The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-10-26

Nv Southern Democratie fTienu - w" - 49, -
greeted me in a way whlch M, sa1 I;ndnsSs The
get to nv dying day. Inc klnoness, !ne
warmth the consideration, the ardor whicn
they showed in welcoming any Northerher, es-
peciaIly from Massachusetts VINO would go
down there and say TO then KIND word, who
Svonld moi treat them like boys, and call them
Rebels. traitors miserable rascals, or villains;
went deep to my heart.-John Quincy Adoms
Thus j. @. A. to the citizens of Weymouth,
after his return from South Carolina. This
gentleman has been treated with great respect
even by the Republican press, because resting
Secure behind the protection of aristocratic
blood" and national reputation he has
spoken words in the presence of fire-eaters tnat
others dare not utter We cannot snare III
this feeling of respect for young Adams,
though honestly desiring to take candid ana
unprecedented view of his work. Our admlra-
ton for him is qualified not by the suspicion
but by the absolute certainty that the words
above quoted and much else he has spoken at
home and in the South are calculated to con-
vey an impression as false as false can be- The
fact, resting upon authority better than that
of gentleman who spent one autumn holiday
at Columbia and another at Charleston, is that
MURDER stalks abroad through the State of
eSoutu SdfOuud, every Ndy stiih'hS No"H SAASS~
who are true to the flag Of their country.
He will never forget to his dying day "the
Kindness of his Southern Democratic friends!'
There are certain others hundreds of others
who will not soon forget the devilish maligni'
" of those friends of his, since their fathers,
their husbands and their sons sleep their last
sleep, sent untimely from the world by Rebel
rifle, dagger and pistol bullet.
81 But few DAYS ago we published extracts
from proclamation of Gov. Scott of South
Carolina in which he says that reports are
Daily received by him that "the laws are vio-
lated and set at defiance; that peaceful and ura-
offending c.tizens ARE MURDERED IN COLD
BLOOD, and the nurderers are not only permit
ted but are AIDED TO ESCAPE; that families
Aave been forced to abandon their homes aud
property by fear of violence; that the authority
Of the State government is openly derided, and
that threats of violence and of death are utter
ed against prominent members Of the Repub
lean party ii they shall attempt to visit their
districts for the purpose of discussing the po-
litical questions of the day; that declarations
are openly made by persons calling them
selves D, mocIats of their determination not
to permit their political opponents to vote at
the ensuing election; and to enable them to
effect their purposes and overawe the people
. large quantities of firearms of the most APP.
proved descriptions have been brought into
the State and secretly distributed; that the
public highways are pieketed and patrolled by
armed men who stop and interrogate passen-
gers, and frequently abusing and insulting
those who differ with them politically; and es-
peciSly is there an apparent syste matte efforI
3 by abuse and intimidation to deter colored
persons from the exercise of the elective fran
chise" l - a--. -....
Remember that the author of this document
is the Governor of the State, who instead OF
making transient visit there, is a resident Of
the State and is especially charged with the
administration OF the laws.
But these facts do not rest for authentica-
tion upon The testimony of Gov. Scott alone.
Judge Hoge arrived in Washington on We'd
nesday of last week for the purpose of inform
ing the Secretary of War that in certain local
tiles in South Carolina the condition of affairs
borders upon insurrectio1a. FIFTEEN OR TWEEN
TY MURDERS DAY are committed in the wes-
tern part If the State This gentleman him
self witnessed the murder of Randolph, one of
the most accomplished colored gentleman in
the State and one of the most blameiess. whose
only offence was that he was a Republican
Senator. He himself only escaped with his
life by walking % miles through a pelting
rain. He presented to the Secretary of War
an official list of twenty three Union men kill
ed in the State by Rebels within few days.
o the boundless, the unutterable infamy of
this same respectable" and "high- toned"
"pure- FLOODED" Massachusetts, aristocrat, who
comes home from the great slaughter pen of
the South deprecating to his fellow citizens
the practice of simply calling his hospitable
friends, 'assassns," williams" and ''rascals"
while they every day wash their hands with
impunity in loyal blood! Deep to his heart"
went 1.-THE kindness, the warmth, the consider
alton, the ardor, they showed in welcoming
him, their plant tool; "deep to the hearts"
too, OF Union men their bowie-k knives were
that very day plunged!
Out upon thee, john Quincy Adams! "Sck-
1y sentimeutality" is no new think, tut your
sentimentality is deadly, cruel, Implying,
false. 1t is like Thernardiers in Les Miserables,
who wept burning tears over the fictitious sor-
rows of the be1oines of romance, while prey
ing with unfinching cruelty upon the poor
who tell into their hands. Enough of eulogv of
the younger Adams" The facts he has Civ
en- are lies His picture of the South is false.
His South Carolina friends are nurderers.