The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-05-11
The Democracy Of the Plantation.

Beverly Tucker is an unquestioned Demo-
crat Of the modern stripe. OF the regular Vir-
ginia school Of democrats, he at one time pup
lished and ss.a,,ts !. Democratic paper in WASH
ington. and was honored by President Bucnan-
an with one Of the most lucrative offices IN MS
gift-the Consulship at Liverpool his De-
mocracy, therefore, is unqnestioned, ana tne
high estimation in which he was held by his
party is beyond dispute.
Well. this Hon. Mr.. Beverly Tucker, has
recently written letter from Montreal to the
New York Tribune, in which he shows how
he has cultivated the true southern demo-
cratic spirit of days agone, since his party UNI
dertook to break up this free government OF
ours.
After quoting the language of the telegram
said to have been sent from this city to Wash
ington on the day of the Presidents assassina-
tion-"Beverly Tucker and jacob Thompson
will be here tomorrow in disguise, to leave on
the steamer for Europe. What shall we do?'
The goes on to say:
ST would inform the wiseacres OF Portland
that have had no intention OF going to Eu
rope; and if had, / certainly never have
dreamed of debarking at any port in that sec
ton of the United States known as New Eng
land, where valor, for the most part, resides In
mobs, and the patriotism of whose people
oozss out, without regard to color, in "substi-
tutes" Oh, no; / never intended to go there.
II conclude to sail, look out for me in New
York, where the manly spirit of freemen rises
above the meaner passions of our race"
= l. Al a&xIa r. hon
the genuine snap of the whip. 1t is the same
old style in which the "F. f. VS." have been
accustomed from days out of mind. to turn up
their democratic noses at New England. OF
course, Portland would have been honored
and Mr.. Beverly Tucker disgraced by his
pressing her soil with the sole of his demo
cratic foot. New England don't smell well in
democratic nostrils. Had Mr.. Beverly Tuck
er come here, with the Presidents protection
against arrest, we dare say he would have found
men to grasp his hand, to bow the knee before
him;to hob-nob with him, and to fete him at
the "Preble" or the Estates" would he have
condescended to enter such puritanical New
England establishments as one of our hotels
No doubt in passing down Exchange Street
on the eastern side, he would have caught a
Whit Of genuine Southern air as he passed the
Argus Office, and had he called he would have
come out with changed views Of our Port
land people, and might have concluded that
we are blest with some Of that "manly spirit
of freemeu," which in New York tears down
and burns negro cabins, and dashes out upon
the curb-stone the brains of negro babiesl
Isn't it refreshing to fall in with such savory
morsels as that which we have quoted from
Mr.. Beverly Tucker And isn't it a proud
satisfaction to reflect that we have among
as class OF politicians who are extremely
anxious lest they may never have another op.
portunity to bow down and buckle the shoe
latchets of such imperious masters Would
MT it be grand idea to grant full amnesty to
such men, and allow them to come back, heads
erect and crests borne aloft, into the Union, tc
. rule the "mudsills" and to lord it over those
"whose valor resides In mobs, and whose pat
riotism oozes out, without regard to color in
substitutes" What a loss will the American
Democracy { J suffer in the eternal exclusion
Of such lily-fngered men-stealers, women
whippers and baby-killers from the council
of the nation ?