The Portland daily press., 1864-08-30
Judge Howard and the War.

Ii the Argus had copied the whole of our
or, we should have no occasion to alluds to
the matter a. this time, but such is not the
style" OF that paper.
1t does copy the following paragraph, how
ever, and then with feigned amazement talks
Of our assailing pure, upright, patriotic citi-
zen, &c:
"Men of Maine, will you give your suffrage
TO man whose opinions and views OF the
present war REDUCE FORTY THOUSAND OF
OUR SONS AND BROTHERS TO THE BLOODY
LEVEL OF LAWLESS UNAU fH0RiZED
CUr-THRoATS, ROBBERS AND CAPI-
TAI FELoNS!"
The Argus will gain nothing By its attempt
ed deception. The above is no assault upon
Judge Towards private character. 1t deals
only with his opinions, and asserts simply
that his "opinions and uietcs OF THE PRESENT
WAR" reduce our soldiers to the level of CAPT.
tai felons, &c. II does not say Judge How
ard personally so regards them; it says, in eff
feet, that his "views," carried out to their log
icsl results, would reduce them TO this uneu-
viable apd criminal level. And We repeat
the statement, and challenge the Argus to
give its readers, fairly and without garblng,
the grounds on which this allegation is based.
We viii re-state them for its benefit.
Judge Howard-so says the Bangor Demo
crat, and the Argus dares neither copy nor
contradict it--"denies7the POWER and the
RIGHT Of the Federal Government to coerce
the States" HE has ever BEEN OPPOSED TO
THE PRESENT WAR, and has uniformly been
Peace DeaocratIN THE broadcast SENSE OF
THE TERM"
What logically follows from this view Of
the war? Ii the Federal Government has
neither the po,csr nor the RIGHT 10 coerce a
State, by what authority, pray, does a single
Federal volunteer soldier to-day stand in
either of the Originally revolted states? And
by such volunteer act what does he necessari-
ly become? In going there voluntarily for
conquest is he not a robber? In deliberately
taking part in battle against the revoted states,
is he not cut-throat, murderer, capital
elon? We have furnished from this state at
least forty thousand cohmteers for the army
and navy, to fight, according to Judge How
ards opinion, in an unauthorized ,rdr: in war
against and in contrdcentioa of RIGHT, hay
ing no constitutional or legal authority, aud,
this opinion being correct, ia the name OF
all that is logical what are they reduced to If
not TO ''the bloody level of lawiess, unauthor-
lied Cutthroats, Robbers aud Capital Fell
ons?" Will the Argus, laying aside its shock
ed sensibilities at the expression of such log
zeal conclusions from its candidates "yiews
aud opinions" please tell US calmly why
these things are not precisely so?
In closing this efsrticle we would remark,
that the Argus sensibilities are as peculiar as
they are tender. 1t talks of 'decency aud pro-
priety in the conduct ofa campaign" 1t talks
of the Infamous paragraph in which Judge
Howari's "rie1s and opinions of the war" are
dealt with. 1t calls it "yillainous SANDER"
And all this, too, from paper which is daily
charging the President OF the United States
With crimes which, if true, should cost him
his head! Scarcely an issue of that paper ap-
pears that Mr.. Lincoln is not held up as a
gsurper; as the enemy of popular liberty; as
despot who seeks to divide and destroy the
nation; as one who is willing to kill all the
white people of the North to free the negroes
of the South; as man who thinks more of
negro pic-nes than of white Sabbath schools !
Such is the paper that is sensitive about per-
sonsl character, and invokes "decency and
propriety In the conduct of campaign.
Verify, We may soon expect to find Satan
reading homllles on morality, and shameless
bawds descanting upon the want Of chastity
In theii sex,