Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-08-13
THE ALLIEs or THE DEMOCRACY.

THE ALLIES or THE DEMOCRACY.
The Maine Standard rejoices at the re-
suit of the North Carolina elections. 1t
brings out its eagles and its flags to do
honor to the announcement of this Dem
ocratic triumph 1t says "We have swept
the State" 1t identifies itself with the
men who have thus defeated the Republic
can party of that State. 1t is fitting that
it should do so, for the men who now tri-
umph in North Carolina are the men for
whose success the Standards party prayed
during the war-they were rebels then,
they are traitors now.
Who are these Conservatives at whose
success the Standard is so rejoiced9 The
Standard claims to represent the Demo-
ocratic party of Maine. Why then, should
it rejoice at the triumph of these Conser-
natives? The answer is plain. These men
who call themselves Conservatives are the
old Wings of the South, and who still have
the old party hatred too strong within
them to allow themselves to be called
Democrats, but they have united with the
Democrats against the Republican party.
The uniting principle is hatred OF the gov
eminent They and their Democratic al
lies were the men who were the tercest
for secession. They were the men who.
when North Carolina hesitated to secede,
dragged her into the war and set price
upon the head of every man who dared be
true to the government. They were the
men who pledged "the last man and the
last dollar to sustain the rebellion. They
were the men who hunted Union men with
.bloodhounds, or shot them down in the
midst of their families. They were the
men who countenanced the starving of
Union soldiers in the horrible prison pens
of Salisbury. They were the men who
did all in their power to prevent the peace
full reconstruction of the State. And to-
day they hate the government and the
people of the North with an intensity only
to be found in traitors fOiled in their trea-
son. These are the men who have just
triumph the Standard is so overjoyed.
Yet who can say that the Standards course
is not consistent? 1t is the organ Of men
who bitterly opposed the war, and who
rejoiced at every defeat of the Union az
mics. 1t is but natural that the organ of
such men should be glad at the political
triumphs of men whose military success
they so ardently desired.
But to the loyal people of the country,
North, South, East and West, the result of
the North Carolina election is thing to
be deeply deplored. 1t is an access to
power of men who are avowed enemies of
the government, and open opponents to
the perpetuity of that Union to preserve
which so many gallant lives have been
lost and so much treasure expended. The
men to whom this election gives seats in
the national councils go there as unrepen-
tant rebels still stained with their treason,
and only awaiting the opportunity to re-
peat their crimes. They go, not to do
their part towards benefiting the nation,
but to injure it. They will do all in their
power to embarrass the government, and
rely upon the cooperation of Northern
Democrats to accomplish their purposes.
That obtained, sufficiently to put them in
power the nation is lost, or will be saved
only ut the fearful cost of another war,
more bloody and protracted than the one
just flushed. Any man who can rejoice
at the triumph of such men as the North
Carolina election places in power,-men
whose only platform is opposition to and
hatred of the government an enemyto
his country He may excuse himself on
the ground that the Northern Democrats
will always be able to control their South
ern allies, but his excuse is worthless, for
the contrary always has been, and always
will be, the case. They may raise the
demon but they cannot control it, and
it will turn and rend them to pieces.
There are many moderate and honest men
who from prejudice are now acting with
the Democrats, linen who are true to the
government. many, even, who fought for
its preservation; to such men the avowal
of the Standard should be proof of the
desperate character of the party with
which they are acting, and warning that
should make them leave it in horror at the
wickedness they have been aiding. To
those who fought for the Union. the skele-
tons of the thirteen thousand Union sol
diers which now lie Wondering in the
trenches at Salisbury should be an insur-
mountabe barrier to union with the Dem
ocratc party, for those soldiers were stare
ed to death by the very men whose triumph
is so grateful to the Standard and its party.
No, no one who truly loves his country
can rejoice ut the result in North Carolina,
for it tells of treason unpublished, and the
triumph of men who hate the Union.
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