Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-05-27
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"A U e u 8 T A.
SATURDAY MORNING. May 81. 1871.

While the Maine Standard appears to en-
dorse the surrender platform of Vallandigham
the Belfast Journal is not at all inclined to
haul down its flag. The Journal objects to
platform making and adds
prominent gentlemen Of the Democratic
party can render to the cause much more &C
ceptable service by lending aid to harmonic
ing and strengthening the ranks of their own
party locally, in readiness for the platform
when it legitimately comes, than by training
their followers in advance to carping criticism
of the declaration of principles when the
battle is at hand. The ideas and principles
upon which the coming contest will be fought.
have been the slow growth of years, and are
not fully matured, however earnestly the
original discoverer' may press his claims"
Soon after the close of the rebellion, a
large number of Southerners who embraced
the 'lost cause" embittered by the result of
the war, determined to emigrate. Two colo
MES were formed-one in Mexico, and the
other in Brazil. The fate of these colonies
is almost identical. After years of suffering
and privation, those who could came back to
the United States, glad to return with life,
From Brazil, many were sent back at the ex
pense of the Government, and few either
ashamed to return, or unwilling to acknowl-
edge their mistake, still drag out miserable
existence in the lands of their penance rather
than adoption. The experience of the Brazil
ian colony has been the hardest and saddest
Most of those who remain in Rio lie Janeiro
are reduced to beggary. One of these emf
grants, who had been an influential man in
the South, Appointment politician, and Mayor
of his native city, sells bad spirits to thieves
in low groggeries.
The Montgomery ala State journal COM
plains of the injustice so frequently done the
native white Union men of the South by
hasty inconsiderate writers, who talk so flip
PANTY about their dishonest motives. 1t says
that their sincerity as class is impeached and
their very existence treated as doubtful and
it adds:
"We know how unjust and cruel these al
lusions are. There are in Montgomery hun
dreds of white men and women; there are
thousands all over the South who are true to
freedom and the Union, holding fast to their
faith with sublime fidelity in the darkest hours
of the civil war, and who are true to-day
There are men and women here, Southern
bred and born, who, for their loyalty, have
suffered loss of property, social position,
friends, and all that made the future bright
save their love for the truth and the approval
of good conscience. There are men among
US to-day of whom the world is not worthy
,wh ha in tba
calender of the worlds heroes and martyrs.
There are others, and thousands, who have
died to bear witness to the TRUTH and who
sleep in unnoted graves all over the South,
consecrating their native soil with the blood
of their martyrdom. Oh, friends and breth
rem of the North, take back these cruel and
careless words. Lash as you will corrupt
place-seekers wherever born, but spare the
sweeping denunciations which class Southern
loyalists with the greedy cormorants of Office.
Here, all around us, are Southern born white
men, loyal and true as the needle to the pole,
shut out from church and social gathering
and business, prescribed and banned by the
unpublished malignants of the rebellion, now
restored to the high places of power, by the
magnanimity of the very party whose adhe-
rents they seek to destroy. We ask for those
men the justice and sympathy which you ac-
cord to the struggling friends of freedom in
Europe and in the islands of the sea. Be-
side their costly sacrifices, chr loyalty is
cheap and poor. We invoke for them the eff
fective and earnest support of all good men
in their heroic and perilous maintenance of
the national faith amid the savage hosts of the
revived rebellion"
Farther accounts from Buenos Ayres con-
firm the first statements of the terrible ravagcs
of the yellow fever. "Up to the time of the