The Portland daily press., 1864-10-15
FOR v1oB-pREsIDHNT.
ANDREW JOHNSON, /"
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For Electors.
The Jaoobins Revealing their Programme.

The Jacobins Revealing their Programme.
We have given our readers some account Of
the conspiracy which had its head in Indiana, I
with G. L. vallandigham for its chief spirit
We have also-some weeks back-giyen an
extract from the N. Y. World which indicat
ed purpose to revolt against Mr.. Lincolns
authority, and to prevent by force his inaugu
ration, should he be reelected by the aid OF
West Virginia, the reconstructed States, and
the soldiers vote. III wrr
We have also taken occasion to publish, and
comment upon, the second resolution of the
Chicago Convention, in which resistance is
threatened in the event of Mr.. Lincoln's cleo
tion by means not approved by that conclave,
which, while it may have embraced many hon
est but misguided men, was controlled by con-
spirators and traitors. aaEe4s 8niNAE-E
But we have seen nothing more defiant and
more plainly exhibiting the Jacobin purpos-
es of the copperheads than the leader in the
Portland Advertiser of yesterday, ominously
headed "a NEW REVOLUTIONS We give
an extract:
The Administration Lincoln and Mr..
johnson, the negro candidates for the Presi
dency and Vice Presidency, seem, especially
determined to provoke q new revolution by
their high handed, despotic and unconstitu-
tional measures to secure an election of them
selves. ssfsitss ,,.sa X .si,sc-stss
The Chicago Convention, which represent
ed more than one million of voters, with
meaning not to be misunderstood, passed this
resolution unanimously: u 6s,.siisb
The late inter ference of the military authorities
of the Uaied States in the recent elections held in
Kentucky. Maryland. Missouri and Delaware, was
shameful violation of the Constitution, and repe,
tt.on of such acts at the approaching election sc
b heid as rerotatioRary and resfsted sith OIL The
means and poaoer Iader our control"
Following this is aseyere attack upon Gov.
johnson of Tennessee, because, in anelection
proposed in that state, recently under Confed-
crate rule, and formally amember of the Con-
federation, but now under military govern
ment, he requires that no man shall be eligible
to vote who refuses to take an oath to support
the government and to stand by the national
flag, and who will not swear never to consent
to the disintegration of the Union. 1t is for
such reasons that the red-mouthed traitor
who Yields the pen editorial Of that paper, in
vokes the spirit Of forcible resistance Of the
Government, and shows a willingness to light
up the fires Of civil war In the North as they
have been lighted in the South.
1t is one Of the most unaccountable things
in this mysterious world, that paper taking
such ground, whose sole purpose is to TO-
ment discomfort with the governmentand to
breed revolution, should be In part supported
by the very government it is laboring to de-
stroyl In the very number containing the
Jacobin threats quoted above, we find full
column Of Government advertising! Almost
every issue of the paper teens with articles
designed to destroy the credit of the Govern
meut, representing the public bonds as worth
less, the "greenbacks" as no better than waste
paper, and limiting at, if not advocating, gen.
eral reputation, and yet 1t is one of the pa
pers in which Government loans are advertis-
ed for sale, and proposals are invited for tax
ing public securitiesl Aa
Our publicI servants at Washington may
think 1t very liberal and catholic way of do
Ing business, to scatter their pearls thus be
fore the swine who are ready to trample them
10 the mire, or to give that which is holy to
dogs who are growing with desire to rend
them, but the common people take very diff
ferent view of duty In this hour of the nations
peril. ass GtAi3AtEe
We eau tell our worthy and laborious rub
lie servants, that they are, In this very way.
doing m IRE than they probably think for, to
sicken the loyal heart, and to make thousands
OF as true men as ever shoaldered gun or
cast ballot, In the very bitterness of de-
spondency, exclaim, Why, In Heavens name,
when we are striving to uphold the Govern
ment and to defend 1t against traitors and
those who would be traitors il they dared acf
as badly as they talk, why Will that Govern.
ment persist in distributing favors to those
same vile men, and In sustaining them in their
dlsIoyaltyw IA '-'. s. .5 siT e.
God forbid that we should invoke, in the
loyal, peaceful States, any unlawful means for
suppressing disloyal men or disloyal papers
We abhor mob violence from the depths of
our inmost soul, and would not even apologize
ior II SO long as the evils it would put down
are not absolutely unbearable, or SO long as
osher means of resisting evil are possibly
I'LL
1Vaiia'ie' Though necessity makes law, or
rather, knows no law, and cases mav arise
when the people are justified, in the most sum-
mary way, in putting down an evil which
threatens their best good, yet we 90 against
mob violence.
Nor do we ask that any doubtful legal nov.
or should be exercised. While we wouId NJ
doubt, had Ve the poDer, put such fellows as
are trying to prepare the public mind for a
Northern rebellion, in Fort Lafayette in less
than twenty-four hours, we do not ask for the
exercise of such power by the administra-
ton. M
we nave not solitary doubt Of the justice
u Sucn an exercise of power, and have equal
ly little doubt as to some individual cases in
which IL should be exercised. Init It "a well.
perhaps, that the exercise should Ia ,g;sbbeld5
and that no act should be done which n q
possible to leave undone, the tendorcv a
which is to irritate and exasperate anv class
Of our population. We know-eyerv lo,oI
man knows-that no act ever performed hu
the government did more to quell treasonabla
manifestations in this State, and TO beget
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