The Portland daily press., 1867-06-07

of the rebel States," and also the act supple
mentary thereto. They have organized
Union Republication Association and have
large and united organiztdion they will vote TO
man for Union, Radical Republican princi-
Piles. They have no confidence in any man
that ever held slave property; they say give us
an out and out yankee man" and if asked if
they don't believe in Southern Union sm they
shake their heads and say, Eve have had an
example in one who promised to be our Moses;
we don't want to try any more Of themi give
US 1had Steoens and Ben Butler, kase ace likes
de nneu deg buses de pust"
Great anxiety is manifested by all classes in
reference re to the coming registration Of voters.
Ines are besieging the Office of Capt. Mac
~ MY the President OF the Board of Registra-
tloh mere TO know when he will commence
ihe oap'aih tells them due notice will be Civ
en- as soon DIS instructions are received from
General Schoneid, commanding the First Mil
itary District. No candidates are as vet an
nounced for the convention. A call has been
issued by the Hon. John Minor Bolts. VIM. G.
Reeves and other prominent Union men of the
State for a convention to meet at Charlottes-
vile, Va, on the 4th of July next the object of
which is to unite the colored and white (Whig)
vote upon one common platform against tho
Democrats; but the colored men are lit
timid about going into convention with them,
and will not do so unless the Wings will en-
dorse their platform as planned at their con-
vention held at Richmond April 18th.
Hon. j. Minor Bolts lives about four miles
from this place and has splendid estate of
about 1000 acres. He says it will require tre-
mendous effort to carry the State against the
miserable Democrats. He will exert all the
influence he can command to bring white and
black together for that purpose, and has writ
ten letter to the Union Republicans and
wings of the State urging them to meet at
Charlottesville. God grant that his efforts may
be successful and that the fossilzed remains
of the Democratic party may be buried as deep
in this State as in the old Pine Tree State;
then and not until then will Virginia enter up
on a career of prosperity hitherto unknown to
her, and the last traces of slavery will be obit-
Grated from her escHtcheon. Then will Union
ism be made respectable where now it is not
and the enterprising Yankee will come here in
this delightful climate and make Virginia
what it ought to have been long ago, the fore
most State in our glorious Union.
The unreconstructed are trembling in their
shoes now for fear of confiscation. They re-
member Thad Stevens's declaration, that he
intended "to spend the remainder of his days"
in advocacy of the principles set forth in his
Corfiscation bill Their horror Of negro suf-
frage has been obliterated from their memory.
The rebels now pretend to revere the name OF
Greeley and say, IF the Northern people would
be as magnanimous as he has been there would
be no trouble" As 1 walk through the Ma
tional Cemetery here and read the names of
those that have died that the nation might live
and as l think of these men who fell by the
hands of those who were marshalled in arms
against our dear old Union, by this fiend in
human shape who starved our soldiers in the
prison pens of the South, my blood boils with
in me to think that man who claims to be an
American should be found who wss willing to
insult the memory of these fallen ones by u.s.
ing his influence to relieve murderer from
the punishment which was too good for him
within the walls of Fortress Monroe. Would
Mr.. Greeley have been willing to have done for
Booth or WIrz what he has done for the dis
tinguished "state prisoner?" 1 think not; they
were not so distinguished as the arch traitor.
They never murdered so many of the loyal
men of our country as he.
lam soldier of the United States army
fought in the late war that the integrity
of my country might be preserved, and while
upon the bloody field of Fredericksburg in the
line of duty sacrificed my good right arm. I did
it because 1 loved my country. II did it be-
cause expected that the honor of my coun-
try was to be vindicated and treason made for
erer odious. But what do see now? l see
the greatest criminal the sun ever shone upon
granted the privilege Of breathing the free air
of heaven; free once more to plot treason and
murder; basking in the presence of his friends
at Niagara Falls feted and fawned upon by
such fools as we have already seen rushing to
the arms of this viper to congratulate him up
on his release from long and acearisonae con-
fnement. BAIL cannot dwell upon this mat
ter. 1t is too revolving to the sense of an
American soldier. have only to say, in the
| name OF humanity and in the name of the 10y
| al people of the country and the noble soldiers
| who persisted in the cause of civil and reli-
| gious liberty, that the nation has been dishon-
ored and insulted by the late farce at Rich
| mond Treason is now looked upon here as a
| Respectable p2Stllue AMI y HlOH mcu as tyHaHso
| for not having let the South have her inde-
| pendence. This is fine commentary on my
| policy" The loyal millions now look to Con-
gress for relief from this stigma. We who
fought the rebellion to its bitter end demand
that the principles that should have been car
ried out at that time be now applied to these
rebel communities. We want to see the hon
or of the nation sindicated. We want to sec
the States of Maryland Delaware and Ken
tucky relieved from rebel rule. We want M
compromise with treason. In fine, we want :
President who will see that the laws of Con
gress are. faithfully executed, and one, too
who will be found ready to punish leading
traitors instead of keeping them at govern
I II expense two years, and then saying "th'
mt is not ready to try them.
am encroaching upon you
nu' l rear Ill close with promise, I
spaoo' 'ne'eioie W -sionally write you o
| agreeable, that L will occa. g this state
| the doings of the Republicans o.
| With you fo- the Union, at Gl
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