The Portland daily press., 1868-09-12
ptJIsbat,,y Compelled to get
Certificates of gOuUltu.

4 No man with such a record as e. F. Pills
bury ever came before a people as candidate
for a high office without being treated with
more severity than be has been. He has been
attacked, to be sure, and vigorously, but the
only weapons used have been those furnished
by himselfin his own journal, the Pennington
Patriot, and in his speeches. This immunity
from attack is probably due to feeling of
pity that the people have for gentleman OF
estlmable private character who had the mis-
fortune to be led by his political associations
to take sides with the enemies of his country
IN the time when all patriots came to its de-
fence.
Mr.. Pillsbury is well aware that his record
Will not bear examination, and consequently
he ALWAYS waits till election day is just at
hand before denying the charges in this behalf
preferred against him. IN this weeks STAN
dard. he publishes card from j. ID. Lake,
who saws that during the war he was resi-
dent of New Vineyard in Franklin county
and that he knows that Pillsbury was loyal at
that time. j. w. Lake certifes that J. d.
Lake tells the truth. But who shall perform
the like kind service for j. W.? Who shall
certify that he tells the truth? Isn't there
another brother in the Lake family who can
vouch for hin,p
This is simply pitiful, Mr. Pillsbury, that
you should be driven to import two unknown
individuals from Franklin county, to inveigle
them into your office at Augusta on the eve OF
election, and there induce them to put their
signatures to a certificate of loyalty. Imag-
inc GEN. CHAMBERLAIN doing that thing! I'm
agine the man who received the surrender of
Lee resting his claims to respect upon the GER
tificate of two obscure individuals in BruHs-
wick! But PIllsbury's political leader, Sey
mour, has been compelled to do the same
thing He and his friends searched high and
low for evidence to show that he was not a
traitor in 1863 Fancy Gen. Grant doing that
thingl 100 .s- 4
1t is certainly a misfortune for any man that
there should be so much obscurity resting up
on his conduct during the war that he needs
TO prove what it was. But Pillsbury's misfor-
tune is of far more serious nature There is
no obscuriiy whatever about his case. Let
his own words and acts speak for him.
He opposed the draft, necessary to give rein
forcements to our almost dsheartened soldiers
III Cne Helu as an ONCONOII " HUN AL
LAW OF ABRAHAM THE FIRST" --
1t was in consequence of his incendiary edi-
torials and harangues on this subject that in
July, 1868. occurred at Kingfeld, Franklin
county, Pillsbury's birth place, where his in
fuence was more powerfully felt than any
where else in the State, THE ONLY VIO-
LENT RESISTANCE TO THE LAWS
THAT DISGRACED THE STATE DUR
ING THE WAR ........-...
Ii all had supported the army in this way,
which side would have surrendered in 1865?
What does the certificate OF the bucolic j. d.
and j. w. avail in answer to these facts?
Mr.. Pillsbury cannot escape by alleging
that he merely opposed particular method
employed by the administration in prosecu-
ton of the war, tor in the fall of 1868 when
Lincoln called for 300, 900 uolanteers, he advised
his friends not to answer it, saying: "LET
THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE POLICY
(of the administrator ANSWER THIS
CALL FOR MORE MEN" .. .... ....
AT the same time he spoke of the war as
1.-THE WAR FARCE"
A year and a BALI before Lincolns term ex-
pired, Pilsbury called upon the people to
"TURN OUT THE LAZY INCOMPE-
TENTS" This meant a counter revolution at
at the North, for there was no election pending.
How many warriors of this kind would it
take TO suppress a rebellion? Whom did these
words encourage, Jefferson Davis or Abraham
Lincoln?
In March, 1868, Mr.. Pillsbury declared in
his paper that the GOVERNMENT HAD
BECOME A MASS OF RUINS AND HAD
VIRTUALLY CEASED TO EXIST" M
Was this the faith of a prtriot OF the wish of
a Rebel sympathizer?
All the little stabs at has country in the per-
son of those ON whom its safety depended we
pass over in silent contempt, only giving as an
example Mr.. Pillsbury's representation of Lin
coin as "a cross between an Andausian jack
and a sand-hiIl crane" The Rebel leaders are
spoken of in Mr. Pillsburys paper with uni
form respect.
The Lakes cannot save you, Mr.. Pillsbury,
nor can cords of certificates of loyalty, for
your ocn acords, taken from your o,on paper,
give them all the lie. God help the man whose
course was such during time of supreme
peril TO his country that he can only contra
dict a charge of sympathlzing with Rebels,
PROVED BY HIS OWN WORDS, by
weak certificate of two men whom no one
knows!