Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-08-29

enemy. We do not wish to praise Mr.. Blaine
to the injury Of his competitor hu. Of one
thing VIC are certain from our own personal
observation here in Washington for several
years, and that is, that no Congressional dis
trict in the United States possesses an ADLER
representative than James G. Blaiae, or one
who works harder for or has more hearty
interest in the welfare of his district and
State. This no man Of intelligence, be lie
democrat, liberal or republican. can honestly
deny. l. = high praise va give Mr.. Blaine
when we thus speaS ot MIA IN connection
with tie most iilustriJIs men III our eountry,
it is nevertheless but according to h.in what
is due for The very iurj. t,nt services lie has
rendered TO his adopted l.ty and STATE. When
we consider mat only ahout a dozen and a
halt years since he came from Pennsylvania,
stranger amone you. entirely unknown ana
possessing only energy and ability to fight the
| battle Of life bravely, j; seems almost mir
aclo a. we look back upon that brief period
/ Maine has prospered under republican rule
Is she never prospered before, and we cannot
believe that she will now turn around and
sn,ite the hand of her best friends while she
clasps hands with the party which has become
a hyword and scorn in her borders by its af
| fliation and Identification with all the evils
which have distracted our country. Trust them
not. Let them first show ''works meet for
repentance not mere words of a platform
which bind no body and control none. Let
the Southern people first show their willing
ness to abide by the Constitution as it is, and
the laws of Congress in acts before they ex-
pect the loyal men OF the north to ..clasp
hands across the bloody chasm'' which their
wicked hearts and hands have filed with
murdered Union men and women. Let them
come as did the prodissl son, with meekness
and repentance, and not with pride upon their
brows ond lie upon their lips.
They cannot entirely conceal the cloyen
foot even thus early in the campaign, for the
proposed constitution which has Just been
voted upon in West Virginia among other
things does away with free schools and rem
defs colored men ineligible to Office. That
is specimen OF what would be done in Nil
the Southern States should Mr.. Greeley be
elected, for it is his new found friends who
have framed this constitution and are seeking
to force it upon the people of West Vir-
GINA
In tts great political struggle men become
as nothing compared with the mighty princi-
ppls Which are at stake To select Gen.
Grant ia to perpetuate the noble principles of
which the republican party, and none other
has been the advocate and defender Gen.
Grant is only the servant of the people elect
ell to carry out their will, not policy of his
own. On his side are ranked the greatest of
modem reformera ana philanthr opists-a no.
be army OF men and women-Garrison, Phil
lns, Bpecher, Whittier, Cferritt Smith, Long
fellow, Collier, Hrs. Iivermore, Mrs. Stowe,
and host Of other grand men and women,
too numerous to mention, who have never
wavered in defence Of the right or in their
patriotic devotion to the good Of the country
nifty.
To elect Horace GreeIty ~ matter howev-
eminent of this country back info the hands
Of the democratic leaders who have come up
to lis support with a smile on their lips but
deceit in their hearts. In Sew York it would
place back into power The Tammany Society
and the worst class of politicians. f1r they are
all his ardent supporters.
In the Sonth it wonli riana in power the
men who plunged the nation into fratricidal
strife and who have s.usbornlv refused to the
negro his unqnestionable rights What then
would he left the xolorea people but TO follow
the stirring advice OF Wendell Phillips. 10 Sc
crete their property. organize and arm for de-
Tense:
Let every republican look upon the one
side and then upon the other, let him ponder
well the situation before he casts his ballot:
let hin place himself on the side where
the hosts OF freedoms champions stand. She
surely cannot long hesitate. On the one side
are the illustri0us names above, on the other
are such noted men as Greeley, Sumner.
Chase, Trumbull, Schurz, Banks, Swee ey,
Tweed, & Co. Six great names, head the list
ana what is the reason for their desertion
from the republican party. Chase sought
nomination by the democratic party in 1865,
bnt that party was then not completely
crushed as now and would tolerate only
straight out democrats for leaders. For that
action the Chief Justice righfully incurred
the Sgorn Of the great mass of the republican
party and of Gre eley, Sumner, and Schurz.
What is the difference between Greeley to day
and that OF Chase in 1865. 1t is simply this.
that the former has been successful in securing
a nomination at the hands of the democratic
party anS the latter was unsuccessful the
principle that guided both is the same
Who Will deny that Sumner was forced to
take sides against the friends of his Lifetime
by his personal hostility to the Presiderit
The party which supports Grant TO day is the
same party which supported him in 1868.