The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-10-15

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Eneas ULYSSES mot Hiram Simpson SAM
and Petrarcb visited the internal regions,
Gnlliver went TO Liliput and Brobdignag,
Livingston to Central Africa, George Francis
Train and Howard, the Pbilanthropist, to a
good many reformatory institutions in Eu-
rope, Mahomet 10 an incredible number of
heavens, and John Quincy Adams to South
Carolina. Among all these tourists the last
bids fair to create the greatest sensation, but
whether anybody will "do" him in an epic is
as yet uncertain. Nasty might do that little
piece of embalming perhaps, in his unmetri-
cal, geographical way, but the undertaking is
enough to daunt even him.
Petrarch had Beatrice and Telemachus a
Mentor in their respective wande .ings-John
Quincy Adams, it is very plain, has no judi
cious guide, male or female. The descendant
of such ancestors as he ought to know better
than to suppose that he can blind Northern
eyes by touching up the old Philadelphia Con-
vention drama and throwing himself into the
arms of Hampton and Governor Vance. 1t
won't do at ALL The sentimental drama has
been tried before as a political agency, and
has failed.
The thing Mr.. Adams attempts to do is
this: He would satisfy the people of the
North that the Southern fre-eater is harm
less animal after all-that you may 90 into his
domains, seize him by the mane thrust your
arm down his throat and even twist his tail
without making the placid beast so much as
roar. He would have it appear that Hampton
is better patriot than Sumner, that Vance
loves the Union better than Grant and that
the most beautiful models of fervent loyalty
are TO be found South of Mason and Dixon's
line among the ex-Confederates. --
. He first bearded the lion at Salisbury North
Carolina, where he asked of Vance and other
leaders who were present on the platform, ar
answer to the following questions Do you
give up slavery? Do you give up secession?
Will you welcome Northern emigrants and
give them fair chance here? Will you give
the negro his just rights? To all this Vance
g. Co., answered in the affir native The lion
roared not at all though subject to unwonted
indignities At Columbia, South Carolina,
the other day Mr.. Adams applied the crucial
test and twisted the lions tail thus .I
The North is determined to retain and es-
tablish these general principles, and all loei-
cal and necessary Consequences first, utter re-
nunciation of the doctrine of secession; second
the entire extirpation of slavery; third, a fair
and unhampered career for the freedmen:
fourth, the equal rights of every citizen of the
United States to travel, speak and live in any
State so long as he doesn't infringe on the
rights of others. The great desideratum, there
lore, for return to constitutional privileges
for the South are. first, to deserve; second to
obtain the confidence of the North in her pro-
LESSONS OF acquieScence in these results of war
Mr. Adams urges the South to wait calmly
and labor honestly and heartily for redemp
ton, and their reward will certainly come.
Well done! That was bravely spokep.
John Quincy can do these things, beyond
question. But the trouble is that not one
man in thousand can The secession lead
ers are treacherous fellows who have a certain
use to make Of him. He is political capital
They will not harm hair of his head. Their
claws are studously concealed from his gaze.
They expect him to tell pretty. winning stor-
les of them at the North. But how many
more times are we to be deceived by the spec
ious appearances put on by the Southern
leaders in the presence of official or semi-ofi-
cial visitors from the North? Everybody
knows how nicely the scholars appear and
how thoroughly they have their lessons when
there is seasonabe notice that ''the committee
oho coluiuS H. w HeH Tue great committee
man, Grant, went South in 1865, he found that
everything promised peace and that slavery was
abandoned" The next thing we heard was
the passage of the vagrant laws which remit
ted the black race to slavery in a modified
form. The Philadelphia Convention of 1866
was another exhibition of the tame lion, vet
the New Orleans massacre showed thai he was
subject to serious and very dangerous lapses.
Gen. Howard has just returned from tour
through the South and reports that he was
everywhere treated with proper respect. Yet
we have the massacres at Camilla, at
New Orleans and at Opelousas As
for the safety of Northern men in the
South, happy dream that it is, there is certain
ly no hope of 1t except in the election of Grant
Tons of printed matter could be made of recent
speeches and editorials in which all the tor
ments of the Inferno are denounced against
Northern emigrants so soon as Seymour can
interpose his shield between the perpetrators
of murderous outrages and the vengeance of
the government "The best of motives" may
unquestionably be conceded to the pilgrim
from Massachusetts, but his little preconcerted
exhibitions can have no more effect in the face
ofithe immense induction of facts which the
people have made, than did the march of poor
Sergeant Bates with his flag.