Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-09-07

ton of the Standard are possessed of record.
But whether or not, they have record is as
we have before remarked. a matter of too
small importance to the world at large to be
worthy of discussion. If they have records
it is but charitable to hope that they are good
records and such as will in after ages make
their descendants proud of the men who now
edit the Standard. This is a matter that can
only be decided by the descendants themselves,
and to them we refer this rather intricate ques-
ton.
Concerning the assertion of Mr.. Alderman
we have already had our say, and the STAN
dard has not been able to dispute a single
statement that we have made Indeed, facts
that are already on record-many of which
are now before the courts of the United States
sufficiently dsprove the statement of Mr..
Alderman, a statement which was not induced
by facts but by sectional pride. Mr.. Acker-
man is Southern man and wishes to have
the South stand well in the eyes of world.
Hence he makes statement highly creditable
to his sectional affection but entirely contra
dicted by proved facts which cannot be ques-
toned.
The many murders, assassinations and cut
RACES in North Carolina are now part of the
judicial records of the United States, and
completely disprove Mr.. Ackerman's state
ment. The numerous disturbances in Georgia
disprove Mr.. Ackerman's statement. The fact
that President Grant, who made Mr.. Acker-
oil yIotb a is m
send U. S. troops to Georgia to preserve the
lives and property of Union men proves that
the government does not believe in or ap
prove of Mr.. Ackermans statement. The al
most civil war in Arkansas-the murderous
proceedings in Tennessee-the unsettled state
of affairs in Texas-the murders in Mississ-
ippi-all prove that Mr.. Ackerman's statement
is untrue and that the Standards southern
political friends are by no means peaceably
inclined or friendly to those who are true to the
government. Therefore it will be seen that
it is not the journal writer who contradicts
Mr.. Alderman, but that mis- statements are
rendered less than worthless by events whose
character neither he nor all the democratic
writers in the country can successfully mis-
represent or set aside.
Under these circumstances the braggado-
clio of the Standard is harmless and but
serves to prove its own weakness and con-
seriousness of guilt. Its blusterings and vitu
perations but show that it has no arguments
with which to defend It's cause, and that it
relies upon blackguardism to defend measures
which cannot be defended by the arguments
with which the cause of patriotic end hon
orable part can always be supported. That
we are down is new to US. When the Standard
has been unable to controvert any position
taken by us-when it has been able to meet
facts and arguments only by abuse-when ithas
sneaked out of every position it has taken
and lodged every statement we have made
when it has only defended itself by the vilest
abuse ever seen in any paper claiming to be
respectable-we had thought that we were a
long distance from being down"
In conclusion, while declining to enter in
to any blackguardism with the Standard, we
refer it to the facts we have stated and defy
it to disprove any one Of them. Until it is
able to do so it is beaten. I