The Portland daily press., 1867-03-14
DAILY PRESS.
PORTLAND.
Thursday Morning, March IA, 1867.


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South is all peaceful, quiet, orderly and Ioyal
devoted to the Constitution and Union, and
that life and property are safe and the rights
of all respected and protected, even though
the combined testimony of military officers
in that section contradict him, and the blood
of New Orleans martyrs and others all over
the South proclaims the falseness of his i'm
pressions.
| 1t would be highly gratifying to the loyal
men of the nation to be able to believe the
rebels had not abused the clemency extended
| to them, and that the Presidential policy of
| wholesale pardoning of rebels and recon-
structing States had borne none of the fruits
of Sodom. ....sr.a.t . --a9L
To show something of the spirit yet by no
means extinct at the South, we lay before the
readers OF the Press few extracts from
some OF the pardoned patriots of that sunny
section OF the country. A friend has sent us
copy OF the Richmond Times of recent date.
edited by Mr.. P. III. Aylett, who was one of
the early subjects of the Presidents pardon
ing power. The leader in the paper referred
to relates to the approaching election in that
State, and the discussion of the gubernato-
rial question. The article opens with the
gratulatory declaration that
The magnificent vindication of the honor of
the State in the overwhelming vote by which
the amendment was rejected by the General
assembly indicates that there is to be no more
dirt eatng by the men of the Old Dominion.
The following extracts show how much of
penitence for past sins of treason may be ex-
hibited by pardoned and reconstructed
rebel: Ep.
Officiating having therefore been abandoned
as unwholesome and demOralizing bv the
Legislature, what should be hereafter the
course OF .his proud and noble old State? The
great struggle for national Independence into
which the people threw their whole soul having
failed. the general government can we admit,
nghtfully enforce the Constitution and laws OF
the United States within our borders.
But our oath of allegiance does not reouire
us to respect or obey that rebellious and dis
union body 1.-The U. S. Congress] which is now
at open war with the executive and judicial
departments of the government. WE HAVE
JUST DECLARED WITH LAUNDERING EMPHASIS
WORTHY THE HEROES OF MANASSAS, FREDER-
ICKsBURG, GAINES Mill, THE WILDERNESS
AND COLD HARBoR, THAT VIRGINIANs ARE
NOT SWORN SERBS" OF STEVENS AND SUMNER
tween our allegiance to the government and
obsequlousness to vile faction which is seek
ing its overthrow. We have not surrendered
our honor at the "stand and deliver" of the
POLITICAL HIGHwAYMEN IN CONGRESS. We
brought out ofthe late civil war too widespread
and well-deserved a reputation for courage
endurance and fortitude to outlaw, immo-
late, ,disfranehise and dishonor our brothers,
friends and respected leaders at the bidding of
implacable foes.
HAVING laid down onr OWNS ,,no,, +l,a oeSrr
ance of restored peace and reunion we cannot
give our assent to the preparation of that sort
of brutal outrage which it is ever in the power
OF lawiess conquerors to infiict upon the de-
feated. But We can so conduct ourselves here
after, as to retain the respect and admiration
OF the world for those noble qualities which
cast halo of glory over the gloom and dark
ness OF the lost cause"
Ignoring the right of Congress to dictate
terms OF reconstruction and prescribe the con-
ditions under which rebels shall re-acquire
their forfeited and lost rights, and flouting
those citizens of Virginia who would sensby
postpone action till the will of Congress was
made known, this pardoned rebel says:
Why should we wait the develope ment of
the revolutionary conspiracy against State
rights at Washington? Why should we trem-
bhngly await the result of the menace of State
which Congressional Yahoos threaten to detiIe
the mother OF States and of statesmen?' In
suited, dishOnored and brutally outraged. why
should we not calmly and boldly exercise, at
the usual time, the sovereign right to elect
whom Ue esteem most worthy, to the office
which "Govoner Pierpoint" now occupies
through the grace of Andrew johnson? flour
State government is to be speedily crushed by
brute force, we pray to God it Llay sink like q
noble old man-of-war, with colors flying, drums
hp1tIn0 VJr6-lrmg mo md L. H
ed, brave and battle-scarred Confederate Can
tam In command like Lee, Kemper, Smith or
Wise.
The following gem is peculiarly refreshing
to those who think the "Old Dominion" has
outlived her treason, and now with yearninc
loving heart asks to be enrolled among the
faithful, loyal, devoted States of the old Un-
ion: F.+..il.55 - ..
We want no man for that office IGovernorl
OF DOUBTFUL OR LUKEwARM DEVOTION TO
THAT CAUSE, OVER THE LOSS OF WHICH EVEN
OUR WOMEN ARE STILL WEEPING WE WANT
NO SUCCESSOR TO PERPo1N wHoT WAS NOT
WITH US HEART AND SOUL DURING OUR sTRUG-
GLE FOR LIBERTY
When the war commenced many of the
ablest OF our public men, of the very highest
order Of talents, threw themselves into the
ir9nt rank OF battle and won immortal honor.
4 1t would be strange, indeed, if heroic and
noble people ike the Virginians did not seek
to reward these men as valor is always reward
ed in republic. We care not whether these
gentlemen have been pardoned, or are still at
the mercy OF underwood and his peripatetic
grand jury. oa Hst& .Ea
While our hand is in we may as well give
an extract from a still more Southern source.
On the 22d of February, the Mobile Times in
dulged in some highfalntin over the occasion,
and referring to Washington, said: ,ss
He was born, he lived, he died a stakeholder.
ana IL is because he was stakeholder that his
lie was purer, his mind more free, his soul
more aspiring than ever was known in any
other great man. .5177'-'
How unfortunate that Washington should
have died in perfect oblviousness of the kew
to his greatness, the secret spring to his i'm
mortality, and blindly have blotted out, by the
manumission of his slaves, that which alone
made his soul more aspiring than that of any
other great man.
q The same paper. on the same 22d of Febru-
ary,-"give ear, ye Heavens, ns,"-rhapsodical
ly says: ...se,:g
To-day also is the 9Th anniversary of the in
auguratlOn of the"permament" government of
the late Confederate States of America-a ma
ton which, like dazzling meteor has illumin-
ated the political sky of this century and pas
sed from the glance of this world leaving be-
hind track of glory, halo of wisdom, states
manship, bravery and devotion-uneq,ialed in
the annals ofthe acorld
To-day, five years ago, the Honorable ,Jeffer-
son Davis was elected for six years the Presi
dent of that COnfederaey which. in its short
existence, has made for itself record which
future ages will contemplate with wonder and
admiration. ~
On this the anniversary of his election. we
cannot allow the memory of his devotion to
pass unnoticed, and avoid looking with bleed
ing heart upon the coincidence of a day which
has given birth to a hero, and raised a maytr
to the altar where he is to be inundated while
confessing the faith of which George Wash
ington has been the Prophet and the Apostle
The Louisville Journal, protessedly loyal
paper during the war, but signally needing
pardon for its reasonable course since peace |
succeeded the clash of arms, gently hints at |
resistance and another rebellion, aided by the
Executive, while discussing the prospects of |
the passage of the Reconstruction bill. 1t |
says:
"The people of the South, if wise and pru- |
dent, can live for a time under such damna- |
Bile tyranny this, but, if they consent to ii. |
they deserve it. They don't deserve it, and |