phemous extract from the Richmond Exami-
ner, the personal organ OF JEFF. Davis. That
paper of Mays2Sth said:
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE coNFEDE-
BAcY is, VERIFY, DISTINCT REACTION
AGAINST THF WHOLE MISTAKEN CIyILIZA-
TON OF THE AGE. And this is the true rea-
son why we have been left without the SYM
pathy of the nations until we conquered that
sympathy with the sharp edge of our sword.
FOR LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY
WE HAVE DELIBERATELY SUBSTITUTED
SLAVERY SUBoRDIAAIoN, AND GOVERN
MENT.
Such being the dnin,us Of this rebellion, the
great Interior purpose underlying the whole
struggle of the Southern disunionists and
traitors, who so stupid as to require argument
to satisfy him that to sympathize with the re-
bellion, to Apologize for those engaged in it,
or TO Withhold sympathy from the Government
in its efforts to crush it out and to uphold its
own authority, is nothing more or less than to
war against the laboring man, and to strike
hands with those who would reduce him to
the level of the negro slave!