Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-08-02
LABORING MEN.

Have you read the stump speech in the bel
ly Of Mr.. Greeley's letter of acceptance, ad-
dressed to the Democratic Committee, where
in he insults New England, and seeks to incite
sectional strife and to prejudice the South
against New England? Inhi bid for votes in
North Carolina he untruthfully charges New
England with having kept one Vance out Of
the Senate Of the United States. Here Sena-
tors voted against his right to q seat In the
Senate, so did Senators from the great north
west. All republican Senators voted against
Vance from a sense Of duty, and in obedience
to the laws of the land. 1t was the Senate
who refused Vance admission to a seat in
the country he had no right to seat there.
In his eagerness for votes he tramples ON
truth and justice, and tries to excite one Sec
ton Of the country against another section,
and that too, the section that gave him birth.
Do you know this man whom Mr.. Greeley is
SO anxious to have seat in the Senate? Let
Mr.. Vance speak for himself. Hear him ::
1--WE will carry on this war until we have
filled hell so full of Yankees that their heels
shall stick out of the windows" Do you
want this man in the Senate to make laws
Why did he not charge the Northwest, you
may ask? because he expects nothing of New
England by way Of votes, and because she is
small and because he knew her general intel
ligence, her generously endowed and noble
institutions for the diffusion of knowledge
among all her sons, were distasteful to the
ignorant and unrepentant rebels, whose votes
he needs. 1t is but the echo of the old rebel
cry, "down with New England" 1t is an
Esauic operation, the selling of ones nativity
just cause for alarm, when a candidate for the
great Office SO far forgets honor and duty as
to insult one part OF the country to get votes
in another section of the same country? Let
US take heed in time. Beware of the demo
cratic party in whatever guise or name it may
come. Tammany Hall, led by Tweed, has
struck hands with the Ku- Klux Of the South
and New England interests are the consider
atoms that the democracy of 1872 are willing
to pay for the support of the barbarism Of
AooA, wiz Will say tHat tic hePupilc Is not
again imperiled9 Already the assaults of the
Ku-Klux democracy have commenced. As
they drew their pistols on the 6thMassac husetts
regiment in 1861, so they drew them on Gov.
Hartman at Charlotte in North Carolina July
1872, and denied the right Of free speech and
trampled the constitution of your country
under their feet. Men of New England! The
mask is of. Unless you desire the undoing
of the last twelve years glorious record, vote
against the democratic party. Unless you
desire to pension those who fought to destroy
the country, vote against the democratic party |
Unless you would restore to power Davis, |
Thompson, Semmes, and Saunders, who plot
ted to burn your cities and towns and applied |
to dwellings, occupied by innocent women
and little children, the cursed Greek fire, vote
against the democratic party. In short, if |
you would have the peace and business of to-
day undisturbed, the public credit maintained, |
the honor of the nation saved, your homes |
protected, and the means of education diffused
throughout the whole land then vote against
the democratic party and for Grant and Will |
son, the laborers friends. As New England |
workingmen, having just pride in her noble |
institutions and fair fame, let us resent this |
insult thus offered, by voting solid for the |
great party on whose banners is inscribed this |
motto, Equality for all, of every race, color
and condition before the law"
LABORER.