The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-09-07

We find in yesterdays Argus the fo'iow'ps
proclamation by eGovernor" Piiisoufy'

proclamation by @Governor" Pillspury'
~ 81 CARD. a,
Certain partisan sheets are, Jn o'e ,a,
of alectiou Giving circulation 70 CERTAIN oi"h
u - or,5o.,t. connecting me with so-ealieu
uerou: Iel ~ r;ot in the town of kinghed, in
1858. ..r,.o roe.a;nad from notio;no
.,,,so SANDERS because could not suppose that
any nerson of common intelligence would be-
1--we me so utterly wanting in Judgment as to
advise or countenancc an attempt on the part
of ten or a dozen young men in little frontier
town, to placc themselves in open resistance to
the government of the United States, at a
time VIII. n it hal a million Of armed men at its
command; but there seems to be concerted
plan now to try and make political capital by
circulating these ISLANDERS, and it may be my
duty to refute them.
Therefore state 60 the public, that any and
all repor charging me with having advised,
instigated or countenanced. any such rlot.o.
of having had any knowledge or intimation
TINT it would occur-or Of having been IN any
way connected with or responsive lot - "'
pure fabricatons. and utterly false; . ...o,,a
defy the authors of these SANDERS 70 pio ~
| that ever uttered or published one woru an
yising or countenancing any other conrss, -, as
any time, than obedience 20 she p, ,aMs ~ ."e
land. - r.
Augusta, Sept. 4, 1861.
we have taken considerable pains to obtain
the exact truth with reference TO the affair OF
which Mr.. Pillsbury speaks. The charge to
which he Is called TO answer, is not as he states
IL, of having advised or countenanced an At
tempt on the part OF ten or a dozen young men
in little "frontier" town, to place themselves
in open opposition TO the Government of the
United States. Officer Lambert in his report
of the Kingfeld disturbance, speaks of mob
of ffty men; there were riotous demonstrations
in Salem and Freeman, as wellas in Kin2field,
the United States Government had at that
time less than three hundred thousand troops
in the field. instead of ambition" and was in
urgent need of recruits; but we do not now
| stop to controvert these misstatements. The
| charge against Mr.. Pillsbury is that he, either
| willfully or ignorantly, encouraged those mis-
guided men, not alone, but in company, as they
supposed, with Democrats of New York, Mas
sachusetts, New Hampshire, Ohio, the whole
North in short, to rise in instruction, and put
an end 10 the war for the Union. 1,dc1 ~
This charge. Mr.. Pillsbury does not deny. He
does not deny that he was the editor Of the
| Pennington "Patriot," q paper for which, as the
Boston Advertiser says, mo trumpery of Brick
| Pomeroy or Chauncey Burr was too low" He
does not deny that he was opposed to the war,
| that he was accustomed to speak of it as an
| "accursed, fratricdal Abolition war;" and to
| pirate like ex-President Pierce about the 'mili-
| tary usurpation" at Washington. "With OF
without arms, with or without leaders, said
MrPierce at Concord, in 1868, eve will at least
defend our rights as a free people," What did
those words mean? Why were they reproduc-
ed in the Pennington sPatriot9" Mr.. Pills,
bury does not deny that on the 18th of July
1868, he addressed at Salem the men who were
concerned in the next weeks riots. The tenor
| of his speech might safely be inferred from his
previous and subsequent course. But the Far
lnington Chronicle, published next door to Mr.
Pillsbury's office in that town, sal Ia year ago
The week previous to the mob attack .upor
the United States officers, the meeting wal
held at Salem, which fired up" the mob spirit
to its highest pitch Of fury. This was meet.
| ing of the Democratic clubs of Kingfield, Sa-
| lem and freeman. E. f. PnLsBURY scas the
principal speaker, and emery enc present Tenaene
berS to ttS day the re6eliOuS spirit of the speech
| he made 1t e1cited the gerry tcorSt passions o.
that croaod of deluded nse1,.Al eHiiGSs51491 a
l5JMr.. Pillsbury has never contradicted this
statement. 1t has been before the public for q
year, and he has held his peace. He does not
contradict it now. He says he "neyer ady sed
instigated or countenanced any, such riot
IastiJated is a dangerous word to use under th,
circumstances, but nobody pretends that Mr.
| Pllsbury advised" the riot He is not $50 ut
| terty wanting in Judgment" as that He says
finally that he was Ina way connected will
| or responsible for IT, Then the man who ap
| plies the spark to gunpowder not is " responsi
BILE" for the explosion 1t is on the question of re
sponsbility alone that Mr.. Pillsbury takes is
sue. He talks of :" fabricatiohs," but he names
not onc.l He does not deny that this meeting
took place at Salem on the 18th July, 1868; ht
does not deny that at this meeting the mol
| spirit was " fred up" as the Chronicle said
year ago; he does not deny that he was the
principal speaker on that occasion, and that th,
| spirit of his speech was properly characterized
by theChronicle as 'febellious;' he simply say
he did not advise" any riot, and he not Ere
sponsible for it, l5oilHf 5iaa1
We leave the matter, on his own statement
to the intelligent judgment of the people 0
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