Daily Kennebec journal., 1870-08-27

clallv estimated at about SoO,OOD,ooo.
And besides this the duties on tea, coffee
and sugar have been largely reduced and
the free list increased, SO as to cut Oft some
twenty millions more of taxation. Still
the democrats continue to repeat the false
hood that no burdens have been removed.
THE STANDARD AND ITS PARTY.
The Maine Standard has three quarter
of a column allusion to our article relative
to the course pursued by the Northern
Democracy in exciting anew the rebellious
feelings of the Southern people. We say
..allusion" because the Standards article
contains nothing that entities it to be con-
sidered reply. On the contrary, it care
fully avoids any reference to the subject
tents itself with dissertation upon Car
petbaggers," together with some slangy
attacks upon the writer who has excited
its ire.
The fact that it has chosen to abuse us
we regard with comparative Indifference
for we knew our adversary and expected
nothing better; but that we should be as
sailed with such an amount of slang ex-
pressions Injuries our feelings. We are
not used to such things, having never be-
fore had any experience of the Standards
polished style of conducting an editorial
controversy. We therefore must decline
to undertake to compete with it in slang
and rest content with viewing its emf
ence in an art which would win it the admi-
ration of the fshwves of Billingsgate.
The beginning of the Standards edito-
rial is an expectation. This is eminently
proper and Democratic. For the last ten
years Democracy has been continually
expecting, but its expectations have al
ways failed to be realized. The Stand
ards expectations are somewhat ludicrous.
1t expects to see Republicans "howling
and trembling before the march of the
great and victorious Democratic army :"
Considering the fact that the Democratic
army is by no means great, and not ut all
victorious, the expectations OF the Stand
ard would appear to the unprejudiced
reader to SAVIOR more of political bragga-
docio than of good sense. When we con-
slider that out of thirty-seven states the
Democrats control only etghtit tbs somewhat
difficult to decide where the victories of the
"great victorious Democratic army" have
been won. Under these circumstances we
feel obliged to decline to ''howl' or: trem-
BILE" until we can see something to alarm us.
Until that time the Democrats can contn-
ue to do all the bowling and trembling as
they have done during the last decade.
The next proposition of the Standard
is presented in the following chaste and
elegant style:
Seriously. dagger" don't believe any
of the s,cosh he writes. If he knows any
thing he knows that the people of the
South are as lawabiding and love the
government as well as the people of any
section of the country, and that as few
disturbances occur there as anywhere in
the land If this is not true, then re-
publican reconstruction, for which so
lnucH cTeuu Is tidiiiltu W i'uiNat piCooco
and speakers, is a dead failure. Is Dag
ger" or any other "loil" pap sucker pre-
pared to say this' We rather guess not.
Without pausing to analyze the mean
ing of the word "swosh," we will state
that all that we have written we knoD to
be true and the Standard knows it to be
true for it has been unable to deny our
statements, or to give even plausible
answer to any one of them. We know
that the people of the South do not love
{ the government, Mr. Ackerman to the con-
trary Notwithstanding That they hate
the government is surely no secret for the
| Conservative" papers of the South have
been loud in their avowals of hatred OF
the Union. That the Southern people hate
the government is an established fact and
, one too well known to be denied. That
the Democratic party is responsible fol
t this state of things we have already shown