The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-11-03
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From the Albany Evening Journal
RPjecIed-And Wbvs

To the Leaders of the Democratic Part,,
Your rejection by the people is decided and
emphatic. WhyF
You encouraged the South to initiate Sc
cession.
You assailed the first call for troops as un-
1oa refused to vote either men or money
to carry on the war.
peace.
You declared that if slavery must be de-
stioyed to gain the Union. then tbe Union
should perish. A' ''e" 'ne O"iou
lou ueclared your preference for the rebel
Constitution, as against our own
When II became apparent that to nroclain
universal liberty would weaken the enemy
and reward the true friends of the IInion'
you nevertheless opposed it.
You stouty contended that the rebellion
would never be suppressed, and triumphantly
quoted every reverse TO our arms as demon
strating it,
You urged the abandonment of the war,
and the reso" -.esotation for the best at
tainable T.
In our gloOuIiest days. and when no politi-
cal campaign was pending, you sought to in
name the passions of the people against the
only government we had, or could have.
You assailed President Lincoln as despot.
You denounced the government as revolu-
tioDary.
The Boys in Blue were termed by YOU Lin
coin hirelings and dogs.
You opposed allowing the men who were
periling their lives for our country, the enjoy
ment OF the elective franchise.
You opposed filliug up our armies by draft.
You melted riotous and bloody resistance
to the laws OF the land.
You pronounced the war a failure, and call
ed tor its abandonment
You urged the South to reject the most
magnanimous terms ever offered to conquered
rebels.
You passed laws imposing ON freemen the
most calling and unjust Determinations, in
the halls of justice, on the fields of labor, and
in the resorts of trade.
You would not allow man equal justice
betole the law, because servie blood flowed
in his VEINS be-
You would not permit man to control
his own labor, who had once been q slave, or
was the child of slave.
You would not allow man to dispose of
his own property ON equal terms with his
neighbor because his color differed.
You would sell the labor OF a eolored man
on the auction block, as punishment for not
working when you would not give him en-
ployment'
You "fired the Southern hearts" anew
against the loyal North.
You confer the highest honors on the
fiereest and most brutal of the Rebel Gener-
ais.
You falsely assail the Hero to whose ener-
gy, sagacity, bravery and skill, we owe the
existence of our country,as a"brutal butcher"
a miserable drunkard," a contemplate
liar" ''miscegenationist," and ''scoun-
drei"
The man most warmly welcomed by
in National
Butcher" Forrest-dishonored a flag of
truce, ard shot down his victims in cold
blood.
The pavements of New Orleans are stained
with the blood of the white and black victims
of your hellish malignity.
You have rejected every principle the
Democratic party formerly cherished.
You propose to trample into dust, by reyo-
lutionary means, the laws of Congress.
Riot, rapne and revolution are the weap-
ons with which you propose to overthrow all
opposition to your will
You trampled on the ballot box in 1860
and for five years thereafter, and you threat
en- to do it again
You boast that your triumph would be the
triumph of the "lost cause"
You avow policy of reputation.
You propose an irIedeemabe paper cur
rency.
the public debt.
You propose to tax "every species CT prop
erty" the poor man owns.
You turn out Inspectors of Election. forge
naturalization papers, and issue them crimi-
nally, and by violence seek to pervert the
voice of the people.
The fact that Republican meetinr is to be
held, in many of the States of the Union, is
deemed by you sufficient reason for shoot
inc HOWn thOca xuhn aftand
Southern Republican editors are none too
good for merciless castgation at your hand
and an excited people are murdered in their
fear.
Fort Pillow--New Orleans-C -Camilla-Ope-
lousas-these are your victories.
You court or crush the colored mar, Just
as he accepts or declines your offered politi-
cal alliance.
You turn into the streets to starve and die
every colored man who will not vote rebel
ticket.
Inc war was your war, begun by you, con-
Quoted by you, prolonged by you. Thousands
of homes in our land were desolated by you.
Hundreds of thousands of graves were dug by
you. Affliction, desolation. DEATH followed
in your train. Debt and Taxation are the
fruits of your treason.
Reconstruction has been delayed by you.
Y ou would have no reorganization that did
not place the old lash in your hands, and en-
able the masters to wreak vengeance on their
slaves.
The future you would give us is future of
terror. Civil war, business prostration and
oppressive taxation are all you offer us.
The past warns us of you. The grave holds
up its hands against you. The future i'm
plores to be saved fran you.
The People heed the supplicati IN, and
hence you are rejected.