The Portland daily press., 1863-01-03

their own hands! such is the way in which
the editor of the Portland Advertiser exhibits
his patriotism, and his loyalty to the Govern
ment! He may set up nights to express his
"reoicings" that the soldiers did not do what
lie limited they should have done, but he can
not deceive five loyal men in the city, or even
in the State, into the belief that he would not
rejoice in his inmost soul to see the very thing
done that he has suggested, or that he would
not openly ddrise it If he dared to do so--if
he did not fear the suffocating effects of rope
and cross-beam.
He has published the brutal iendsh procla-
nation of JEFF. Davis, and with his own hand
has given it an endorsement to this extent:
that it is one of the consequences of President
Lincoln's policy of administering the govern
ment; that it will constitute one of the great
pages for good or for evil in the history of the
rebellion; that it is neither an unnatural, nor
Il strange doctrine that it claims to be judged
of God aud history upon its propocation and
its justification,
Has he allowed anywhere that the procla-.
nation of emancipation by President Lincoln,
has been proroked or is justified !; that it can
possibly be page for good in the history of
the rebellion; that it is one of the consequent
ces of rebellion, or that God can in any way
approve it? By no means; and, therefore, it
is only just to say that the rebel proclamation
has received more generous treatment at the
hands of the Advertiser than the proclamation
Of our constitutional President.
A few words in relation to the Advertisers
leader ofyesterday, headed "Rank Dsunionsn
-Abotionism driven to the Confessional"
This article indicates the madness that is unto
death-the madness brought upon those whom
the gods devote to destruction. The editor
talks of the "baits" which he has willingly fur
nished the Press "to enable it to draw to itself
all the abolitionists o. the State" Self-abne-
CATION with vengeance! Willing to act the
traitor to deveope aboltionism, Willing to
betray dsloyalty to drive subscribers 10 the
Press. Willing to die that a rival may live!
That is rich-decidedly so.
The editor indulges in column in relation
to our late article, "The Union as it was" an
article by every position and proposition of
which we stand, and every one of which we
are prepared 10 uelenu. we insist. as we hlnt-
ed therein, that those who oppose the restora-
ton of the Union unless they can hare IL as
10 lcas-who prefer that the Union should new
er be restored if slavery cannot bepreserved-
are, not quasi-trditors, but ful-fedged and
full-blooded traitors; and the evidence daily
multipes that one of these at least is not far
removed from the paper which has called for
this notice. And we will here add, that the
highest service such men can perform in our
behalf is to repeat daily the language which
concludes the leader referred TO in yesterdays
Advertiser, in which our "fauatic Sheet is
held up as the poisoned Bohon Upas. This
editor, who so stickes for the Constitution as
it is, does not fail, in nearly every issue, to
make some fling at those who spurned the
Crittenden compromise, which was nothing
more or less than proposal to change the
Constitution SO as to give despotic insttu-
ton increased strength, new guarantees, and
additional rights, and TO put into that instru-
ment offensive words and doctrines against
which its trainers revolted, and from which
they turned with disgust. So much for the
consistency and honesty Of paper that is
constantly chanting the refrain-"The Con-
stituton as it is, the Union as it pds"