The Portland daily press., 1864-02-27
The Advertiser on Social Morality.

In the Portland Advertiser OF the 10Th inst.
we find the following editorial:
"Miscegenation" goes on bravely at Hilton
Head. 1t is authentic that some sixty of the
Massachusetts spinsters who were sent there
as teachers, have done their whole duty, and
the fruit of their labor is visible and about
the color of little woodchuek. On the 9TH
er hand the male missionaries have not been
idle. They have been telling us how ready
the blacks were TO embrace their teachings,
and themselves they might have added A
shipmaster, whose vessel lay for some time at
Beaufort tells us that the rule there has been
to clap the male negroes into the army, and
that of the other sex there are not two out OF
ten who do not illustrate the progress OF TINS
new abolition-republican avowed doctrine oil
the dnty of amalgamaiion with the negro. we
make no distinction between Garrison, fhlil-
fps and the President, Chase, Fremont, or any
who by votes and acts of apractical character
stand together. We do not allude to these
facts from any low motive. They are sign
of the times, and, mark If it do not prove so,
--henceforth the duty OF analgamation with
the black race, regardless of the marriage
covenat even. is strongly and firmly engraited
into the creed of the party that now controls
the natioDl II 10 is not so we have observed
the tendencies and strength of modern ocial
fallacies TO little purpose. from socialism up
to what we now see of this higher develop
ment of 1t.
Perhaps we owe apology to the reader for
polluting our columns with so vile para
graph as the foregoing, but we felt called upon
to trespass SO far upon good taste that we
might show our well-minded and virtuous
community the minus and spirit of a paper
which recently has been thought TO be on its
good behavior, and which many people have
been disposed TO think had mended its man
ners and was to occupy higher ground than
II has for twelve months past.
A large number Of philanthropic, sef-sac-
rihcing ladies' and gentlemen from our own
New England, in a spirit of philanthropy in
view Of which angels might rejoice and only
demons would scowl, have been peril rming
missionary labor among the poor ignorant
Contrabands thrown within our lines by the
fortunes of war. Schools have been opened
and a work has been done surprising in good
results anything ever before witnessed in eff
forts to elevate the condition of the poor,
down-trodden and degraded. While these
selfsacrifcing spirits have been thus at work,
directing and leading the poor Contraband in
the direction of higher and better life;
while they have been thus laboring, generally
without compensation and often at their own
expense, there have been few persons or pa
pers mean enough or sufficiently diabolical 10
assail their good name, OF to speak of their
philanthropic and Christian mission in other
than the most respectful terms. In all our
readi = ehSyr seen no assault upon their
moral integrity made By any paper on our ex-
change list-out of the State-with the ex
press in New York paper worthy to repre-
sent the lowest dregs of that city, and which
would scarcely be tolerated even in the out
houses of any respectable family.
1t has remained for the Portland Advertiser
owned and controlled exclusively by F. o.
]. Smith--to assail those virtuous instructors
of the poor and ignorant, and to charge them
with crimes too beastly aud offensive to be
repeated in our columns. 1t has remained
for such paper TO charge Garrison and
Phillips, and the President, Chase, Fremont,
or any who by votes and acts of practical
character stand together with making it
the duty of white people TO "amalgamate with
the black race" regardless Of the marriage
''corenant.! Such is the unblashing efl'ron-
terry, such the insults to yirtuous communi-
ty, exhibited in paper whose owner and sole
controller is now figuring most unpleasanty
In the criminal and civil courts not only of
our own State but of .neighboring State.
Indicted by the Grand Jury of Suffolk for sub
ornation Of perjury, and with two suits pend
ing in the Courts Of his own county for the
seduction of young and, but for his alleged
offences, virtuous girls, he dares insult our
community by charging RIGHTEOUSNESS upon
the nations Chief Magistrate, and assailing
the virtue OF ladies and gentlemen the latch
cts of whose shoes he is not worthy TO I'M
loosel We advise this delamer Of female vir-
tue, this gross calumniatUr OF the self-sacrihc-
ing friends Of the poor, to stop his vile as
saults, and forbear his homilies upon social
order and social morality, at least until his
own name is clear of the complications to
which we have referred. 1t would seem as
though female character had already suffered
enough at his hands, TO be spared his gross
and malignant attacks upon those who are
obcying the precepts of our holy religion. in
feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, open
ing the eyes of the blind, and leading the poor,
oppressed and ignorant up 10 better condi-
ton.
. The Sanitary Commission Funds.
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