The Portland daily press., 1868-08-25
A Specimen Of White Mans Govern.
uIouf.


Hon. Samuel Mckee, of Kentucky, who is
now stumping Maine for Grant and Colfax,
has been called by the Copperhead press of
this State "a carpet-bagger." He was born in
Kentucky and resides at Mt. Sterling. the
place of his nativity. That he is not carpet
bagger is due alone to his personal intrepidity,
for his Rebel neighbors have omitted no meas
ure of intimidation that they could hope
would drive him from the State, houseless and
homeless, a wanderer in strange lands Since
the war one hundred and fifty Union men, who
never fred onthe Stars and Stripes, who stood
by the country when traitors assailed it, have
been driven from the county where Mckee re-
sides by the ex-Confederates of that region.
That is the way they make carpet-baggers in
Kentucky. l.
Many Union men have been murdered in
McKee's own county within few months,
and murdered by returning Rebels.
THERE ARE THREE VOTING PRECINCTS IN
McKEE's COUNTY WHERE NO UNION MAN DARE
SHOW HIS FACE. -.r .-.
When Mckee takes the stump in Kentucky,
though he never carries arms himself his
Democratic hearers reply by presenting revol-
vers, and nothing but the fearless bearing of
the loyal soldier prevents his assassination.
Kentucky has the purest kind of white
mans government. None but Rebels have
even the expectation of attaining official posi-
ton. No loyal man can live in most parts of
the State unless he is possessed of high de-
gree of physical courage. ,.l- -f...
1t is the primary purpose of the Democracy
to make all the Southern States as nearly
like Kentucky as possible. Every Southern
paper and every Southern orator of the Dem
ocratic faith declares that the compulsory ex-
odus of the entire white loyal population
shall be the first result of the election of Sey-
monr and Blair. All the Northern emigrants
who have carried their free labor, their COM
mon school system and their civilization to
correct the barbarisms of slavery will be
forced to return North. 1t will be more haz-
ardous for a Northern man to cross the Ohio
and the Susquehanna than it was while slav-
cry existed. The education of the blacks and
Of the poor whites will be suspended. There
are no germs of progress in the Southern poll
cy, social or political, that can raise the coun-
try from its present half civilized condition.
More than Cimmerian darkness will rest upon
the whole of ten States. They will be like
those inhospitable coasts of Eastern Asia
where strangers are not permitted to land in
safety We do not exaggerate. We appeal to
the copious extracts we have made from
Southern papers and Southern speeches for
the Authorization of our statements. We
shall not have one country but two. All
nope of making homogeneous people will for
the present be abandoned, and that implies a
temporary abandonment of the most essential
principles OF democratic government. What
sort of Republic is that in which man who
changes his residence from one side of a river
to another becomes an alien and an outlaw.
whose head is proper target for the revolver
of the first ruffian he meets? where the muir
der of an an emigrant entities citizen to the
highest civil honors? where, in short, such
an individual as a carpet-bagger in the Demo
cratic sense, is possible? ............
In view OF this condition of affairs not only
is the election of Grant peace. but is the onls
peace. The war is not over till it is possible
or man who believes in free lobor freq
schools, and civil and political eouali.v n
travel from one end of the country to the 9th.
or in safety and without molestation.