The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-11-20

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The World-Again.
When according to Milton, Satan headed
rebellion against the hosts of rHeay-
en- and. failing, addressed his broken, routed
and ruined followers in a speech on the sltu-
ation," it will be remembered that he refused
TO despair because, although the field was ies''
"immortal hate" survived, and though ING ns
arch-rebel had found himself, to hiscost' I'M
able to cope with Omnipotence, yet this en-
during hate could yet wreak itself on ieeDie
Man. 1t could find relief in running the lnno-
cent and the helpless.
Tt might be supposed difficult to find among
human beings any parallel to the spirit here
manifested, but if any of our readers na'e 80, oAA
en- the disagreeable trouble to reao inc Nom
Yorl, World for the week past they Will
bavo Gound there disposition SO precisely re-
sonhl;ng that manifested by Millions Satan
that no conceivable spectacles could enable
one to detect difference 1t sees that the
field is lost, that its party has suffered inthe
recent elections an overwhelming and ruinous
defeat, the voice of the people, which has been
called the voice of God, has pronounced that
party's irreversable doom; but still the Hoftd
does not find its occupation gone. 1t bates no
lot of its malignant, its satanic activity. For
is there not, forsooth, still remaining the mig
ger to be hated and injured? On his devoted
and most innocent head may be wreaked all
the evil passions engendered by disappointed
ambition, detected hypocrisy, and treason ex-
posed and foiled. ...-..r .,.,..., 81,
A few days since we had occasion TO allude
to an article in the paper in question, by which
it was proposed to show that because certain
negroes had raj ed an Instruction in Jamaica.
therefore the whole colored race in the United
States are unfit to be trusted with political
and civil liberty. Conceived.in similar spirit
is an article now before US, which we take
from a more recent issue of the same paper
1t is headed "Relief for the South" and is in
tended to bring discredit upon and to throw
difficulties in the way ofthoSe benevolent per-
sons at the North who are laboring to relieve
the misery under which many, both black and
white, are suffering in the southern states; be-
cause the World fears that if the state ofthings
ed it may result untayorably tor the plans of
those re-constructiag rebels who wish to get
the negro wholly into their own power that
they may work their devilish will with him
unhindered by any interference OF the lGenef-
al Government Here is specimen of the
base insinuations by which, rather than by any
fair and open argument, it seeks to attain Its
point: q. ~ ''-''
IF the war for the Union and the emancipa-
ton of the blacks were to result in paralyzing
the industry of the Southern communities
and in making paupers of both the white and
black races at the South, we should have small
reason to thank God, on the 18th of December
next, for our victories youchsafed by Him. ~
Let us see to it, while3we are stretching
forth our hands to feed the hunger and to
clothe the nakedness of the South, that we do
nothing to strengthen policy which threatens
to make these acute miseries ofeur fellow
countrymen chronic, By denying to the acLites
the sacred rights and soise Snsnaanites of local
enforcement, and By depriUi7sg the bLacEs of
the wholesome and needfat discipline of a set
tLed plain, and easily comprehensive system
ofreLgtions betaceen themselves and the rest of
the communities In which they are to lice.
Whether the Northern agitation of the abol-
ton of negro slavery did or did not lead di-
rectly to the horrible results of revolution and
war which lie behind us in the immediate
past, it is, we repeat, unnecessary to now
discuss. But it is far from being unnecessary,
it is vitality important for us TO consider the
not less horrible results to which the North
ern agitation of negro suffrage, if now per-
sisted in, must lead, by delaying the political
reorganization and confounding the social re-
construction of the Southern States.
The italics are ours. They show where lies
the meat in that cocoa-nut. Let every un-
fortunate in the South whom war has de-
prived of food and shelter perish in his desti-
tuition, no matter what may be his color; let
women and children starve and SILVER, but be-
ware how you limit the power of unrepent-
ant rebels, beware how you interfere with the
rights under the constitution" ,, of men who
have done their utmost to throttle the con-
stitution, or restrict the sacred right of every
planter to waDop his own niger! If the re-
suit of the war is to be the importing of
things so sacred as these, then indeed we have
little cause for thanksgiving to God on the7th
OF December! If there was ever anything in
in the spirit and purposes of the arch-iend
himself, meaner or more malignant than that
here manifested, we are unable to point it out