Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-06-14

excuses of towards" 1t refuses to go on any
new departure, saying: "We have no ambi-
ton to fight in Radical uniforms. We be-
lieve that honesty wins when duplicity loses.
We wish no Republican corks' on which to
float into power, but with the aid of God and
the people we will breast and buffet the pillows
OF Radiealism with true Democratic arms and
hearts. If the old ship goes down in the
storm, let it be with her guns blazing from
every port-hole, and her old constitutional
flag floating in triumph from her tallest mast.
We fight under no piratcal colors."
Another democratic paper, the Lexington
Ky.) Press says of Mr.. Davis "He is still,
a great leader of the popular opinion of the
Southern people. They reverence him for
his purity, dignity and untarnished honor
They admire him for the manlincss, courage
and devotion which have ever been his dis
tinguishng traits, and they love him as one
| chosen by their oppressors, to bear the full
| brunt of persecution, wrong and ignominy,
| as the representative of that cause which was
| to them as just and holy one as ever drew a
| lbation of blood from the heart of gallant
people. But what a commentary upon free
institutions, when man like Jefferson Davis
must stife the utterance of his abhorrent in
| dignation at the outrages inflicted upon his
| fellow citizens and fellow sufferers, lest his
words be make a pretext for further ignominy
and wrong"
The Petersburg (Va.) Index says that the
Il 40 ,,,I
once for all that Mr.. Davis is and will for gen.
erations, if not forever, remain dear to the
Southern people; that while they ask ''but
justice, equal laws, and peace and quiet"
nevertheless they will never believe that they
are traitors, nor that jefferson Davis was or
is a traitor. The Index continues ''The ex-
ertions of three years and all the talent and
all the hate of the North failed to convict him
OF shadow of treason. May our right hand
forget its cunning when we forget that Jeffer-
son Davis is bone of our bone and flesh of our
flesh; that in long career in public office he
ever displayed the purity, bravery and patrio
tism which do honor to the race from which
we spring, and that when the fate of war and
the force of brutal malice placed him in a
dungeon, he was there our representative,
and honored himself and us by an uncomplain-
ing fortitude and a heroic constancy worthy
of Hofer Falkland"
There is another class of democratic pa
, pers in the South which sregret' that jeff
Davis should say anything, not but that he
6 expresses right sentiments, but because his
. words are sure to be distorted at the North
&C., &c. The Montgomery Gala Advertiser
and Mail closes leading article with these
words eff the very natural enthusiasm of
our fellow citizens, who behold in Mr. Davis
the leading statesman in a cause once so dear
to them, and the martyr of cowardly ven
t geance which shocked the world, would testi-
fly their love and respect for him without re-
t quiring addresses or speeches in return, the
| wisdom of such course could not be well
4 questioned"
r Another paper of this class is the New Or
leans Commercial Bulletin, which says it
thinks Davis's speech, however forcible it
was in argument, was unfortunate at this
juncture," and it adds: "Mr. Davis knows
the hearts of the people sml they know his.
1t is not always wise, though to tell the world
what we think or what we feel. His silence
would be more eloquent than words hereafter
1t behooves the South now to exercise all of
her self-control, discretion and temperatures
to insure peaceful and fair participation in
the next general election. Thinking men see
and realize this
The Selma (Ala.) Times and Messenger is
one of those which advise the Southern DEM
ocrats to keep still, to be quiet, as jeff Davis
said, and wait for their allies to do their work
for them. In its issue of May 3lst, it says
''Let us throw aside some of our spirit against
the encroachments of the Constitution, keep
quiet and let those who will have to control
| the voting of the Northern masses, in order
| to secure our triumph, mark the path which
We are to pursue, and dictate the policy
by means of which we are to win. We
are willing to trust them, for we know the
men with whom We are dealing; and the
record of the South is made, and the North
ern democrats know that we will never COM
init ourselves to any policy which will throw
dishonor upon us as people"
TIE SOUTH.
Mr.. Greeley has been quoted as being very
liberal towards the South, willing to forgive