The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-10-04

there is no place in any Southern State where
such Convention would be tolerated. '-P0H-
land Press. =--a--.-
The National Intelligencer has denied that
any such boast ever appeared in its columns
The Press was not of course, aware of this
when it published the above. If it does not
wish to avail itself of a falsehood to establish
its theory of Southern liberation, it will at
once make the dmende honorable. = Bangor
Times. rt..-.- ...
The Times is entirely correct in supposing
that the Press does not wish to avail itself of
talsehood. IF the Objectionable sentence
were stripped of all reference to the National
Intelligencer, it would convey our meaning
equally we'll The Convention of loyal South
erners which met recently at Philadelphia, as
sembled there because there is no place in any
Southern State where such convention
would be tolerated. We believe this, because
Mr.. Saffold of Alabama, announced in full
convention that the secretary OF the commit
tee which issued the call had received large
numbers of letters from all parts OF the South,
from persons who desired - be present but
feared danger to their persons and lives. Mr..
Saffold said, at is not intended to publish the
names of these gentlemen, as to do SO might
endanger their lives at home" We do not
consider it an understandable conclusion, that
community in which mans life is; endan-
gered by his sympathy with the purposes of a.
political convention, would surround the con-
vention itself, with somewhat dangerous
element We believe with the New York
Post, that the convention ought to have been
held in some Southern city and protected by
the strong arm of the government; but it is
not strange that Southern Unionists, having
tested Mr.. Johnson's protection at New Or
leans and elsewhere, shrunk from any further
experiments Whether the mtelligencer said
it or not, we hold ourselves fully warranted in
saying that The September convention at Phil
adelphia would not have been tolerated in the
2 South. Z 't lat' "l" NV ''' e
hi In discussing this matter hitherto, we have
. not appealed to the list of outrages which
lengthens with every Southern mail AS we
write, news comes that DIR. Hoy of Elyton,
Tennessee, a respectable physician, has been
81 driven from his home by a band of ',Regula-
q tors,' solely on account of his staunch devo-
ton to the Union. A military escort had to
TO be sent from Nashville, to bring away his
property and family. Here is a narrative,
from the Fort Smith (Ark.) New Era, of the
9Th ult., which makes the blood run cold
q About the time Sheriff Williams was killed,
IN Pope county, couple of weeks ago, man
named Ray, who had been a soldier in the ID
Arkansas (Union) cavalry, was most barbar-
ously murdered in the same county, under the
% following circumstances: Several men rode
up to Rays house late in the evening and in
quired if they could have supper Ray told
them his wife was very sick, but that he would
do swhat he could for them. Whereupon he
himself prepared mealfor them and they par.
took,of IT. Supper over, and their horses fed
the bushwhackers, for such they were, asked
Ray what they had to pay. He Hospitality re-
fused compensation. . 7i-i is13Nft t'
What followed is of a nature SO diabolcal
and heart-rending as almost to stagger belief
The fiends then coolly told Ray that they had
come to kill him. and that he had to die ifpme-
dlately, accusing him of having killed friend
OF theirs during the war. Horror-struck, Ray
plead for his life, for the sake of his poor WIFE
who was confined to her bed a HELPLESS invalid
But the monsters knew no mercy, and as one
OF them was about to fire, the wife sprang out
OF her bed and placed herself before her hus-
band, begging with all the fervor of devoted
vile, under circumstances SO dreadful for her
husbands life. But in vain. The sayages re-
moved one arm from her husband and fired,
shooting the man Whose only crime was to be
Union man and an ex- Union soldier) through
the body Breaking away from his wife, he
staggered across the room, thinking, perhaps,
to escape, but fell dead after receiving three
iAe-- s.ae'ts iha assassin thap firad "a tho
remaining two charges of his revolver in the
roonl, and the whole party left. iia ~
No arrests have been made, nor will there ev-
er be. The murderer, before he killed Raw
confessed he did not know anything of him.
but that he acds Union man and Union men
could not iUe there. ya0. finl a7hn8-
3 81 The same paper mentions two other MUIR
ders OF Union men in the same county, and
third attempt. The amount of such testimo-
ny is overwhelming. Outside of the large
cities there is no safety for ayowed Unionists
at the South, and Northern men are univer-
sally suspected These facts, confirmed in
many ways, do indisputably establish what
the Times chooses to call our ''theory of
Southern toleration.' 1t will not help the
matter to shut our eyes and declare we see
no intolerance in the South. 1t is there, and
must be estimated in dealing intelligently with
political questions respecting the Southern
people. zee, sllas.a1 81. ave- f-
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