The Portland daily press., 1868-08-10
Terms $500 per annuns, In adrance.

fully stndiad uiiy reau, anu sim Hore care-
We omit that portion Of the article which
s' " r'nsourys Completely with the King
heid riot, having on another occasion ex-
planned that epoch in his life at length
During the whole of the year 1892 Mr.
Pillsbury's assaults on the government wa,a
intensely bitter. The whole tendency of bis
editorial efforts was to bring the national ad
ministratIon into contempt and odium, and
to prevent the government raising men and
money to prosecute the war for the sup
preston OF The rebellion. Had Mr.. Pillsbury
s''odidered musket and joined the rebel
ranks, his influence would have been harm
less compared with that which he continually
exerted through the columns OF his paper.
When it was absolutely necessary tor the gov
ernment to raise men by drafting, Mr.. Pills
bury sought continually to paralyze ii
efforts. For instance, in his paper of Oct. %,
he writes as follows:
Another proclamation OF the President
will be found under the telegraphic head, cali
ing for 300 900 men in addition to those re-
quired under existing oIders. This Is
necessary measure under the present admir-
istration policy. LET THOSE WHO
BELIEVE IN THE POLICY redeem their
pledges anu answer this call for more men.
Those who did not believe in the policy Of
Mr.. Lincoln were thus urged not to support
the war. In another issue, referring to the
draft, Mr.. Pillsbury wrote thus menacingly:
The people have been patient, forbearing
and long suffering, but their patience Is
about toorn Out.
In another issue, just after the triumph of
Vicksburg, Mr.. Pillsbury wrote thus
This WAR FARCE is carried on unrelenting-
ly and Systematically, and the question Is re-
ciprocally one OF Life and Death.
That is, you have as much right to fight
against the government as the government
has 10 demand that you fight for it.
In another issue Mr.. Pilsbury wrote thus:
This conscription is a fair specimen of abo-
lition wisdom, and II the people do not TURN
OUT the CRAZY NCoMPETENTs, eonscription
after eonscription will come upon us.
The "cRAzY INCoMPETENTs" whom Mr..
Pillsbury urged the "PEoPLE" to "TURN
OUT" were Abraham Lincoln and his advis-
ers. The =" turning out" was of course to be
by violence, for no Presidential election was
to occur for nearly year and hall, and that
could not affect a conscription to take place
at the date OF Mr.. Pilsbury's writing.
In another issue Mr.. Pillsbury denounced
transcription" as a policy resorted to only
by monarchial governments" and whose ''ex-
ecution must be enforced by the iron hand of
military police"
This of course meant that the draft should
not be peacefully submitted to, but that " il
enforced" it must In Mr.. Pilsbury's judgment
be /" by the iron hand OF military power
With such teachings as these the wonder Is
that more Kingfield riots had not occurred
within the radius of Mr.. Pillsbury's influence
Not satisfied with doing all he could to
bring the draft into odium aud thus prevent
the Government getting MEN to recruit and
reinforce its armies, Mr.. Pillsbury continued
his assaults on that great and good man,
Abraham Lincoln, in the most indecent and
violent style. In one article he thus wrote:
Alas! that Lincoln had not been consigned
to infamy and forgetfulness before he succeed
ed in drenching the land in blood and con-
verting our free government into q military
despotism.
Not satisfied with this style of denuncia-
ton, Mr.. Pillsbury resorted to indecent RI
baldry, seeking in this way to bring Mr..
Lincoln into public contempt. Thus in one
OF his issues he wrete:- ...
Some one writing from Washington soon
after Lincoln arrived there IN his Scotch cap
and cloak, pronounced him a cross between
an "Andalusian Jack and sand hill crane"
We thought at the time it was harsh judg-
meht, but there was more truth than poetry
il the description, after ALL
In another issue, noticing the remark OF a
friend of Mr.. .Lincoln's that the illustrious
President wonld "shine brighter and brighter
in history" Mr.. Pillsbury published in the
Patriot that the eulogist must mean that
kind OF "shine" described once by John Ran
doIph, "where he shines and stinks and
stinks and shines like rJtten mackerel by
moonlight"
In his assaults on the public credit, depre-
ciating the greenback currency. Mr.. Pills
bury reached climax in his issue of Septem-
Der 25, 1858. The same paper contained an
account Of Rosecrans' defeat at Chickamauga
in which the worst phase was given TO the
Union side; it contained also an account Of
the sudden and alarming advance of gold p
New York, Of course involving q serious de-
rangement of Federal finances. Accompany,
ing these items of dispiriting news Mr.. Pills
bury published the following editorial article
IT our subscribers have any loose shinplas
| ters in their pockets we would remind them
| that we shall take such trash yet in payment
4 tot the Patriot. Better pass them while they
1 are good.
Bemember this was said Of the Legal Ten
der currency Of the government, on which
soldiers depended for their rations and the
Nation tor its Hfe. ...s ID. 1855 s,.
| Quotations, such IS are here given, might be
indefinitely multiplied. The whole record as
written by himself, is one of continuous ant
offensive disloyalty. Had the struggle for tn,
Union depended on such men as Eben p.
Piiisbury. the rebels would have had their own
way from the start, and our Government
would have been dismembered and destroyed
You may search his entire files for the war
and not one generous or patriotic expression
in support Of the Union can be found. Yol
will search equally in vain for one harsh wors
ofcondemnation of the rebels.
When our brave soldier at the front wer,
in imminent peril for want of reinforcements
Mr.. Pillsbury opposed and denounced all th'
measures adopted by the government to Sc
cure those reinforcements.
| When the pay Of the soldier ard the brea
of the soldiers wife and children depended o.
the value of Government currency Mr.. Pills
bury denounced that currency as "shin
plasters" and as "tyash," and applauded th
decision of a disloyal court that declared tf
Government had no righ: to issue such "lav
full money at all. fa2 ...
| Can any soldier or soldiers friend vote 70
Mr.. Pillsbury with this recordp
4 Can any loyal man vote for Mr.. Pillsbur
With this record?
| And sbese all, can any man who voted /.
that martyred patriot, Abraham Lincoln, no
stultiiy and degrade himself by voting fc
Eben f. Pillsbury, who was ope ef Mr.. Lin
coins most reckless and ribald .defamers9
Answer these questions at the polls on tn
l4th OF Sept. .,. .'-
] The Independent has recently been pub
fishing series Of articles on the supposed eyi
and immoral tendencies of Free Masonry. AL
the old arguments against this time-bonore,
institution have been gone over, but nothinl
II .oll.x L..