The Portland daily press., 1867-09-03

could not have sustained simultaneous at-
TACK Ia flank. IL the brigade had been roiled
back upon the line, the corps would have been
disorganized and the battle would have been
lost.
But the regiment did not crumble. For
more than two hours the men stood up to
their work, and at last, when their ammunl-
tion was exhausted, swept forward with fixed
bayonets, the right wing cutting off the re-
treat Of Lhe enemy, and The skirmishers who
had all this time been separated from tue reg
iment, pouring volley at the same time into
the rear of the disorsanized reLels. This
brilliant action put an end to the rebel as
sault in this part of the field. Nearly three
hundred prisoners were taken, twelve COM
missioned officers among them, and the frag
ment Of Hoods division which gathered al
ter the repulse took up position on the or
posite hill. At dusk Colonel Chamberlain
was ordered to advance and occupy Round
Top with his regiment. He led the assault
On loot, drove the enemy from the hill with
the oayonet alone, pushed his skrmishers
well down on the opposite side, and held the
position till morning. For this gallant action
he received the personal and official thanks of
his brigade, division and corps commanders,
and was warmly recommended by all his SUI
perior officers for promotion to the rank of
brigadier general. How that promotion H.
nally came to him, not by his own seeking, by
an order on the field recognizing his extra
ordinary gallantry at Petersburg, no citizen
of Maine needs to he told. No other State
shares this honor with us; no other soldier
has been promoted on the field; it is soli-
tary instance in the history Of our army.
On Saturday, July 18th, Colonel Chamber
lain at the head of his regiment was hang
ing on the rear OF the discounted and re-
treating enemy. On the same day, Mr.. Pills
bury, OF Pennington, was addressing the
Democratic clubs of Franklin county, in
geniously stimulating and prompting them to
that resistance to the laws which be was
careful not to offer himself playing upon
their prejudices and their fears, aiding the
Confederate cause to the extent of his ability
and daring. The next Monday the Demo-
cratic riot began in New York; Tuesday it
broke out in Portsmouth; and Wednesday in
Boston. Vallandigham issued his address to
the people of Ohio, from the Canadian side
of the Niagara river; Jefferson Davis on the
same day issued his proclamation calling ev-
cry white man in the Confederate States to
arms; and Franklin Pierce told the Demo
arats of Concord that the struggling govern
ment of the nation was a military usurpa-
ton, striking down the liberties of the peO-
pie and trampling on desecrated Constitu-
tion." The sinister. close of that Concord
speech is not to be forgotten. "You will take
care of yourselves" said the Ex-President
who in 1850 had assured Jefferson Davis that
the Northern Abolitionists "if we ever
reached the arbitrament Of arms, would find
occupation enough at home;' ''you will TAKE
care of yourselves, and with or without arms
with or without leaders, we will at least de-
fend our rights as free people" Mr.. Pills
bury, in his more limited sphere, was doing
the same work which Mr.. Pierce was doing
in New Hampshire. The riot OF Portsmouth
was repeated in Kingsfeld and Salem and
Freeman in this State, and was put down by
the armed hand of the government
Men of Maine, the Democratic party has
for the second time presented as its choice fol
the highest position in the State, this repre-
sentative of lis darkest political crime. Th'
Republican party has selected the representa-
tive of its purest patriotic devotion. Do no
fail to express your preference next Monday
Let us teach these Bourbons lesson in tn
choice Of candidates. You have condemned
this Pillsbnry once; let your second verdic
be so emphatic that they will not dare to pre-
sent his name q third time for your suffrages