The Portland daily press., 1868-09-11
Shall the CUfpetb0gge7' Re-
turn /? -f

On the first and fourth pages of this paper
will be found accounts of the condition of af-
fairs in the three States of Virginia, Louisiana
and Georgia. The Virginia letter is hom a
man who for many years has taken an active
and prominent part in the politics of that
State and the Louisiana letter from a gentle
man in whose statements the most implicit re-
lance may be placed Both add to the great
mass of testimony that has previously been
gathered from the whole South to the effect
that the election of Seymour and Blair would
be the signal for the immediate and compulso-
nv exodus of all men of Northern birth from
eleven States.
There are some of the Democratic leaders
within the limits of the late Confederacy who
deny that, if left to themselves, the Southern
people would Cypress the freedmen, but there
are none, so far as we have seen, who even pre-
tend that Northern man would be permitted
to continue his residence among them. They
uniformly threaten proscript;ve measures vary
ing all the way IRON the "war of extermina-
ton" advocated by the Democratic butcher,
Forrest, to the social and political ostracism of
the more prudent politicians like Stephens
This purpose is so tenaciously held and so
generally cherished that even the caution OF
men anxious to conciiate as much as possible
before election-"tM after acknowledgements
for moment conceal it. After election the
Ohio and Susquehannah are to become, in the
vigorous language of Albert Pike, "rivers of
fire which no Northern Hun may cross and
live"
1t is well to understand thoroughly the re-
suits that are sure to flow from giving back
again this government into the hands of the
men who sought to destroy it. Leaving out OF
the account the fate of the four millions OF
"niggers" with whose wrongs and sorrows, the
accumulation of centuries, Copperhead phi.
lanthropy has nothing to do, these a.e some of
the consequences that touch the white race:
The prophesy contained in the motto of the
United States will not be fulfilled. We shall
not be one nation of many States, but two. The
only guaranty of the perpetuity of the Repub-
liza homogeneous people-will become i'm
possible of attainment.
With the carpet-baggers there come from the
| South the common schools. The planters are
| not yet friendly to those great ENTHUSIASTICALLY
| enemies to class distinction that brook no arts
| tocracy but an aristocracy of brains.
The old system of labor continues. The old
system of immense landed estates goes into the
next century. CAPITAL STILL OWNS TOLL, AND
FOR THIS THE NORTHERN LABoRER SUFFERS
EQUALLY WITH HIS SOUTHERN BROTHER
Now if the history of the first halt of the
| century tells to us anything of the last half il
tells us that these things shall not be. 1t were
a sufficiently calamisous circumstance if the
Northern soldier VINO had periled life and limb
for the preservation of his country, could not
upon the return of peace possess property an
establish his home in any part of its broad do
main; it were shame enough if crossing a river
made a citizen of the United States an alien
on his own soil; but that the South should in
close itself with Chinese wall of prejudice
and arrogance and make itself school for in.
culcating ideas antagonistic to democratic in.
| situations, is thing not to be suffered. Grant
has once broken through this wall when de.
Tended by bayonets, and he will level it to the
ground next November.