The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-07-26
solvent, an adjective. signifies able to pay

solvent, an adjective, signifies able to pay
all debts.~
Page 81 contains several briiliants. Hers Is
one, possibly borrowed from The vocabulary OF
Northern Copperheadism;
"The administration Of Abraham Lincoln
is despotism."
The exact meaning of the following. on the
same page, is somewhat problemaiical, though
IT Is presumed to refer to that ailment in the
South which 'breaks out" in the decidedly
yellow tnge OF so many slave babies:
THE jaundice is adisease characterized by
q yellow skim"
The following is presumed to have been
suggested by the spirit of Lycurgas at some
evening entertainment OF the Southern rap
pers:'
Legislative enactments are not despotjc
when they are within the bounds of consttu-
tional provisions"
A Constitution may be SO artfully framed
as to euslaye nine-tenths of those who are TO
live under it, and 10 place the other tenth, all
"booted and spurred," upon the backs oil the
majority class, and yet any enactments tcuhln
its provisions is not despoticl II such TOM
fooleryiwas not found in confederate spell
ing book sensible men might not believe it.
On page los We read:
"The confederate States are usually favored
with abundant harvests; We should acknowl
edge the goodness of God in this
1t is propable this was not intended for tho
latitude Of Richmond, where -four is five ant
a. t,,p doll - Al
and Mobile, where bread riots have proved ex
eeedingly annoying to the officers charged
with the preservation of the peace.
On the page last quoted we find gem
the first water:
"All mankind are brethren, and descendenu
of common parents. How unnatural ans
wicked it is to make war on our brethren, u
CONQUER them, or to plumber them and DESTROY
themr So says DIR. Webster in the face of al
his Northern friends. This sentiment dc
serves a monument to his memory. Ever,
true Southerner must appreciate it. Ever.
God-fearing man will endorse it"
The "God-fearing" wigfall, and Keitt, anC
other "true Southerners" Of that type, mus
have deeply felt the force of such setimen
when they broke the national peace by com
mencing the bombardment of Fort Sumter
with its little garrison reduced almost To tn
point O. starvation, and every true Southern
err probably has "God fearing" sense of tn
common brotherhood and common parentag
OF the race, revived in him every time h
whips full grown colored brother, guiltles
of ali crime, or sells him on the block like a
OK in the shambles.
On page lib we read:
"a patriarch is the father Of a family. Abra
ham was the great patriarch OF the lsrae,ites.
As cur confederate friends do not acknowl
they show that they are only "Gentile dogs,
aud belong not to his family.
On pages IS, "a. l2s, and how many other
we know not, there is special pains taken t
instruct SERVANTS to obey their masters, and /
all such cases the Injunction is made emphati
by putting the word servants in small capital:
But We have already occupied too much space
1t is a significant and suggestive fact that
book for the children OF a christian nation
the elementary book in their education
utcu ~ NC WIFI DlDi
Readings" to uphold aud deepen reverence
and respect for human bondage, while thI
moral preeepts of the gospel are entirel
omitted, and even tae Golden Rule-"A
things whatsoever We would that men shout
do unto you do We even SO unto them'-is en-
tirely ignored. The sacredness Of huma
slavery is enforced, but the duty Of love t
our fellow-men, or of undoing the heavy bun
dens and letting toe oppressed go free, is nc
where recognized as universally binding Oh
legation.
What must be the character OF a social sys
TEN needing to be supported at the neglect o
moral precepts, or Of a social institution need
ing to be gilded over with a class Of text
which, by forced construction, are made re
pulsiye to the spirit Of the age aud the instinct
of the soul, while il shrinks from those grea
and glorious enunciations of the Christa
Master which reveal God as a common Father
Jesus as a common Saviour, Man as a com
mon brother aud Heaven as common home