The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-09-14
Dectaratione of Seymour, Blair,
Northern COpperheads and
Southern Rebels.
Sympathy with Treason !
New Rebellion Threatened,
Loyal Men to be driven from the
South and Negroes DISTINGUISHED.
LET us HAVE WAR !
Is THEIR MOTTO!

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IS THEIR MOTTO.
LIE the enemy be Judged by his own words.
The most of the disloyal and unpatriotic ut
terances which are given below have all ready
been published from time to time in these col
umns, but it is fitting that they should be be-
fore the voters of Maine to-day, in order that
they may see what they endorse by voting for
Pillsbury, of Kingfield, and against the wound
ed hero of Little Round Top.
Seymour said in 1861, in conversation with
Judge Ruggles, THE MONTGOMERY CoNsTIrU-
TION IS BETTER THAN OURS" ar.n r.-o.
To the New York rioters he said :-''My
friends, WISH TO INFORM YOU THAT HAVE
SENT MY AdJUTANT GENERAL TO WASHING
TON TO CONFER WITH THE AUTHORITIES THERE,
AND TO HAVE THIS DRAFT SUSPENDED AND
STOPPED"
In his Fourth of July grafton, a few days
before the riot, he said these words, which,
like those of PiIlsbury at Kingield, were the
! chief Indictment to the outbreak :-Rsmensber
this: that the bloody. and reasonable, and reuo-
tutiondry doctrine of public necessity can be pro-
claimed By mob as ,oeu as by Government.
But it is not Seymour who is looked to as the
leader OF the new revolution Gen. Blair is
regarded as the man who would dictate the
policy of the Government in case of Demo-
cratic success The following extract from
his famous Broadhead letter is the keynote of
the Copperhead campaign:
"There is but one way to restore the Gov
eminent and the Constitution, and that is for
the PRESIDENT ELECT TO DECLARE
THESE ACTS NULL AND VOID, compel
the army to undo its usurpations at the South,
DISPERSE, THE CARPErBAG STATE
GOVERNMENTS, allow the white people to
reorganize their own Governments and elect
Senators and Representatives.
The response to this doctrine has been
prompt from all the coasts of Rebellion. 1t
was incorporated into the Democratic plat
form in obedience to the decree of Gen. Wade
Hampton under circums tances described by
himself as follows: o. ,strr.s --.-.... ....
Gentlemen Were there from the North,
South, East and West, and by all we were met
with extreme cordiality. They said they were
willing to give us everything desired bat ,ce
Of the South must remember that then had a
great fight to make, and it aoold not be policy to
place uyon that platform that aohich aCOuld en-
gender prejudice at the North. They, however,
pledged themselves to do all in their power to
relieve the Southern States, and to restore to
us the Constitution as it had existed 1 said
would take the resolutions if they would allow
me to add but three words, which you will find
embodied in the platform. l added this:-
And zoe declare that the Reconstruction acts are
revolutionary, unconstitutional and uoid.' When
l Proposed that, every single member OF the
committeeman the warmest men in it were
men from the NOrth-came forward and said
THEY WOULD CARRY IT OUT TO THE
END. Having thus pledged themselves, L
feel assured that when the Democratic party
come TO triumph they will show us a remedy
for cur misfortunes in til tr own good time, for
which I am perfectly willing To- WAIT.
were the motives which governed the commit
tee in its formation.
How heartily this declaration of war was
received by the Southern orators and journals
may be gathered from the following extracts:
The Reconstruction acts are null and void,
and shall not stand. The grinning skeletons
that have been set up in our midst as legisla-
tors shall be ousted by Frank Blair, whom our
party has expressly appointed for that pur-
pose-Robert IoOn,bs s-.
In war we drew the sword, and babe them
defiance; in peace we gather up the manhood
OF the South, and raising theIbanner of constitu-
tional equality, and gathering around it the
good men of the North, as well as the South,
we hurl into their teeth the same defiance and
ready for it if you are.-HoaceH Cobb.
Secession is not dead.-Goy. WISE
The true men of the South are ready to rally
once more under the Rebel flag, and try the
issue of the cartridge box.-J. M Ramsay, of
Georgia. " -s- VIZ -
By the election of Seymour and Blair all
that the Confederacy fought for will be won.-
! The country is far too large to remain very
long under one Government, and the day will
come when the South will be independent
Memphis appeal. F-4t
The great Democratic party will rise in its
accompshhdeee 6 dafgSeE IF BEHtus may aid in
rule, ruin and usurpation. mobile Tribune.
There are many Democrats at the North who
believe that the counter revolution will not be
complete without more blood-letting. -Mobile
Register.
The white men of the Southern States have
seen the day when they could use the bullet,
and, if God in His anger permit the necessity
to arise, they will use it again.-RichnsOnd En-
QuSrer.
With the skull and cross bones of the Lost
Cause before us, we will swear that this is q
White Mans Government We must make
the negro understand we are the men we were
when we held him in abject bondage.-Meri-
den Mercury. .lI
Gen. Blair, at the head of the militia, will be
match for Gen. Grant at the head of the
regular army-Gen. Eo1ing .... f..
There might once have been a necessity for
the Rebels of Georgia to submit to the mill
tary authorities, but there is none now. The
Democratic chivalry of the North are march
ing to our rescue.-Georgia Democratic Con-
Uention. ~ - '-a Aaf t#
The doors are wide open, wide enough,
broad enough to receive every white man in
Georgia, unless you should discover him COM
ing to you creeping and crawling under the
Chicago platform. Upon them there should be
no mercy. They have dishonored themselves
and sought to dishonor you. Anathematize
them. Driue them from the pale Of social and
political society Leave them to wallow in
their own mire and fifth. Nobody will envy
them, and if they are never taken out of the
gully until 1 reach forth my hand to take them
up, they will die in their natural element,
Come one and all, and let us snatch the old
banner from the dust, giue it again to the
breeze, and, if need be- to the God Of battles, and
strike one more honest blow for constitutional
liberty-HOtoeH Cobb.
The people were thoroughly aroused, and in
November, the result of 1t acould be more
rapid travelling of carpetbaggers from the South
than was ever before known in the history of
this couhtry.-Wade Hampton. -