The Portland daily press., 1868-01-30

Dare 20 be true; nothing can need a lie;
A fault which needs it most grows two thereby.

a Iauit which needs 1t most grows two thereby.
just put in 125 negro children in every Sab
bath school in the North where there are 100
white children, or twenty-five negro pupils in
to evory school district of Maine where there
sGe twenty white pupils; put, if you please,
5000 negroes into Machias, 1000 into Eastport,
5000 into Calais, 800 into Cherryfield and SO
on all through Washington County, have them
IN your barns, your sheds, stealing your pigs
your poultry, abusing your children ravishing
your women, and, to add to the terrors of your
situation, have regiments of soldiers, and
companies OF soldiers under the command of
negro wOrshiping officers, to compel YOU and
your neighbors to submit TO negro insolence
plumber and robbery, and you would have Just
what the white people OF the South have to-
day.-Machids Onion.
Ex-Governor Brown of Georgia, whose
knowledge of the state of things at the South
is derived from the. evidence of his own eyes
and not from the columns of Democratic pa
pers, says, "The people North have been told
lately that the acts of Congress establish neg
supremacy and white subordination at the
South. The charge is false"
The people should mistrust this haau Grant
His duplicity to the President was dishonora-
BILE. HIS silence aud non-committalism are
suspicious. No well meaning man, no gener-
Gus man, no philanthropist no statesman, no
truly great man is merely silent statue
Plotters, conspirators, designing men, ambi-
tiOus men, keep their lips carefully sealed. If
Grant is made Dictator over the States of the
Union, he will be near enough to national
dictatorship to grasp it at favorable moment
1t is fearful temptation to put in the way of
a man, and that man a soldier, reserved, silent
watehful, with friends in Congress, a Congress
that is executive and judiciary combined Bet
fast Journal. TIA
If the condition Of the United States were
like that of Rome in Csesar's time, or England
in Cromwell's, or France in the first Napo-
Icons, there might be some reason to dread
military usurpation. As there is no such like
ness in our present condition, this bugbear of
European tradition may be dismissed. ITO
object to soldier simply as a soldier" says
the New York Nation, sis like the old lady's
objection to having gun handled, though she
was assured it was Lot loaded. Loaded orlnot
loaded said she, it might go off,"
Some few people are getting sick Of the pres
ent state of affairs and are beginning to RIGHT
fully comprehend the situation; and amony
these is hitherto prominent Republican. one.
of the wealthiest and most extensive manufac-
turers in the West, who has lately cut loose
from the Radical gang, with whom he has been
associated, and come out in letter full of
meaning to every business man and TAXPAYER
in the nation. We speak of Hon. Il. b. Ward,
President of the American Iron and Steel As
ISOLATION. Let every reader OF the Democrat
carefully peruse the following communication.
Read 1t and show it to your Republican neigh
bors-show it to everybody.-Maine Democrat
The Democrat in copying the letter Of this
prominent Republican who has lately cut looss
from the Radical gang, carefully omits the fol-
lowing striking sentences: SHOULD this gov
eminent pass wholly into the hands of its
enemies, no one can predict the humliating
troubles and disasters yet in store for its earn
est friends. But a FESTIVE people,, suffering
under present evils, may be led to commit the
destinies of the country TO those ,chose hands
are yet stained nth our blood and whose his
tory shows that no barriers that laws or cons
titutions present win deter them from accom-
plisbing the behests of their leaders" ..
The conspirators in Congress say they shall
take no step backward. Well, let them step
forward and step quick and step long and step
often. He'll is but q short distance ahead of
them Maine Standard
Possibly this is not fiction. The Republi-
can majority in Congress is after the minority,
and in a flgurative way it may be perfectly
correct to say that "Hell is but a short dis
lance ahead OF them"