The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-14
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brigade" That brigade was composed of
men from the Granite Hills. They were
earpet-baggers; their "carpet bags were on
their backs and guns were on their shoul-
ueis Gen. Abbott represents small por-
non 0, the territory conquered by the bra
very Vi the soldiers who came with him. He
was VINO led the last charge upon Fort
flsher IN the darkness and Gloom of that
night OF January 18th. 1s65-wbieh gave
Sois enoush lor one man. Alter the close
OF hostilities General Abbott commenced ex-
tensiVe numbering operations near Whining
ton, having retired from public life TO the
woods of his adopted State, laboring to re-
suscitate the dead, dry bones of this land.
Too loyal, too valuable to remain in obscuri-
ty, the loyal people called to him to come out
and help them. We who are for the Union
and of the Union, welcome him; rebels hate
him now just as they did when he stood
against them in the fight. In point of in
tellect, sound judgment and common sense,
Gen. Joseph c. Abbott towers above any ma
tive representative we have ever yet had.
Rev. S. S. Ashley, elected Superintendent
of Public Instruction, came with the army
and was formerly citizen of Mass achusetts.
He too has a high and honorable record in
the past. The insinuations against his corps
OF teachers are but idle gossip. He came
here and found a wilderness of ignorance-no
schools, no books-in three years through the
agency of philanthropic societies and the as
sistance of the go7elnment, he has expended
more than $4,000, and brought the school
system to very high degree of merit. He
has done more for the cause of education in
North Carolina in three years than every 9TH
er citizen in the State.
In 1860 this S ate had IS 900 white adults
over twenty years of age who could neither
read nor write. During the war this num-
Der was much increased. Now add the en-
franchised blacks, and make up your mind
what the people of Maine would say to that
condition of things in their State. 4 la
In regard to the coored population I ven
ture to say, there is not population ON the
globe, consisting OF equal numbers, subjected
to the same trials of change which, would
have behaved better. Public records show
LuiS. Lucy uGCu uO uOiCuoC hOh LuOu
friends.
"Cape Fear" evidently is dissatisfied with
the financial situation. think it is an ac-
cepted fact that money goes where the best
security is offered, and where the best interest
is paid. 1t is evident this is not such local
ity. "Cape Fear" can congratulate himself
upon the fact, however, that since this "ter-
rible state of affairs, the advent OF the Re-
publican party to power, North Carolina
bonds have reached 46, nearly double their
value under Rebel Democracy.
Now sir, whatever may be the grumbling
over the present state of things by the oppo-
sition to the Republican party. l, as loyal
man say they are satisfactory. No man suf-
fers, nor is he deprived of his rights, except
for crime Some few are disfranchised for
participation in the rebellion, a very slight
punishment for such a crime. No man is IN
terlered with in his goings or his comings.
We are free enough. Ii these Rebels would
only look into the past, al the damnable des-
potism reigning here during the war they
should it seems to me, thank God for their
defeat. You have no doubt read over the
doings of those years when men walked about
loaded down with papers to exempt them
from the conscription, time when no obi
cations, no tears, no mercy could reach the
leaders of this terrible olgarchv. Talk of op-
preston! Compare the present with the
pastl r'fiv ...s s... F.. ...5
Representing the feelings of our Union
men, 1 say to you of the North, remember to
whom you listen, when the syren song is
sung TO YOU. of peace and good will, by Rebels
who would hold you in unutterable contempt,
but for the assistance you can give them to
gain power. Remember the bloody paths
you people trod to peace. Remember that
along this Southern land, "on every hill top
and in every valley the grass waves green
over the graves of your fallen patriots, and
from every hilltop and from every valley the
voices Of the glorious dead, call upon goa to
came out ami strike for the Union,7 for GOD
and the right. A NORTH CARoLINIAN.