The Portland daily press., 1868-08-18
No Food for Lau ghter.


ed. The Radicals, especially improve the OPP
portunity afforded them by the nomination Of
Seymour and Blair to make an infinite num-
Der OF humorous hits. This is all very well SO
long as attention is not diverted from the aw
full peril to which the peace of the country is
exposed from the new firing of the Southern
heart by the New York Convention. Exam.
inc attentvely the following significant para
graph from the Macon (Ga.) Times and Senti-
nal, and it will require one of the most HUI
morous cartoons ever published in Punch to
remove the impre ssion made by the revival Of
the spirit OF 1850: sz fsE
There is real danger. The air is full of it
1t is manifest everywhere. The people are be-
coming familiar with it; and this is the most
alarming feature of all. The danger of a
bloody conflict was not so great ON the LIST day
of January, 1861, as it is to-day. No speech is
delivered in any State of the Union that does
not breathe,-on the part OF the Radicals de-
termination to push forward to success the
revolution they have inaugurated,-on the
part OF the Democrats fixed purpose to res
cue the Constitution from the hands of its as
sassins and to rescue the Government of oul
fathers though resort to arms be necessary.
AND everywhere preparations, more or less
public, are being made for the final struggle
The people OF the South want peace. foi
four years they fought and suffered IN penall
of the Constitution, for cause IN which the
people of all the States had as deep an interest
as themselves. The Radical leaders, however
have the cunning of devils; and as they uni.
ted the people of the North against the South
in 1861 by forcing the Confederates to fire the
first gun at Sumter, so now they hope to unite
the same people around their revolutionary
standard by forcing the ex-Confederate cit
zens OF the United States to bloody resistance
of intolerable outrages .. w.
Let us defeat the Vaccinations of such rev
olutionary emissaries and tools as Brownlow
Brown, Coon, Morse, and other paid instru
ments OF faction among us, by our iOrbearance
by FoRBEARANCE UNTIL AFTER THE PREsI
DENTAL ELECTIoN-by forbearance until the
Northern people shall be driven to resistance
or the last hope of deliverance from any Other
source than ourselves shall lave passed.
Was the tone of the Southern press more
rebellious than this in 1860? But there are
even holder utterances. Take this, printed
every morning at the head of the editorial col
vmn of Texas paper: .E t,,,f ...
The Stars, Bars, and Ultra Ku Klux,
Long may they wave
Ger the white mans home
D 't And the nigger's grave. y-l
The editor sings this every day and adds
GAS long as God in his wisdom lets us remain
on earth, we never expect to recognize man
as gentleman that don't sing it, We are
white man, we are" dF ss8 ss O.. ff.
II this is not enough here is another para
graph in regard to General N. B. Forrest, who
certainly has a claim to speak for the party
that honored him SO heartily at New York Il
is from report of his speech at arecent meet
ing of Rebels in Tennessee. -d jgst
General N. B. Forrest was called for and
cheered most enthusiastically. The Memphis
Post says he claimed that he wanted peace
He had been to Nashville to make arrange
ments to secure peace. He had letters from
there, however, which indicated that the mill
tia law would surely pass. Troops would be
called out. He was confident, too, that they
would be backed by the Federal forces. Pres
ident johnson, notwithstanding all he and
others had done to crafty bis pride in the Ma
tional Convention, had gone back upon the
Democracy. He did not look for any help
from him, but it mattered not how many were
arrayed against him and his old comrades H
liked peace, but if any of them were shot
down, as he expected they would be, he would
toot his horn. He knew that his old troops
would answer, as they had always done. He
babe them arm themselves and be ready
They were already drilled and needed no
drilling. If the fight opened, it would not be
troops in line of battle confronting each other,
Dut clJlZen against cltlzen. lie SnOuiu 0e an
Jd0or Of giving no quarter. .e
Consider the enormity of this butcher s
proposition. The Rebels of Tennessee, as is
is well known, are ripe for revolt against the
State government To counterfeit this move
ment the Governor has been authorized to call
out the militia. Forrest says that if these
troops are used he shall be in favor of repeat
ing Fort Pillow-of giving no quarter He
presents this as an alternative-give up the
State government of Tennessee quietly into
Rebel hands, or will re-organize my army o.
eut-throats and exterminate you. Unlike the
Mobile paper from which we have quoted he
would not exercise forbearance even till qtte,
election. He is of Blair's way of thinking
and would proceed at once to disperse the
carpet-baggers by force. t,,......
To complete this picture of the Southern
situation and to show how many followers
Blair has in the South it is only necessary to
add the following extract from letter pub
lished in a Connecticut paper by 7. L. Con
way, Superintendent of Public Education in
Louisiana: g
Throughout the northern and northwestern
portion of this State, there exists practical
system of rebellion against the State and Fed
eral Governments. Assassination and murder
are the order of the day. The Kuklux Klans
have taken possession of the country, and 10y
al whites and blacks are running for their
lives. L have just seen another of the thou
sands of letters we receive each day, bearing
the tidings OF the assassination of leading I'm
ion men. This one came to the Hon. John
Lynch, Senator faom the parish of Carroll
and bears the sad tidings of the murder, re-
Gently, of two loyal preachers, and of the flight
of large number of men, women and chill
dren from their homes for places of security
elsewhere. I .les1- sl sae ff
In the parishes of Tensas, Morehouse, Sa-
bine, De Soto, Caddo, East Baton Rouge, St
Martins, Franklin and Carroll the people
seem to be worse by far than they were before
or during the war. Northern white men are
driven away from their homes in many in
stances, while in others they are set upon, cut
and MANNED, and allowed to leave oniy with
life enough left to enable them to get away
We are in a bad situation, surely, for it would
seem as if the devil himself had taken posse s.
sion of the old rebels, causing them to do
things of which he h,mseli would be ashamed.
1t is no longer doubtful matter that the
whole thing is planned in New Orleans, in the
headquarters of the Kuklux, and in the S tar
Council of Seven. The Kuklux in this State,
is the handspring of the Democratic party. 1t
is the engine by which that party expects to
succeed, if such a thing is possible. ,.
Since the nomination of Seymour and the
publication of Blair's revolutionary letter,
these bad men who constitute this Khan, seem
to be moved by spirit ten times worse than
that which possessed them before the nominal
ton or during the war; They now believe
that to secceed in beating Grant means the
success of the South against the North, the
triumph of their notion of a white mans gov
eminent, down with thy niger, away with
Northern men, &C. laAa g..
We cannot live here--nO Union man can-if
Seymour should be elected, and of course DO
Northern man would come here afterwards for
even Northern Copperheads love a peaceful
country; and, as matter of course, they could
not think of coming down this way any more
than Republicans could. I'd
That Seymour is every whit as good a man
as JEFF. Davis is generally believed by the
rebels down here, and that he would, if elect
ed, aid in crushing the carpet. baggers and
ringers" is an idea that warns every true
Southern heart.
The men who participated in the massacre
of the Both of July, 1866 are out every night,
yelling for Seymour. They seem to love him
for his defence of their friends, the New York
rioters, in 1868. l.
Every rebel, every Thug, every assassin, ev
cry Democrat in this State goes for Seymour.
General Hood, General Beauregard, and Gen
Harry Hayes are all strong Seymo men.
Gen. Grant Not n Cotton Spectator,
A Republican who allows himself to be non
plussed by Rebel and Copperhead ISLANDERS O
tho at 70 m bn 10 to ba o,,r ,avt pyoe