The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-19
The Jacobites Convicted by their own
Words.

| Radical intolerance is cropping out in one OF
ITS old and wellknown forms at Biddeford.
Me-, where, as the Portland Argus says, Mr..
McMullen, agent of the Saco Water Power
| Company, declares his intention of discharg-
| ing from his employ every man who voted
| against the Radical candidate for Congress.
| There is something peculiarly abominable in
| this style of coercion which disgusts every one
| possessed of the spirit of a freeman.-Boston
| Post.
In the first place there is not, we are assured,
single word a truth in the story about Mr.. Nc
Mullen. He never dreamed Of making any
declaration of the kind referred to. The Post
says that there is something peculiarly abom-
Unable in this style of coercion which disgusts
every one possessed of the spirit of freeman
We are very glad to have this admission.
Certainly nothing can be more outrageous
than such coercion and it is most gratifying to
us to know that no such monster as McMullen
is falsely represented to be exists in the Re-
publican ranks. OF the Irishmen who are
employed in this city of Portland large pro-
portion are hired by Republicans, yet no CO.
ercive influence is exercised over them beyond
giving their children an education and appeal
ing, usually in vain, to their sense Of justice in
behalf of the down-trodden laborers, black and
white, at the South.
Now, Messrs. Post and Argus, we have got
you ION the hip" We have your recorded
condemnation OF that tyrannical spirit that
takes advantage of mere superiority in the
matter of wealth to coerce freemen to pursue q
| particular line of conduct in politics. Out of
| your own mouth you and your party shall be
| condemned to eternal infamy. In the ten
States of Virginia, North and South Carolina
| Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louis.
lana, Arkansas and Texas, the Democrats, who
are all Rebels, do nothing else at this time than
threaten free laborers ,oih loss Of employment u
they uote the Radical ticket Hampton, Cobb
Semmes, Wise, Toombs, Pike, Vance and hun
dreds of others are on record declaring that nc
freedman who votes the Radical ticket shall
receive employment or bread. The Mississippi
election was carried against reconstruction in
this wav.
But the case is yet stronger; the Democrats
of the South not only threaten to deprive free
laborers at the South of employment for voting
independently, but they do it. Thousands were
deprived of means of living after the elections
in Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and
the other States. This was not only peculiarly
abominable," but it involved the laborer North
as well as South, 1t increased the expenses
of the Freedmen's Bureau, which is supported
by taxation of Northern men.
But we have not yet done; the case
is yet stronger. ~he Democrats of
the South not only deprive free laborers of
employments on account Of their political
opinions, but they kill them at the rate of $50
in sir aCeeks in a Sip0le State
Nor is the case against you yet completed,
Messrs. Post and Argus. We have evidence
enough to hang you in any court in Christen-
dom. Pray tell us what you mean by "carpet.
6dggers'' Will you profess to mean anything
else than men who remove from one country
TO another and who are possessed of snail
Wortdty means? Pure minded, disinterested ad
vocates of the rights of laboring men that you
are, does not every Southern Democratic pa.
per that issues from the press and every South
ern Democratic orator that mounts the stump
swear that Democratic triumph shall result
in the immediate expulsion of every one ol
these men not only from the voting precincts
but from the South? These are for the most part
Union soldiers who have made their homes in
the South, but they are men of small capital
carpet-baggers"-and they are to be, as q
Shreveport lawyer expresses it, hunted from
the country" Albert Pike says in the Mem
pbis Appeal that the Susquehanna and the
Ohio shall be like rivers of fire" which no
"Northern Hun" shall cross and live. You,
Messrs Argus and Post, fully endorse this
prescription of laboring men and of emigrants
by your gleeful adoption and constant use OF
! the word "carpet Dagger" And you pretend
to be the vindicator of the poor man and of the
foreign emigrant! You, who approve the
| prescription and slaughter of laborers who
differ from those at the North only in being
| infinitely poorer, more helpless and more de.
pendent upon their employees You who en-
| courage crusade against men who merely
change their residence from one part of the
country to another! Be careful, gentlemen
tread softly and speak low, or these foreign
emigranss will find you out; they will see how
insufferably and inexpressibly heartless, sell
fish and insincere is your pretended advocacy
of their rights. They will see that you are
ready-and you unquestionably are-tc
demand their disfrancsement and per
secution, as you demand the disfran
chisement and persecution of Southern labor
ers, the moment you are unable to contro