The Portland daily press., 1866-06-29
How not to Promote Harmony.

Some of our Democratic neighbors are quite
ready to hold up their hands in dismay when
ever Memphis riots or other savage exhlpi-
tions of the state of Southern society demand
and receive notice in Northern newspapers.
We should be pleased to hear these gentlemen
discourse upon the following extracts from
recent speech by Mr.. Harris, MARYLAND Rep
resentative and and avowed Secessionist, who
was censured and ought to have been expelled
by the last Congress. This speech has been
widely copied by Southern newspapers, and is
complimented by the Mobile Times, as great
oratorical effort" and an "answer to the SLAM
ders heaped on the South by the Committee
of Fifteen" This is the way in which Harris
of Maryland answers Fessenden OF Maine:
Education is certainly widely diAfused over
che North. Her people are greatly enilgnten-
ed, but they set a great many faise ngnts.
Whence sprung all these isms, even IN the
nine teepth century, and within the age OF
his great reformer from Minnesota? think
he enlightened and christian North is enti-
led to credit for them all-Mormonism Mil
,erism. Spiritualism, Freelovism, and worst OF
Ill (if it should be spread beyond Massachus-
stts) g-minded-womanism, nave all
sprung and spread over that highly-c!vilized
and Christian region. The poor, ignorant,
lneducated South was incapable OF produc
ing such evidences of advancement and pro-
gress.
Dyoth, the assassin, was not caught, but
5rauety Shot by company OF soldiers. He
was brought to this CITY in order that the re-
ward for his arrest might be secured by prov
lng his identity. Alter that his entralls were
orn out and thrown to the hogs; his heaG
adorns some chronological museum; his heai'
:, preserved IN spirits; MS spinal column cal
| oe seen, which will display to the learned nov
much he must have suffered by the near ap
| oroach of the bullet to the spinal marrow thu
| balance of his remains are deposited, God al {
| Jur Northern Secretary of War only know
| where. We know that they were not handed
| over to his poor, heart-broken mother, so tina
| he might exclaim over his grave in burs
| of agony, @Would to God had died for thee
,, Absol3m, my son, my son"
Mary Surratt was convicted, OF course. Sh
was tried by court martial; her immediate
execution was ordered; she entreated TO
our days to enable her to overcome the shock
and the better to prepare her soul to meet he
God. @Not an hourp Numbered foith sth
voice from the War Department; "on witt
| the gallows, the coffin and the grave; the An
gels of Heaven shall not rejoice over thi
repentent sinner" Angels OF mercy sough
Inc ear Of higher authority and prob
| ably more mcrciful heart, but Presto,
| King was janltor that day, and the
were excluded. Where is Preston King
Echo answers where? She was thus execut
ed speedily, and Notwithstanding application
mas been made in behalf of her broken hear
ed daughter for her remains, those remain
are still in the keeping OF the War Depart
ment. Pontius Plate delivered the body Q
Jesus to Joseph of Arimathea, but wors
than Pontius Plate is here.
Having found Mr.. Harris comparing Mr.
Surratt to Jesus, it is easier 10 appreciate hi
interest in the religious condition of tn
Northern States. Have we not had enoug,
this man?